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What are the three most important innovations, or inventions, of your lifetime?

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Now, write a one- or two-sentence description explaining how each innovation has affected or changed your life.

“The _______ has changed my life by…”

Finally, read at least one of your sentences to a partner. You must read the entire sentence!

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SEWING MACHINE

AIRPLANE

TELEPHONE

BESSEMERSTEELPROCESS

TRANSCONTINENTAL

RAILROAD

PHONOGRAPH

INDUSTRIALIZATION

LIGHT BULB

SEWING MACHINE

AIRPLANE

TELEPHONE

BESSEMERSTEELPROCESS

TRANSCONTINENTAL

RAILROAD

PHONOGRAPH

PUT THEM IN A FLOW MAP

LIGHT BULB

Industrial Revolution

Connected at

Promontory Point, Utah

Orville & Wilbur Wright

Faster & Cheaper

Henry Bessemer

Alexander Graham

Bell

Railroad-Phones-CanalsCreate national market

for goods

Thomas Edison

Longer workday

1903Airplane

1846Sewing

Machine

1855Bessemer

Steel Process

1869Trans-

continental Railroad

1876Telephone

1877Phonograph

1879Light-bulb

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The Railroad Connecting the Coasts

Shred 1

Shred 2

Shred 3

1918

1918