SummaryThis chapter discusses the age of revolutions in transportation and communication: the application of new machines and energy sources to transportation, and the liberation of communication from the need to transport objects. By the eighteenth century, the quickening of business and political affairs in Western European nations was reflected in improvements in transportation and communication. In North America, the Post Office Act of 1792 inaugurated a new era in communication. The falling cost of shipping freight by sea, air, and train and the lowering of tariffs and other trade barriers since World War II have fueled the increase in world trade, a major aspect of globalization. The evolution of motorcars illustrates the divergence between communication and transportation. As all kinds of information can now be digitized and transmitted through the same computers, cables, and microwaves, the result is a convergence of media and a proliferation of new devices and organizations. Show ReferencesAitken, Hugh. Syntony and Spark: The Origins of Radio. New York: John Wiley, 1976.Google Scholar Aitken, Hugh. The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900–1932. Princeton University Press, 1985.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Butrica, Andrew J. Beyond the Ionosphere: Fifty Years of Satellite Communication. Washington: NASA, 1997.Google Scholar Castells, Manuel. The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society. Oxford University Press, 2001.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Chandler, Alfred D. Inventing the Electronic Century: the Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries. New York: Free Press, 2008.Google Scholar Fischer, Claude. America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.Google Scholar Flink, James J. The Automobile Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.Google Scholar Haws, Duncan. Ships and the Sea. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1975.Google Scholar Headrick, Daniel R. Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850–1940. Oxford University Press, 1988.Google Scholar Headrick, Daniel R. The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851–1945. Oxford University Press, 1991.Google Scholar Headrick, Daniel R. When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700–1850. Oxford University Press, 2000.Google Scholar Holzmann, Gerald R. and Pehrson, Bjorn. The Early History of Data Networks. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995.Google Scholar John, Richard R. Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar John, Richard R. Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.Google Scholar Levinson, Mark. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton University Press, 2006.Google Scholar Lubar, Steven. InfoCulture: The Smithsonian Book of Information Age Invention. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.Google Scholar Robinson, Howard. The British Post Office: A History. Princeton University Press, 1948.Google Scholar Sachs, Wolfgang. For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back at the History of Our Desires, translated by Don Reneau. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.Google Scholar Thompson, Robert L. Wiring a Continent: The History of the Telegraph Industry in the United States, 1832–1866. Princeton University Press, 1947.Google Scholar White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. New York: Norton, 2011.Google Scholar What was the main mode of transportation in 20th century?The 1900s was all about that horse-and-carriage travel life. Horse-drawn carriages were the most popular mode of transport, as it was before cars came onto the scene.
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What developments were made in the field of transport and communication?May 1, 1450. Invention of Caravel Boat. ... . May 1, 1773. Comittes of Correspondence. ... . Apr 29, 1776. Creation of original War Submarine. ... . Apr 29, 1783. First Hot-Air Balloons are launched. ... . May 1, 1789. Freedom of Speech. ... . May 2, 1795. Lancaster Turnpike. ... . Apr 29, 1801. Steam Locomotive Automobiles are tested. ... . Apr 29, 1804.. Is the fastest way of transport developed in the early 20th century?Air Transport is the fastest means of transport formulated in the early twentieth century. Before this was formulated, trade was held on using the land or the sea route.
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