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Assignment - Technologies that Changed NYC Between 1820 and 1880 Essay
Description - write an essay - Between 1820 and 1880 technology changed the face of New York City. Listed below are some of these great technological changes and the people who made these changes. Each list is separate, with no connection between people and changes.
Choose any 5 of them from either one or both columns and write:
a) What the technology change was (or what change the person originated).
b) How this technology had a positive or negative effect on New York City.
Technological Changes/people: (you are welcome to research your choices in additional sites):
Robert Fulton, New York and Harlem Railroad, Peter Cooper, Horse cars, Isaac Singer, Gramacy Park and/or Chelsea Alexander T Stewart, 5th Avenue, Samuel Morse, Croton Aqueduct, Harper and Brothers, Clipper ship, Nathaniel Currier and James Ives, New York and Erie railroad, P.T. Barnum, American Express and/or Wells Fargo, Herman Melville, Foundries, Walt Whitman, Crystal Palace, Herald newspaper.