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AMSCO: 5.5 How did technology shape economic production during the period from 1750 to 1900? - correct answers Water Transportation - Coal-powered steam engines could be built anywhere and could be used on ships and trains - Engines could be turned on by people when needed and turned off when not - Ocean-going ships and boats on lakes were no longer dependant on winds for power Iron - Coal made possible the mass production of iron Oil - Precision machinery and internal combustion engine - Led to automobile and airplane technologies - Gas became more important than kerosene Communications - Development of electricity led to developments in communication technology - Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone - Thomas Edison designed a refined voice transmitter that made the telephone more practical - Gugliemo Marconi ecperimented with sending and receiving a radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean and the radio became a form of popular mass media Steam Engine - correct answers A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable steam engine in 1712. *James Watt *vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. Steam power was then applied to machinery. James Watt - correct answers Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry ().