INVENTIONS IN AMERICA’S GROWTH 1850-1910 PHONOGRAPH, TELEPHONE, LIGHT BULB PH24864

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website In this 1956 film by Coronet Instructional Films, INVENTIONS IN AMERICA’S GROWTH, the recollections of Scientific America editor Jonathan Sharpe tell about the Age of Miracles in America. From 1850-1910, innovation and invention shaped American life in dramatic ways. We can follow some of the advances in farming (horse drawn reaper 1:40), see Edison’s phonograph (:14), and the expansion of steel for daily life (street car rails at 2:54 and the high wheeled steel bicycle at 2:40). There are shots of the cover of Scientific America magazine (3:08 and 7:24). Inventors from this era are featured: Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone he displayed at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition (4:07), interior and exterior shots of Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory (5:12), the Wright Brother’s Cycle Company shop (7:30), early wind tunnel (7:42) and planes, with some actual footage t