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Chapter 10
Transportation
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Robert Fulton | steam engine; Clermont |
| National Road | busiest road of all at that time; runs east to west |
| Peter Cooper | used steam engine in train; Tom Thumb |
| Henry Ford | made cars cheap enough so people could afford them; Model T |
| Wilbur and Orville Wright | first airplane flight in Kittyhawk,NC |
| fuel | something that is burned to provide power; can cause pollution |
| transportation map | shows routes people can travel from one place to another |
| communicate | pass along feelings, thoughts or information to someone |
| pony express | early mail service made up of a team of daring horseback riders |
| Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph |
| telegraph | used special codes to send messages long distances over wires |
| Alexander Graham Bell | built a working telephone |
| Guglielmo Marconi | invented the wireless telegraph |
| satellites | a spacecraft used to connect radio, telephone and TV communications |
| channel | narrow waterway between two large bodies of water |
| English Channel Tunnel | England and France are connected by railroad under the channel |