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Bicycles!
The inventor of the bicycle is the English man John Kemp Starley who made the four wheeled bicycle in the 1870s. The two wheeled human bicycle was made by German aristocrat and inventor named Karl Von Drais, he made the two wheeled bicycle in the year 1813. -
Bicycles Part 2!
The first bicycle to appear in Canada was usually the "two wheel boneshaker" so named because of the uncharitable ride afforded by its heavy wooden or iron on unpaved roads. This machine had pedals attached directly to the front wheel appeared in the maritimes in 1866. Bicycles were popular in the 1890s and they grew popular as woman would become ease and more independent, woman started to wear short skirts. -
Telegraph!
The technology of the telegraph was conceived by Northern American Samuel Morse in 1837, and in England by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. Morse devised a meaning of transmitting in coded messages electrically by opening and closing electric circuits. There were dots that corresponded with the letter of the alphabet. The first telegraph line was established in between Baltimore and Washington, with the inaugural message transmitted on May 24th 1844. -
Telegraph Part 2!
This gave a chance for people between Latin America or Canada West to communicate in dots that corresponded with the alphabet. -
Marco Polo!
The Marco Polo was a sailing ship of 1625 tons, launched April 1851.
Marco Polo was launched from the building yard of James Smith, Courtney Bay, New Brunswick as New Brunswick was known for its ship building in the mid 1800s. Marco Polo was known as the fastest ship In the world, in 1852 it made a record breaking a trip to Australia. After one hundred years the ship was built it sank, people decided to start making movies and songs about the ship. -
Marco Polo Part 2!
The ship was built on April 18th 1851. The ship is named after the venetian traveller (relating to Italy, Venice) who discovered the coast of Malabar. -
Horse Drawn Cram Cars!
Montreal and Toronto were the first cities with horse drawn cram cars in Canada, using systems incorporated by Alexander Easton of Philadelphia in 1861. In spite of the need to substitute sleighs for cars in the winter both operations did well. Toronto had 109km of track, 361 trams and 100 sleighs at its peak. Montreal had an extended network of 40km track, using 150 trams, 104 sleighs and 49 horse omnibuses. This was used as transportation for workers and business men to get to work -
Street Cars!
As technology matured from horse drawn cram cars the typical system had mounted flush with the pavement. Current collection by trolley, and overhead wires supported poles often used for lighting cost for installation and operation were low, and street car services spread wildly. Windsor Ontario, Canada installed the first Canadian electric cram system in 1886. Followed by Vancouver in 1890, Winnipeg in 1891, Montreal Hamilton and Toronto in 1892, and so on. -
Street Cars 2!
By WW1 48 Canadian cities and towns boosted streetcar systems. This was also used for transportation to get to work far away from where business owners and workers lived. Frank Sprague installed a complete system of electric streetcars in Richmond, Virginia in 1888. The cable car was the invention by Andrew Hallidie, this was introduced in San Francisco on Sacramento and Clay Streets in 1873 in the state now called California, the first cable car was invented on January 17th 1861. -
Steam Carriage!
In Canada Henry Seth Taylor built the first horseless carriage in the year of 1867 in Stanstead Quebec, Canada. Taylor’s steam pleasure carriage was considered a novelty but other Canadian Pioneers built steam electric and gasoline powered cars in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He had crafted the carriages with two cylinder engines and a driving mechanism with a local blacksmith. -
Steam Carrriage Part 2!
This allowed business men to afford a carriage without training or controlling the horses of where to go, workers somehow might’ve afforded the carriage although their yearly income in 1905 was $375 and in 1903 workers got payed $32 a month. -
Oil Drip Cup Part 2!
When Elijah returned upon Canada he had difficulty finding a job, and instead found work in Ypsilanti Michigan, U.S.A as a fireman for the "Michigan Central Railroad". Steam engines constantly had engine problems as industrial lubricant (an oil minimizing friction especially in an engine) would wear it off. Locomotives had to stop fireman such as Elijah tended to the engine. -
Oil Drip Cup!
Elijah McCoy engineer and inventor was born May 2nd 1844 In Colchester, Canada West also now known as Ontario, Elijah died 1929 in Detroit Michigan, United States. Elijah’s parents escaped enslavement in Kentucky, U.S.A in the underground railroad to Upper Canada in 1837 following brief military service. George McCoy was awarded 160 acres of land where Elijah was raised in Colchester township. At the age of 15 Elijah left to Edinburgh, Scotland where he apprenticed as a mechanical engineer. -
Oil Drip Cup Part 3!
After 6 years on the job Elijah developed a device commonly known as "oil drip cup" which administrated a regulated amount of lubricant into the engine through a spigot. On July 23rd 1872 Elijah filled his first patent on the "drip cup", registered under the title “Improvement for lubricators in steam engines”. This invention spread rapidly through the railroad business allowing locomotives to work without interruption. -
Telephone!
In 1876 the telephone was created by Alexander Graham Bell, milestones in the quest to communicate over great distances with reliability, speed, and accuracy. The telephone would allow no pigeon travel, and human travel of messages, not even music to communicate. This allowed long distant families to communicate over the telephone. -
Four Stroke Engine!
While steam and electric cars offered many advantages, the internal combustion engine dominated (Controlled the car). In 1876 Nikolaus A. Otto a German engineer produced the most important of these, his four stroke engine became the foundation of the industry. Two other Germans Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach worked together, at the end of the 19th century they produced a smaller, higher speed version of Otto’s engine. -
Central Frame Structure Of A Car!
In 1891 French engineer Emile Levassor had conceived the modern car’s central frame structure one suitable to carrying an engine. By adding pneumatic tires, most of the obstacles to the beginning of motoring had at this point been removed. This allowed engines to be held inside the frame of a car, this gave the car stability and more storage usage.
