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A chart lists a group of facts. Charts help you learn facts
quickly. Read this chart to learn how inventions changed America.
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lnventor
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Alexander
Graham Bell
telephone
Thomas
Edison
electric
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How the Invention
Changed America
Date
People who are
1876
far apart can
talk to one another.
1879
Electric lights are used to
light homes, streets,
schools, and offices.
shoe-making
machine
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Shoes are made
Orville and
Wilbur Wright
airplane
1903
People can travel by airplane.
Henry
assembly line
to make cars
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People travel in cars instead
on horses.
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Traf{rc lights control traffic.
light bulb
Ford
in shoe factories
stores.
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shoe
and sold
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quickly
trafEc light
Garrett
Morgan
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Henry Ford
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The l7right brothers invented the
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