Technology and Inventions

Difficulty: Average

MONITOR COMPREHENSION

The story of how trains began barreling across the landscape is one of new machines, new inventions, new jobs, and new hopes. Railroad travel started with steam-powered wagons on a tramway and developed into a technology that would change the day-to-day life of Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – and forever connect one coast to another.

Age: preschool – early elementary

Recommended by Joan Kindig, Ed.D.