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Technology Ragtime
Ragtime
Technology
Orville Wright flew the airplane the "Flyer" for 12-seconds on December 17, 1903. This was the first successful piloted flight in history.
Houdini bought an expensive french plane and enjoyed piloting. He was considered a pioneer of piloting.
1908
Henry Ford: Invented the first car
in Buffalo, New York. Also the assembly line which dramatically helped the progressive period. The mass production of items helped to revolutionize America. He was a prominent character in Ragtime.
In the book Ragtime J.P. Morgan wanted to go to Egypt with Ford, but Ford declined. Though Ford was wealthy, he was more relaxed than the other characters in the novel.
1915
1850-1930
Thomas Edison invented the first electric lightbulb, the phonograph and motion picture camera; his inventions helped the turn of the century lifestyles, the same time period that was in Ragtime.
bombs
Mother's Younger Brother becomes involved with Coalhouse Walkers group of followers, and becomes one of their main assets as he can build bombs and create other explosives. He is trained in Fathers fireworks shop, but leaves home to join the group and help them make explosives. He is probably the mastermind behind the bombs used to blow up the firestations, and likely helps set up and wire the dynamite that lines J. P. Morgans library. Explosives had not commonly been used to commit crimes and to threaten establishments for long before this, and its an example of technology that forever changed the way crime could be commited.
the end
erin shoemaker and meredith gaylor
1903
Although it didn't play a major role in the novel, the U-boat is a type of submarine that torpedoed and sunk the boat Father was on, the Lusitania, when he was traveling to London. It played a major part in both World Wars.