Automobiles,
trucks,
telephones,
airplanes and
other high-speed
modes of
transportation and
communication
dramatically
changed the
ways and places
in which
Minnesotans
lived, worked
and recreated.
Other facets of
individual and
corporate life
also underwent
profound
changes.
Machines played
larger roles in
economic
production and
leisure activities.
Larger machines
that did more
work completely
altered the way
in which farmers
raised crops and
livestock, loggers
harvested trees,
miners removed
ores, factory
workers made
products, and
service people
performed their
jobs. The number
and range of
activities in which
they could spend
their non-working
hours multiplied.
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Impact of Technology
Telephone wall set, ca. 1894
Minnesota Historical Society
Wireless telegraph station of Irwin M. Ellestad,
Lanesboro, Minnesota, 1914-1915
Minnesota Historical Society
Making neon tube letters, Minneapolis, January 12, 1937
Minnesota Historical Society
Apollo astronauts got their bearings in space from the flight
director attitude indicator, being assembled at Honeywell’s
Aerospace Division, Minneapolis, ca. 1968.
Honeywell and Minnesota Historical Society
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