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Colt 

Sep 9, 2025

Summary: Lessons 1-5

This week I learned about three inventions. They are the suspension bridge, the fire hydrant, and the locomotive. All were invented sometime within the late 1600s to the early 1800s. These inventions impacted the world by allowing for more efficient transportation and increased safety.

The suspension bridge is a cheap structure that helps with transporting coal, ores, and other things. Other than that, it was built to withstand the weight of heavy materials, like ores. There is a famous example, and it is the golden gate bridge. It was built in the late 1700s to the very early 1800s.

The fire hydrant is something that helps firefighters store and have access to the water through the fire hydrant. Sometime not to long ago there was an earthquake and that started a lot of fires. There was one fire hydrant that worked out of all of the fire hydrants in the entire town, and the firefighters where able to save one block. In fact, the successful hydrant was painted gold once per year after that. The hydrant was invented in the mid-1700s.

The locomotive is a type of train that is steam powered. It runs by burning coal which produces steam that is put under pressure to power the train. Cargo, coal, and useful metals were mostly what was carried on locomotives, or steam powered trains. It was what helped people travel mostly back then. It was invented in the early 1800s. 

All of the inventions that I have covered today were helpful to human kind. I am glad that they where invented. They all helped in different ways, but all of them were based on efficiency.