Though the Deaths were Great, was the Revolution Worth it?

The benefits of new technology in this world would not be around right now if not for the industrial revolution. Though there was some cost that we had to pay for the revolution it was still so important to our economy and society today.  First, the light bulb is an invention that was patented by Thomas Edison and his team. This invention paved the future for science and future design. According to The Wizard of Menlo Park, it talked about how the electric light began to replace the gaslight and started the use of the electric car. With this information, you can conclude that the light bulb helped our future by starting the thought of new inventions like the refrigerator. This also shows that the lightbulb was an important design that reduced the amount of pollution in the air. It deducted the pollution in the air because the gas light polluted homes and the streets. Sometimes causing harm. Likewise, Edison and his team tried 1,000 ways to make the light bulb. Other inventors would have most likely given up after 1,000 tries. In this 21st century, we would probably be in the dark ages if there was no light bulb. Likewise, the typewriter was an important economic invention in the late 1800s. It gave us the idea for the printer and the computer which are both big parts of our economy and society today. The computer plays a big role in our 21st communication. It helps us communicate, write, and learn. In the poster about typewriters, it says that the Remington Typewriter was the best typewriter and the most durable and reliable. This shows that in the industrial revolution there was an incline in how sophisticated the technology was. The typewriter along with the invention of energy also helped with the inventions of texting and other forms of communication. Finally, the invention of the trolley car was a big part of our economy and how some people live today. For example in California, a numerous amount of people use trolley cars to get around because there are so many steep hills. From an excerpt from an interview with Harry Reece, it says, how Uncle Bill, a very wise and smart man, did not even know how trolley’s work. This shows that the industrial revolution was so fast paced that even brainy men did not even know how something worked. The trolley car is very common in some places and if it were to never be invented then some people would not be able to get around easily. In conclusion, I think that the industrial revolution came with prices but was still so revolutionary.