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The World of Technology

The world of technology was changing or about to change. The first rigid dirigible was flown successfully in Berlin in 1896. The Wright Brothers in 1898 were still designing a glider. It would not be until five years later that they would achieve powered flight.

In 1894, at Oxford University, Oliver Lodge and Alexander Muirhead sent a radio pulses between two buildings. In 1897 Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, managed to send Morse Code over a distance of almost four miles on the Salisbury Plains in England. By 1898, at 23, opened a factory to produce wireless telegraphs.

Automobiles were just coming on to the scene. Ford had yet to produce its first car but in 1898, Louis Renault produced his first cars in France. He sold 13 of them that year. 1898 was the year of an important new feature for automobiles. It is hard to know if Rolls, Panhard, Benz or Renault was the first manufacturer to install a steering wheel on a car that year.