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  • The first electric light was so dim that a candle was needed to see its socket.
  • One of the first steamboats took 32 hours to chug its way from New York to Albany, a distance of 150 miles.
  • Wilbur and Orville Wright’s first airplane flight lasted only 12 seconds.
  • And the first automobiles traveled 2 to 4 miles per hour and broke down often. Carriages would pass them with their passengers shouting, “Get a horse!”

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