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=New Inventions= In the 1800's inventions such as the telephone and the lightbulb spurred economic development. New technology increased the nations productivity and improved transportation and communications networks. New inventions also resulted in new industries which in turn produced more wealth jobs. Alexendar Graham Bell suggested the idea of the telephone ti his assistant, Thomas Watson. In 1867b he succeded he placed a call and it worked. Thomas Edison had a labatory in Menlo Park, New Jersey in 1877 with the invention of the phonograph. Two years later he invented the lightbulb.