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The art of invention pushes the limits for business owners and customers .
A ride in Cape Town.
The Skyscraper
With Chicago real estate prices climbing, the Windy City's business district had nowhere to go but up — and architect William Le Baron Jenney obliged with the Home Insurance Building. The 138-foot-tall tower had 10 floors supported by a weight-dispersing steel skeleton, an innovation so radical civic leaders briefly halted construction in order to satisfy skeptics of its safety
The telephone
Less than a decade after Alexander Graham Bell leaned toward his experimental phone and uttered the famous phrase "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you" to his assistant down the hall, the inventor was poised to extend the gadget's calling circle across the continent.
The Telegraph
It is impossible for those of us today to imagine life without our cell phones, but before cell phones were invented there was another huge milestone in the invention of the telegraph.
The telegraph was the fastest form of communication at that time and seen as remarkable. It could travel with a message at the speed of light. Samuel Morse was one developer of the telegraph and his “Morse code” of dots and dashes is still used today.
