The Ts also Have It

Taxi   
In 1640 Paris, Nicolas Sauvage offered horse-drawn carriages and drivers for hire.

Two hundred years later 1891 Germany, Wilhelm Bruhn invented the taximeter. It is an instrument which measures the distance a vehicle travels, and allows an accurate fare to be determined.

On 16 June 1897 Friedrich Greiner started the Daimler Victoria taxi fleet. He was a Stuttgart entrepreneur who started the world's first motorized taxi company.

In 1907 Harry Allen start a taxicab service in New York and repainted them all yellow to be visible from a distance.

Telephone   
In the 1870s, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically.

Both men registered their designs at the patent office within hours of each other. Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first. Elisha Gray entered into a legal battle over the invention of the telephone. Bell won and the rest was history.

Television  
Television was not invented by a single inventor. In 1831 Joseph Henry and Michael Faraday tinkered with electromagnetism and began the era of electronic communication.

The title as to who was the inventor of modern television narrows down to Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American emplyee of Westinghouse, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a farm boy from the state of Utah.

In 1930 American Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial.

Trains
Rails called wagonways were being used in Germany as early as 1550.

By 1776, iron had replaced the wood in the rails. Wagonways evolved into tramways and spread thoughout Europe. Horses still provided the pulling power.

In 1825 George Stephenson built the locomotion for the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England, which was the first steam railway in the world.

The American rail network began with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828.