Class 10 History Chapter 3 notes will tell you that technology played a very crucial role in the making of the Global World. Some of the significant inventions made throughout this period were Railways, Steamships and the Telegraph etc. Those inventions transformed the world and heralded the onset of the nineteenth century. At the same time society, politics and economy were driven by technology. New investments and development were made by colonisation. Food was transferred in a faster way using quicker railways, lighter wagons and huge ships. It was a practice to ship the animals from America to Europe till the 1870s.