With the advent of industrial technologies such as the steam engine and later the telephone and radio, the mass of society could communicate with people and travel to places far from their indigenous locality. Economic industrialization went hand in hand with the rise of the modern nation state, as transportation technologies enable people to experience a wider geographic area as if it was one. National culture was frosted and sustained through the telephone, radio and later the television which allowed a geographically dispersed population to share their collective set of ideals and experiences.