The Industrial Age

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The Industrial Age

• The Industrial Revolutions effects on science,
  communication, transportation, medicine,
  education, culture, and the arts.

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Electricity

• Michael Faraday
• Developed the dynamoelectric generator
• Powered by steam engine
• Used to power machines

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Advances in Technology
Thomas Edison

• Incandescent light bulb
• 1879
• (lasted 2 days)
• Phonograph
• Kinetoscope
• Menlo Park Lab
• 1000 patents

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Communications

• Marconis radio
• Wireless
• Electromagnetic waves
• Ship to ship
• Ship to shore

• Bells telephone

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Internal Combustion Engine
Wright Brothers

• 1903
• First successful powered airplane flight (12
  seconds)
• aerodynamics

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The Automobile
Benz
Ford
First gasoline-driven auto
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Emigration

• Move to industrialized cities for jobs
• Travel was easier and safer
• Oppression (Armenian genocide by Muslims)
• Discrimination (Jews Slavs
• Economic hardship (Irish Potato Famine)
• Settle territories

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Shift to Cities
Cities are forced to deal with crowed streets,
sanitation issues, garbage, crime, etc.
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Move to the Suburbs
Public transportation, (like trolleys and trains)
and automobiles make it possible.
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Sanitation
Sewer systems and flushing toilets.
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Atomic Theory
John Dalton develops the theory.
Mendeleyevs classification of elements.
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Lamarcks Evolution
Living things changed their form due to their
environment
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Darwin
Survival of the FittestNatural Selection
Tree of lifeall things originate from one common
ancestorhumans evolved from animals.
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Effects of Darwinism

• Separated science and religion
• Social Darwinism--natural selection applied to
  society
• Used as an argument for the necessity of
  poverty
• Racism
• Genocide/Euthanasia (intentional killing of a
  dependent human being for their alleged benefit)
• Eugenics (genetically engineering a better human)

Holocaust
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Fight Against Disease
Pasteurization heating liquids to prevent
bacteria and fermentation
Louis Pasteur
Anthrax and rabies vaccines
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Other medical developments

• Edward Jenner
• Smallpox vaccine
• 1796
• Robert Koch
• Discovers germs that cause tuberculosis Asiatic
  cholera
• 1882
• Aspirin Sulfa drugs
• Alexander Fleming
• Penicillin
• 1928

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Bacterial Diseases
Cholera
Typhoid/ Salmonella
Walter Reed
Yellow Fever
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Antiseptics Anesthesia

• Joseph Lister
• publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice
  of Surgery

• Long Morton
• "Gentlemen, this is no humbug.
• Ether is used as anesthesia

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Florence Nightingale

• Crimean War
• The very first requirement in a hospital is that
  it should do the sick no harm.
• Founded the worlds first nursing school.

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Diet and Refrigeration
The first electric refrigerators.
Children with rickets (caused by a vitamin D
deficiency).
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• How do the advancements in medicine impact
  society?

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Public Education

• Universal
• Compulsory
• Need for literate workers

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Womens Education

• Womens education movement is linked to the
  womens suffrage (vote) movement.

Emily Davies womens education advocate
suffragette.
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Leisure Urban Renewal
theatre
Cricket
basketball
Public Parks
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War Correspondent Matthew Brady
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Capturing Poverty
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Social Gospel Movement
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Realism

• Artists dealt with reality
• Observe record
• Detailed ordinary life
• Social and economic themes
• Rejected the exotic and emotional
• Dismissed as ugly provocative crude by many

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Regionalism
Everyday life in a certain region.
Mark Twain
Thomas Hart Benton a mural made for a Kansas
City department store.
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Naturalists
Focused on the ugly sordid parts of life.
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Tolstoy
George Eliot
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Impressionists
Tried to give vivid impressions of people and
places, paying close attention to light and color.
Monet Renoir
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Georges-Pierre Seurat A Sunday Afternoon on the
Isle of La Grande Jatte 1886
Edgar Degas The Rehearsal Onstage 1874
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Art for arts sake
Did not require art to have purpose or even
meaning. Art becomes more abstract.
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Radioactivity and X-rays
Wilhelm Rontgen X-ray
Curies Radioactivity