Chapter 26 Section 4 Study Guide

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Chapter 26 Section 4Study Guide

• 19th Century Progress

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It's wasn't just new stuff

• it was that the pace of change sped up
• Gasoline internal combustion engine
• Electricity electric generators in factories

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Key Inventors Inventions

• Thomas Edison the phonograph
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Using electricity to transmit sound
• Telephone, 1876
• Guglielmo Marconi the "wireless," 1895
• Morse Code developed as international code

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cars

• 1st automobile made in Germany
• Henry Ford the Model T, 1908
• Interchangeable parts
• Assembly line
• Cars transformed life, esp. in U.S.
• Where people could live, "suburbs"
• Gas stations, gas refineries, etc.
• Traffic laws
• Motor hotels "motels"

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"mass culture"

• Increased literacy
• Improvements in communication
• e.g. Radio allowed for nationwide broadcasts
• Increased leisure time for the working class,
  middle class
• "the weekend"
• 40-hour week
• Motion pictures, spectator sports, etc.

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Medicine Science

• Germ theory, 1850s
• Louis Pasteur bacteria
• Joseph Lister, 1865
• Antiseptics
• Cleanliness
• Improved city planning sanitation
• Diseases
• Vaccines cures

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Medicine Science, cont'd

• Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
• Theory of evolution
• Gregor Mendel his peas
• Inherited traits, etc.
• John Dalton atoms, atomic theory
• Dmitri Mendeleev the Periodic Table

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Medicine Science, cont'd

• Marie Pierre Curie
• radioactivity
• Ernest Rutherford Albert Einstein
• Physics
• Psychology
• Pavlov
• Freud

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Take Away Points to Ponder

• What was "mass" about the mass culture?
• Why did Pavlov's Freud's ideas challenge the
  ideas of the Enlightenment?
• Why might there have been a general feeling of
  optimism at the dawn of the 20th century?