Changing perspectives Ways of Seeing: Changing perspectives

Paleolithic Art 15,000 - 10,000 BC

1850

Population of London 1650 350,000   1700 575,000 1750 650,000 1801 1,096,784 1851 2,651,939 1881 4,713,441 1901 6,506,889 1951 8,196,807 2001 7,172,036

1833 the Factory Act illegal for children under 9 to be employed in textile factories 1834 poor law act - establishing work houses 1918 The Representation of the people act all women over the age of 30 could vote 1928 The Representation of the people act all women over the age of 21 could vote

Theory of evolutioon 1859, telephone 1876, phonograph 1887, filament light bulbs 1879, machine gun 1882, first synthetic fibre 1882, steam turbine 1884, coated photographic paper 1885, electric motor Kodak box camera Dunlop pneumatic tyre 1888, diesel engine 1893, cinematograph and grammar phone 1889, x rays movie camera rocket drive 1895, Wright brothers first powered flight 1903, Einstein's theory of relativity 1905