1. Life in the Industrial Age
CH. 22

2. The Industrial Revolution Spreads
Section 1
The Industrial Revolution Spreads

3. The Second Industrial Revolution – 1850-
Where?
Germany**
US**
Japan
Western Europe
** By 1900 both Germany and the US will overtake Great Britain as the largest economies

4. New Methods of Production:
Interchangeable Parts
Assembly Line
Mass Production
Higher Standard of Living

5. Ford’s Assembly Line
Result:
Mass production

6. New Forms of Business Stocks - Corporation - Monopolies - Cartels –
MODERN CAPITALISM!!

7. New Technology Steel replaces iron Petroleum replaces steam and coal
Electricity
Transportation revolutionized: the automobile, eventually airplane
Communications revolutionized: radio, telephone, telegraph. Eventually TV and the internet, satellites

8. Movers and Shakers (1815-1914) Thinkers and Inventors
Ideas, Inventions, Discoveries
Impact
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone,
Marconi
Wireless radio
Henry Ford
Assembly line
Thomas Edison
Light bulb, motion pictures, phonograph
Wright Brothers
airplane

9. Movers and Shakers (1815-1914) Charles Darwin Theory of evolution
Louis Pasteur
‘pasteurization”
Alfred Nobel
dynamite
William Morton
anesthesia
Joseph Lister
antiseptics
Albert Einstein
Atomic theory
Theory of relativity

10. Section 2
The Growth of Cities

11. Symbol of New Industrial City:
1887
Worlds tallest structure until 1930
What new technology made this possible?

12. Improvements in City Life:
Medicine and Population
Link between microbes and disease established
Hygiene improved
Anesthesia and antiseptics introduced
Beautification of Cities
Sidewalks, sewers and skyscrapers
Parks introduced (NY Central Park opened in 1857)
All classes of people
Young people and artists

13. Working Class: Slums, tenements gradually improved
Mutual aid societies formed
Right to vote extended
Rising standard of living

14. The Effects of the Industrial Revolution:
IMMEDIATE EFFECTS
Rise of the factory system
Urbanization
Growth of the urban poor
Poor working conditions
New economic ways of thinking (ex: Socialism)

15. Long Term Effects: Mass production of goods Progress in medical care
Rise of labor unions
Growth of the middle class
Public Education
Increased world trade
Mass media and communication
Continued population growth