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Chapter 26 Section 4 Study 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?
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