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Chapter 26 Section 4
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19th Century Progress
It's wasn't just new stuff…
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…it was that the pace of change sped up
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Gasoline & internal combustion engine
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Electricity & electric generators in factories
Key Inventors & Inventions
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Thomas Edison:
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Alexander Graham Bell
& the phonograph
– Using electricity to transmit sound
 Telephone, 1876
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Guglielmo Marconi & the "wireless," 1895
– Morse Code developed as international code
cars
1st automobile made in Germany
 Henry Ford & the Model T, 1908
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– Interchangeable parts
– Assembly line
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Cars transformed life, esp. in U.S.
– Where people could live, "suburbs"
– Gas stations, gas refineries, etc.
– Traffic laws
– Motor hotels = "motels"
"mass culture"
Increased literacy
 Improvements in communication
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– e.g. Radio allowed for nationwide broadcasts
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Increased leisure time for the working
class, middle class
– "the weekend"
– 40-hour week
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Motion pictures, spectator sports, etc.
Medicine & Science
Germ theory, 1850s
 Louis Pasteur & bacteria
 Joseph Lister, 1865
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– Antiseptics
– Cleanliness
– Improved city planning & sanitation
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Diseases
– Vaccines & cures
Medicine & Science, cont'd
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Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
– Theory of evolution
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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
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Marie & Pierre Curie
– radioactivity
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Ernest Rutherford & Albert Einstein
– Physics
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Psychology
– Pavlov
– Freud
Take Away Points to Ponder
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What was "mass" about the mass culture?
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Why did Pavlov's & Freud's ideas challenge
the ideas of the Enlightenment?
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Why might there have been a general
feeling of optimism at the dawn of the
20th century?