170 likes | 317 Views
Read page 396 and answer the following questions: How have leisure time activities changed over the years? What type of leisure activities do people engage in now? Fifty years ago? 100 years ago?
E N D
Read page 396 and answer the following questions: • How have leisure time activities changed over the years? • What type of leisure activities do people engage in now? Fifty years ago? 100 years ago? • How much time do students spend on leisure activities? How much time did people spend on leisure activities in the early 1900’s? Bell Ringer
Thomas Edison • Thomas Edison patents over 1,000 inventions in research laboratory • Most notable the light bulb and phonograph
Alexander graham bell • In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone
Ford Sparks the Automobile Industry • In 1880s, Germans invent first automobile • Henry Ford lowers cost with assembly line—one task per worker
The Wright Brothers Fly • In 1903, Wright brothers develop first working airplane
Socialism • The desire to improve working and living conditions for industrial workers led to creation of socialist political parties • Karl Marx — Germanjournalist proposes a radical socialism, Marxism • Friedrich Engels—German whose father owns a Manchester textile mill • Together they wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848