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Technology and Communication. Alys Maynord and Ann-Houston Campbell. Industrialism. Industrial Revolution . Eighteenth Century. Opened up trade and made it much easier and faster. Half a century altered both life styles and attitudes.
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Technology and Communication AlysMaynord and Ann-Houston Campbell
Industrial Revolution • Eighteenth Century. • Opened up trade and made it much easier and faster. • Half a century altered both life styles and attitudes. • Alsace-Lorraine – industrialization was concentrated before 1850
Technology • Interchangeable parts – if a part breaks it can be replaced • Mid 18th century – power loom • Joseph Marie Jacquard • Produced different patterns of cloth
Technology German industries grew on Ruhr and Saxony French manufactures could create small amounts of high quality luxury items By 1847 a telegraph equipment company was established With production of steel, first skyscraper With skyscrapers, needs for elevators
Technology • 1866 linotype machine • More illustrations in newspapers/magazines • Artist could create drawings, etchings and make multiple copies • 1879- The light bulb
Types of Citizens • Proletariat – Industrial workers • Capitalists- Wealth in money, not land. Income comes from capital. • White collar- Employment that does not involve physical labor
The Telegraph • Allowed stories around the world to be reported much faster • Used cheap paper from wood pulp • Later produced by the Siemens family Telegraph Construction Company (1847) • Siemens brothers • News could travel faster
The Morse Code • Telegrams were sent using Morse code. • This required skilled operators who could translate Morse code. • .... . .-.. .-.. --- • .-- . / .-.. --- ...- . / .--- . ... ..- ...
The Telephone • Invented in 1879 • Invented by Alexander Graham Bell • Some world leaders refused to talk on the telephone • In 1912 there were five telephones in the United States, three in Scandinavia, and two in Germany. • Théâtrophone
Sociology • Created in the 19th century • The “science of society” • It claimed that the society of humans could be studied and understood like any other part of the natural world. • AugusteComete • Émile Durkheim • empiricism • Friedrich Tönnies and Georg Simmel • Max Weber
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Biology • Charles Darwin • Evolution – theory that diverse animal and plant species developed over time through a combination of genetic mutation and environmental influence • Darwin believed in natural selection, the theory that better-adapted species survive (and reproduce) while others are eliminated. • Gregor Mendel • Darwin’s theories had a HUGE impact on the scientific community. • Social Darwinists • Eugenics
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Biology • Anthropology • Olga SemyonovaTian-Shanskaia
Chemistry • Dmitri Mendeleev • Rearranged the Periodic Table of Elements
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Physics • Newtonian Physics • James Clerk Maxwell • Wilhelm Röntgen • Albert Einstein • Special theory of relativity • Max Planck
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