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Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840-1860. Chapter 11. Technology. The Antebellum Period New Inventions 1840-1860 The American Standard of Living New Manufacturing techniques. New Inventions. John Deere (1837) Cyrus McCormick (1847) Wheat Wasteful farming New Fertilizer.
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Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840-1860 Chapter 11
Technology The Antebellum Period New Inventions 1840-1860 The American Standard of Living New Manufacturing techniques
New Inventions John Deere (1837) Cyrus McCormick (1847) Wheat Wasteful farming New Fertilizer
New Inventions Eli Whitney and Interchangeable parts Mass Production Samuel Colt Elias Howe Samuel F.B. Morse
The Railroad Conquering Time 1860 Connecting to the Midwest Shipping America’s First Big Business Wall Street Time Zones (1883)
Technology Technology affects the price of goods City Development Job opportunities Women and Children
Technology Medicine Popular Health Fads Row Houses Tenements Frontier Log Cabins
Technology Conveniences and Inconveniences Heating, cooking, and diets Coal Burning Out of season foods Salt preservation Water lines
Disease and Health Diseases Municipal Boards of Health The view of the medical profession Anesthetics Surgery techniques William T.G. Morton
Health Fads Hydropathy Grahamites Phrenology
Newspapers James Gordon Bennett The New York World Penny Papers Paper Boys Human Interest Stories
The Antebellum Period Entertainment Theater Minstrel Shows P.T. Barnum
Literature American Writing Washington Irving Harriet Beecher Stowe Ralph Waldo Emerson Transcendentalism Henry David Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”