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Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution • Technology – Steel • Better than iron • New techniques made it easier and cheaper to produce – Chemistry • Alfred Nobel • Dynamite

Technology • Electricity – Replaces steam as power source – Electric motor, light bulb • Production – Interchangeable parts • Identical components that could be used in place of one another – Assembly line

Technology • Travel – Automobile • Benz, Daimler, Ford – Airplane • Orville and Wilbur Wright • Communication – Telegraph, phone, radio

Medicine • Population Increase • Medical breakthroughs – Louis Pasteur • Hospital Care – Anesthetics, better hygiene

Society • Social Classes – Bigger separation between classes • Middle class became more powerful – Home life • Men worked, women raised the family • Middle and upper class only

Society • Women’s Rights – Women’s groups started protesting for rights • Suffrage, slavery, temperance movement • Education – More children were entering schools – Standards had to be better – Public schools set up to provide basic information

Science • Atomic Theory – Each element is made up of atoms • Periodic table • Charles Darwin – On the Origin of Species – Survival of the fittest • Social Darwinism • Racism

Art • Romanticism – Imagination, freedom, and emotion • Victor Hugo, Beethoven • Realism – Represented the world as it was • Dickens, Les Miserables

Art • Photography • Impressionism – Monet • Postimpressionists – Van Gogh