Group 6: chapter 8
Life at the turn of the century
Science and technological transportation
- horse drawn trolleys provided the main form of transportation and pollution
-some of these streetcars ran above and below ground to avoid the crowded streets in the 1890's
-henry ford intorduced his model t car in the year of 1908
-bicycles became very popular
-paved streets came about late in the century
Model T ford
-created by the ford motor company
-regarded as the first affordable automobile
-from 1909 to 1927 they produced more than 15million
- the first production model t ford was assembled at the piquette avenue plant in Detroit Michigan.
the assembly line.
-manufacturing process in which individual parts of a larger product are put together in a specific order
-implemented in 1913
-a new model t was produced every 24 seconds
-price dropped from 850 to 300
-advanced mass production decreased time.
-enabled ford to pay his workers higher wages
power controlled airplane
-invented in 1903
-orville and wilbur wright
-first plane flew 121 inches in 12 seconds
-further improved with regards to saftey, power, and control
-october 1905 the aircraft could maintain a sustainable flight
- could land with pilot safe and craft undamaged
buildings
- because of the lack of space, buildings had to bee build up instead of out.
-4 to 6 stories high
- apartments were on each floor
- no elevaters or indoor plumbing
- garbage was thrown in the street got gross
parks
-refuge for city folk
-open fields and small lakes
- families would spend entire days in the park
-central park was established in 1850
buildings continue to grow
- used structural steel framework to make the woolworth building in 1913
-55 stories high
-worlds tallest building
appliances
-vacuum cleaner was infented in 1901 by h cecil booth
-electric washing machine was developed in 1907
- radio broadcasting in 1908
-tv in 1923
- changed the way we recieve information and entertainment
-philo farnsworth and vladimir zworykin
antibiotics
-sir alezander flemming
-in the year of 1938
-discovered the anitbiotic substance penicillin from the fungus penicillium notatum
helped in treatment of diseases endocarditis, gonorrhea, meningitis and pheumonia
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