Presentations
The turn of the 19th Century
- the science of this era would experience some wonderful expansion
- Universities and industries hired scientists to promote their schools or to work directly for industry
- The leading aspect of science during this era has to be the Theory of Evolution
Mad advances in science that helped urban problems
- science suddenly exercised a growing influence on human thought, even more so than during the Scientific Revolution
- there was an enormous explosion of growth in fundamental science- scientific discoveries of the late 19th century were used to make improvements in the quality of life
- this period also witnessed the beginning and growth of hospitals-founded in Britain as a result of voluntary efforts by private citizens
19th century science
- Anthropology, archeology, and cell biology were created
- solor system was formed by planetesimals-small bodies in space that collide and join together
Scientific Discoveries
- periodic table is a tavular display of the chemical elements, organized on the basis of their atomic number, electron configurations, and chemical properties
- main body of the table is 18 x 7
- elements are presented an uncreasing atomic number
Medicine in the 10th century
- Was a time of war and unrest in the US as well as Europe
- benefit of war was advancement in medicine
- wounds sustained on the battlefield were treated immediately and under unique circumstances
- One surgeon, Ambrose Pare, became an expert in treating gunshot wounds in Napoleon's army but breakthrough in controlling bleeding, infection, and pain were developed on battlefields
Disease
- sick people would interact with others and openly spread germs with other people
- packing people together in a small area with dwindling resources is just asking for rampant disease
- due to the high prices of property and the low pay many workers earned, most people couldn't afford hygienic needs or medicine
19th century
- age of machine tools
- inventors began to design practical internal combustion engines
- assembly line was invented in this time- allowing people to work faster, was more efficient, and cause more goods to made
technology
- battery invented
- 4 years later first person to patent gas lighting
- first steam-powered locomotive made
- telegraph made in 1837 by Samuel Mores-mores code named after him
- Telegraph is just long distance messaging without physical exchange of an object
- industrialized and urban expansion helped shape america what it is today
- population boom put a strain on housing developers- some people lived on streets or moved into tenements which wasn't much better
- high demand for houses pushed prices and put more strain on cash- strapped workers
- industrialized cities experienced phenomenal growth as people left homes and villages and took up jobs to work with strangers
- about working long hours for little pay
- transitions from small, family owned business to big business
Crowded cities
- some results included growing slums, increased population densities, and increases crime
- most families deprived of their livelihoods decided to start a new and a migration of immigrants began to teh ne world , a land of opportunity
Manufacturing
- once balanced national economy suddenly became divided between an industrial North and a agrarian South
- North focused on industry
- South focused on agriculture- once slaves were free, they tried to get people to work for as cheap as they could
- failure to compare in the marketplace meant economic collapse
- south fought for its life
- Civil War was fought moreover economics than ideology
- Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation was meant to break and attack the economic back of the south than it was intended to promote racial equality
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