Today we watched presentations and took notes on them.
Chapter 8
Life At the Turn of the Century
Group 6
Science and Technology Advantages
In the 1890s, electric streetcars replaced horse-drawn vehicles. Henry Ford introduced his Model-T Ford car in the year of 1908. Bicycles became very popular. Paved streets came about late in the century. The assembly line was a manufacturing process in which individual parts of a larger product are put together in a specific order. A new Model-T was produces every 24 seconds. The price dropped from $850 to less than $300. The power controlled airplane was invented in 1903 by Orville and Wilbur Wright. The first plane flew 121 inches in 12 seconds. The first tall buildings were 4-6 stories high with apartments on each floor. There was no indoor plumbing. They used outhouses and the garbage was thrown into the streets. The Central Park (New York) was established in the 1850's. The buildings began to use structural steel framework to make the Woolworth building in 1913. Vacuum cleaner was invented in 1901 by Booth. Electric washing machine was developed in 1907. Radio broadcasting was used in 1908. The TV was created in 1923. Antibiotics (penicillin) were discovered in the year 1938 by Sir Alexander Flemming.
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