- life at the turn of the century=
- transportation=
- used horse
- horses helped with manure
- 1890s electric street cars replaced horse vehicles
- henry ford introduced the model-T car in 1908
- bicycles were popular
- paved streets in late century
- created by for company
- 1909 - 1927 the company produced more than 15 million automobiles
- the black color reduced cost of the model-T
- price dropped from 850 dollars to 300
- advanced mass production
- ford paid his workers higher wages
- spurred industrial revolution
- moved from rural to the city.
power controlled airplane
- 1903
- flew 121 inch in 12 sec
- further improved safety power and control
- 1905 there was a sustainable flight
- could land with plane undamaged
- can transport in shorter time
buildings
- 4 to 6 stories high
- apartments on each floor
- 2-3 familys lived in each room
- no elevators
- outhouses for sewage
- garbage was thrown into streets
parks
- refuge for city folk
- open fields small lakes
- families would spend entre days
- in 1850s
- electric elivater
- apartments did not have as many famillies
- 55 stories high
- in 1913
- apliances=
- everythin by hand
- vacume in 1901
- 1907 electric washing machine
- 1908 radio brodcasting1923 telivision
antobiotics
- 1938 invented
- helped treat sicknesses and desieses
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