Life in the Industrial Age

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Life in the Industrial Age

• 1800-1914

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The Industrial Revolution Spreads
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Factors that led others to industrialize

• Natural resources
• Use ideas tech of U.K.

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Source Prentice Hall
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Effects of industrialization

• Rapid urbanization
• Long hours dangerous conditions
• Many new goods at lower prices
• Politics
• Global trade competition

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Technology

• Steele production- Henry Bessemer
• Dynamite- Alfred Nobel
• Dynamo- Michael Faraday
• Elec. Light bulb- Thomas Edison

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New Production

• Interchangeable parts
• Assembly line

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Transport Communication

• Automobile
• Airplane
• Telegraph
• Telephone
• Radio

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Business

• Corporations
• Monopolies trusts
• Cartel
• Captains of industry v. Robber barons

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The Rise of the Cities
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Medicine adds to pop.

• Germ theory- Louis Pasteur
• Tuberculosis- Robert Koch
• Anesthisia
• Sanitation nursing-Florence Nightingale
• Antiseptic- Joseph Lister

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City Life Changes

• Urban renewal
• Paved lit streets
• Sewers
• Skyscrapers
• Entertainment
• Slums persisted
• High crime rates

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Working Class Advances

• Mutual-aid societies
• Men gain suffrage
• Union action
• Gov pass working regulations
• Higher standard of living

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