1. Chapter 26 Section 4 Study Guide
19th Century Progress

2. It's wasn't just new stuff…
…it was that the pace of change sped up
Gasoline & internal combustion engine
Electricity & electric generators in factories

3. Key Inventors & Inventions
Thomas Edison: & the phonograph
Alexander Graham Bell
Using electricity to transmit sound
Telephone, 1876
Guglielmo Marconi & the "wireless," 1895
Morse Code developed as international code

4. cars 1st automobile made in Germany Henry Ford & the Model T, 1908
Interchangeable parts
Assembly line
Cars transformed life, esp. in U.S.
Where people could live, "suburbs"
Gas stations, gas refineries, etc.
Traffic laws
Motor hotels = "motels"

5. "mass culture" Increased literacy Improvements in communication
e.g. Radio allowed for nationwide broadcasts
Increased leisure time for the working class, middle class
"the weekend"
40-hour week
Motion pictures, spectator sports, etc.

6. Medicine & Science Germ theory, 1850s Louis Pasteur & bacteria
Joseph Lister, 1865
Antiseptics
Cleanliness
Improved city planning & sanitation
Diseases
Vaccines & cures

7. Medicine & Science, cont'd
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
Theory of evolution
Gregor Mendel & his peas
Inherited traits, etc.
John Dalton & atoms, atomic theory
Dmitri Mendeleev & the Periodic Table

8. Medicine & Science, cont'd
Marie & Pierre Curie
radioactivity
Ernest Rutherford & Albert Einstein
Physics
Psychology
Pavlov
Freud

9. Take Away Points to Ponder
What was "mass" about the mass culture?
Why did Pavlov's & Freud's ideas challenge the ideas of the Enlightenment?
Why might there have been a general feeling of optimism at the dawn of the 20th century?