Industrial Age
Chapter 22
Industrial Age
What was the Industrial Age?
What effects did industrialization have on geography?
What cities were the largest (by population) in the following
years:
3,100 BC (Think close to home)
612 (Had a Tower)
25 (Controlled Holy land)
1650 (city of Constantine)
1710 (they like Chinese food)
1825 (Tower, bridge, eye)
1925 (Home of the Yankees)
2014 (They like sushi)
Worlds largest cities
3100 BCE
612
195
25
340BCE
775
1170
1348
1710
1825
1925
2014
Memphis
Babylon
Xian
Rome
Constantinople
Baghdad
Fez
Hangzhou
Beijing
London
NY
Tokyo
30,000
200,000
400,000
450,000
450,000
1,000,000
200,000
432,000
900,000
1.35 million
7.77 million
37 million
Top 10 1800
Top 10 1900
1. Beijing 1.1 million
1. London 6.48 million
2. London
2. NY
3. Guangzhou
3. Paris
4. Edo
4. Berlin
5. Constantinople
5. Chicago
6. Paris
6. Vienna 1.698 million
550,000
7. Naples
7. Tokyo 1.497
8. Hangzhou
8. St Petersburg
9. Osaka
9. Manchester
10. Kyoto 377,000
10. Philadelphia 1.418 million
Answer the following:
What are at least 2 advantages to moving to a bi g city?
What are at least 2 disadvantages to moving to a city?
How is life different for you today than it was 200 years ago?
How would it be different 50 years ago?
Advantages to moving
to cities
Job opportunities
Educational opportunities
More entertainment opportunities
First to get new technologies or fads
????
Disadvantages to
moving to cities
Pollution
Noise
Crime
Space is limited
Cost of living
???
Migration to cities
Functions of cities change
Factories need workers
Build up infrastructure (need workers)
Chicago (30,000 1850 1.7 million 1900)
Meat packing
Pittsburgh
Steel
Move to US
WHY?
Move to US
1870 to 1900
WHY MOVE TO THE US?
12 million move to the US
mostly Germany, Ireland, Italy, England, Russia and China
Where do they go?
West Coast
East Coast
What impact does that have on cities?
Little Italy etc
Cities
1800- Philadelphia is the largest in the US 1890- NYC
1890- London largest in the world
2014- Tokyo
Infrastructure improves
Cleaner better access to water
Electricity
What can that do?
Run out of room
Have to build up
1st skyscraper in what city? 1883 10 stories
Have to build underground
1st subway? 1863
Build parks
WHY?
Electrical Power
Why is it important?
Why is the light bulb so important?
Why was steam power so important?
Electricity
improvements
Importance for factories
1. No longer had to rely on steam power
2. Factories did not have to be near rivers
3. Less dependent on sunlight
Importance for people
Cheaper, safer more convenient light source
Eventually new products make life easier
Inventors
What did the following do?
Henry Bessemer
Thomas Edison
Samuel Morse
Alexander Graham Bell
Guglielmo Marconi
Carl Benz
Gottlieb Daimler
Inventors
Henry Bessemer
Bessemer Process
Makes steel stronger HOW?
Thomas Edison
Practical light bulb
Phonograph
Motion pictures
Samuel Morse
Telegraph
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
Marconi
Radio
Inventors
Carl Benz
1885 built 3 wheeled vehicle
Father of the automobile
Gottlieb Daimler
Invented the carburetor
Henry Ford
Perfected the assembly line
Made automobiles affordable Model T
“You can have it in any color you want, as long as it’s black”
Thomas Edison
Builds off the work of:
Michael Faraday (dynamo)
Joseph Swan (primitive light bulb)
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”
What do you think he means?
When asked about failing so many times before success
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways it wont work”
Innovators/Scientists
What do the following do?
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Henry Ford
Charles Darwin
Dmitri Mendeleyev
Marie and Pierre Curie
Albert Einstein
Louis Pasteur
Crawford Long
Ivan Pavlov
Sigmund Freud
Innovators/Scientists
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Flight (Kitty Hawk, NC 1903)
Charles Darwin
Natural selection and Theory of evolution
Mendeleyev
Periodic Table
Marie and Pierre Curie
Found radioactive elements
Innovators/Scientists
Albert Einstein
E=mc2
Small amount of energy can be converted into huge amount
Louis Pasteur
Pasteurization
Destroys bacteria and prevents fermentation
Crawford Long
Anesthetic (ether)
Joseph Lister
Antiseptic surgery (deaths drop from 45 to 15%)
Innovators
Ivan Pavlov
Pavlov’s Dog
Classical conditioning
Fear response
Taste aversion
Sigmund Freud
psychoanalysis
Moving to cities
What are some problems?
Run out of space (build up)
Why is this a problem?
What other problems occur?
What do people do?
Industrial Revolution’s
Effects on society
EDUCATION
Why would education increase?
Do you feel education is important? Why or why not?
If there was one thing you could change about education, what
would it be and why?
Effects on society
Leisure Time
What is leisure time?
Why does it increase?
What is your favorite leisure time activity?