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Technology, Society, and Culture: The Industrial Revolution

Unit 11. Technology, Society, and Culture: The Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution. Late 1800s thru the Early 1900s People with imagination, ingenuity and backing led the way during this time period. Advancement in the following areas : Communications Transportation Industry

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Technology, Society, and Culture: The Industrial Revolution

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  1. Unit 11 Technology, Society, and Culture:The Industrial Revolution

  2. The Industrial Revolution Late 1800s thru the Early 1900s People with imagination, ingenuity and backing led the way during this time period. Advancement in the following areas: Communications Transportation Industry Agriculture Medicine Home

  3. Communications Electricity The most important contribution to the Industrial Revolution was the ability to harness and transport electricity! Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone 1st telephone call in Atlanta was between two railroad workers! Thomas Edison: Mimeograph Copier Louis Waterman: Fountain Pen OttmarMerganthaler: Linotype Machine Mechanical Typesetting device Newspapers printed faster

  4. Transportation Frank Sprague: Electric street car (Trolley) Expanded the boundaries of the nation’s cities The rise of the Suburb: Communities on the outskirts of cities Inman Park: Atlanta’s 1st suburb Karl Benz-Gottlieb Daimler: Gasoline powered engine Automobile/cars Henry Ford: Perfected the practical car Assembly Line

  5. Industry Celluloid: hard plastic-like material Nitroglycerin: chemical used in dynamite to blast and build such things as railroad tunnels and mining Jan Metzeliger: Machine that attached the soles to shoes…from 8 pair to 1000 pair per day. Charles Hall-Paul Herault: Developed an economic way to take aluminum from ore Price dropped from $5/pound to 18 cents per pound

  6. Agriculture Electricity and gas powered machines!!! Tractors: Replaced horses Never Tired!!! New ways of Tilling Plowing Improved seeds Luther Burbank: research produced new types of fruit, vegetables, grains… Joseph Glidden: barbed wire “Good fences make good neighbors” Daniel Halladay: windmill used to pump well water to supply the needs of a farm Samuel Rumph: wooden packing crate for transportation of peaches Further distribution of product Georgia now ranks 3rd in nation in peach production!!!

  7. Medicine Louis Pasteur: discover vaccines for chicken cholera and rabies Pasteurization: the process of heating milk, cider, and other products to a high temperature to kill the bacteria before transferring into sterilized bottles William Roentgen: X-Ray Dr. Walter Reed: learned that mosquitoes carried yellow fever Stopped the spread of the disease by killing the mosquitoes during the building of the Panama Canal Experimental and cutting edge hospital in Wash. DC named after him.

  8. Home Thomas Edison: Phonograph-record/playback Incandescent Lamp: used a carbon filament made of cotton Light Bulb George Eastman: Hand-held camera Singer Manufacturing Company: Perfected and marketed the household sewing machine 1831: 1st central electrical power plant in the world…Niagara Falls, New York!!!

  9. Georgia Industries Improved Railroad system benefited the textile, forest, and mining industries of Georgia. Textiles • Woven materials (i.e.. Clothing, sheets, blankets, and carpets) used the cotton supply. • Main manufacturing centers were originally located along the Fall Line (Columbus, Macon, and Augusta)…WATER POWER! Forest Products • Lumber used for construction of buildings, furniture, boats/ships… • Naval Stores: turpentine, rosin, tar, pitch, lumber Mining • Georgia had rich deposits inKaolin: white clay used in paper and other products…also had deposits in gold, coal, iron and Bauxite: mineral used in manufacture of aluminum. • Created employment in sawmills, railroads, and factories!!!

  10. Georgian Progress Atlanta hosts 3 Exhibitions (Shows/Fairs) International Cotton Exposition (1881) Piedmont Exposition (1887) Cotton States and International Exposition (1895) ***Henry Grady’s dream of showing off the New South…Industrial Revolution!

  11. Rich’s Department Store Morris Reichs(Rich) started out as a peddler Borrowed $500 to buy store in Atlanta CUSTOMER ORIENTED SERVICE Exchanged goods for purchases when customers did not have money (i.e..chickens, eggs, vegetables…) Atlanta’s 1st plate glass store window Window Shopping!!! “Annual Lighting of the Great Tree” During the Great Depression Atlanta’s teachers were paid in Scrip (Paper money that is not legal currency)…Rich’s accepted it at face value! Cotton from farmers for merchandise Downtown store closed in 1991.

  12. Coca-Cola Company John Styth Pemberton: Atlanta pharmacist who discovered original Coke formula “French Wine Coca” Alcohol and coca plant (Cocaine) Due to temperance…changed name and formula to Coca-Cola. Coca Plant Kola nut: stimulant from Africa Asa Candler: Bought all Coca-Cola stock in 1888 Gave money to establish Emory Univ. and hospital. Mayor of Atlanta without pay Willis Venable: Soda Fountain man who suggested to a customer to use soda water to mix with water-- Ernest Woodruff: Bought company for $25 million, 1919 Robert Woodruff: Led company into a multibillion dollar company and International Business

  13. Education in New South Characteristics Little support from elected officials Teachers were poorly paid Teachers not properly trained School terms shorter (WHY?) Discipline stricter High school students expected to work on farms or in factories. Funded by property taxes Few property owners Reluctant to pay for black children http://portal.cherokee.k12.ga.us/Schools/sequoyah-hs/departments/career_tech/default.aspx

  14. Georgia Educators Dr. Gustavus James Orr: 1st State School Commissioner 1872 Goals: Improve funding Equal treatment of blacks Vocational Education: skills to fill the need of a growing labor market (INDUSTRY!) James S. Hook: Goals: Establish Normal Schools: Teacher Training 3-Month School Year- educate and work Teacher requirements: School commissioners made up test in spelling, reading, writing, grammar, and geography—Must pass with 70! Good Moral Character! Gustavus Glenn: Created teacher licensing system Good classroom management

  15. Classroom and Government Discipline: Whipping Strict standards measured by neatness, respect, being on time, No profanity or disorderly conduct. Georgia Constitution (1877): Public Education in Elementary ONLY Segregation of schools “Separate but Equal”—JIM CROW LAWS!!! Georgia School of Technology Georgia Tech To educate the populous in the ever changing Industrial World.

  16. The Arts Winslow Homer: Paintings of sea and ordinary people Frederick Remington: Paintings of American West John Singer Sargent: Portraits John Philip Sousa: Patriotic writer of songs/marches Katherine Lee Bates: Wrote “America The Beautiful” Frederic Barthold: French architect who created the Statue of Liberty

  17. Sidney Lanier POET Born in Macon (1842) Graduated from Oglethorpe University Confederate private captured by the Union Suffered from tuberculosis while in prison camp First Novel: “Tiger Lilies” Played the flute for Peabody Symphony in Baltimore, MD First Poems published in 1875 “Evening Song” “The Song of the Chattahoochee” “The Marshes of the Glynn” “Sunrise” (Perhaps most famous) Died in Lynn, NC (1881)

  18. Joel Chandler Harris Newspaper/Short Stories Born in Eatonton-1848 At the age of 13, apprentice for the newspaper called The Countryman Associate Editor of The Savannah Morning News 1876-Met Henry Grady and helped make the Atlanta Constitution a NEW SOUTH paper. Legends/Folktales told to him by former slaves “Uncle Remus” “His Songs and His Sayings” “Uncle Remus and His Friends” Uncle Remus and Br’er Rabbit” Atlanta’s House was clalled“Wren’s Nest” Died in 1908

  19. Leisure and Recreation Differed according to economic status Poor and Middle Class Church related activities House parties with relatives Bar-BQ, sing-a-longs, games… Cycling, dancing, card playing Upper Middle Class and Rich Teas, garden parties, shopping trips, private clubs Carriage rides Soda Shops Formal balls Phonograph Football and baseball 1892-College football began in Piedmont Park UGA vs. Auburn Univ. Georgia Tech also joined

  20. CREDITS • Page 2: http://cybersleuth-kids.com/pictures/industrialrevolution/index2.html • Page 3: http://www.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/bell.html • Page 4: http://www.inmanpark.org/flyer.html • Page 5: http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/janmatzeliger.html • Page 6: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-962 • Page 7: http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/visitors/visitcenter/history/pages/biography.aspx • Page 8: http://www.nypa.gov/facilities/niagara.htm • Page 10: http://www.piedmontpark.org/history/history.html • Page 11: http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/atlanta/shutze/rich.html • Page 12: http://www.coca-cola.com/index.jsp • Page 13: http://www.mcvsd.org/ • Page 14: http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gahistmarkers/normalhistmarker2.htm • Page 16: http://www.gatech.edu/about/ • Page 17: http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Statue_of_Liberty.html • Page 18: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1271 • Page 19: http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwelf/elfjch.html • Page 20: http://auburntigers.cstv.com/trads/aub-trads.html

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