History essay 1000 words, due within 35 hours

Second Industrial Revolution

New technologies – Chemicals, transportation, electricity, etc.

Incandescent Light Bulb – 1879 – Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

Karl Benz (1844-1929) – internal combustion engine

Telegraph – 1st Transatlantic Cable – 1866

Telephone – 1876 – A.G. Bell (1847-1922)

Wireless (Radio) G. Marconi (!874-1937)

Motion Pictures

Gramophone

Democratization of tastes

Industrialization and Urban Growth

Alienation

“white collar” workers

Subways – London – 1863; Paris – 1900; New York – 1904

Cholera – London 1847

Louis Pasteur (1822-95)

Edwin Chadwick (1800-90) “Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain” – 1842

Public Health Act – 1848

Tabloid newspapers

Contagious Diseases Acts – 1866-69

“Red Light” areas