4e : Test Industrial Age

Dates of invention and name of the inventor of :
cast iron, Wrought iron, iron bidge, Spinning jenny, Steam engine, hot air balloons, steam boats, bicycle, locomotive, photographs, vaccination against rabbies, cars, planes, cinema, phonograph, electric lamp, + explain why it changed life.

Changes in production :
- in agriculture (new machines)
- in production of goods : domestic system to factories
- development of mines

Change in life :
- development of cities + problems of industrial cities in the 19th century

Social classes :
upper and middle classes / lower class : conditions of life

The different point of view about industrial society : economic liberals, communists, catholics,


1848 : Marx and Engels published the Manifesto of the Communist Party = > 'Proletarians' had to prepare a Revolution
1837 to 1901 : in the UK, queen Victoria's reign ==> Victorian period

Social improvement :
Children at school : compulsary education  in France (1881/1882) and in England (1891).