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Science, Technology, and Science, Technology, and EducationEducation
Chapter 16
Turn of the CenturyTurn of the Century
Today…Today…
1. Technological advances and urban planning
2. New technologies and how they improved life
3. How education changed
Growing CitiesGrowing Cities
Technological advances created a need for better urban Technological advances created a need for better urban planningplanning
Participation #1Participation #1“I was largely induced to think over the matter from seeing
the difficulty and pain the horses experienced in hauling the cars up Jackson Street, from Kearny to Stockton Street, on which street four or five horses were needed for the purpose—the driving being accompanied by the free use of whip and voice, and occasionally by the horses falling and being dragged down the hill on their sides, by the car loaded with passengers sliding on its track.”
-- Andrew Smith Hallidie, inventor of the cable car
Participation #1Participation #1
Why did Hallidie believe that transportation methods in the city needed improving?
A. The streets were overcrowded
B. To prevent difficulties for horses
C. Passenger cars slid down the hills uncontrolled
D. It was too great a distance from Jackson to Stockton Street
Urban PlanningUrban Planning
• Urban planning: Designing how city land will be used– Business– Living space
1960 Brasilia1960 Brasilia
SkyscrapersSkyscrapers
• Space problems– By 1900, 4 in 10 Americans
live in cities– Skyscrapers make best
use of limited space– Elevators & steel
made possible
Electric StreetcarsElectric Streetcars
• How to move all those people around– Allowed cities to
also spread outward
Parks and RecreationParks and Recreation
– Urban parks were popular– To get away from the big city without really
leaving
Central ParkCentral Park Iowa City, IAIowa City, IA
New TechnologyNew Technology
Participation #2Participation #2
If you could invent anything (school appropriate) what would it be and why?
Printing PressesPrinting Presses
• Electric
• Organized pages
• Newspapers = 1 cent
AirplaneAirplane
• Orville & Wilbur Wright
AirplaneAirplane
• Orville & Wilbur Wright
Watch Wright flightWatch Wright flight
Participation #3Participation #3
1. What do you think airplanes were originally going to be used for?
2. What types of things are they used for today?
PhotographyPhotography
• George Eastman invents Kodak camera– Easy to hold and operate
Camera ca.1880Camera ca.1880
First Kodak cameraFirst Kodak camera
$25 = $500 today$25 = $500 today
AutomobileAutomobile
• Henry Ford produced first Model T in 1908– The Great Automobile Race of 1908
Sandwich at Turn of Century
• 1884 Hose Company No. 1 is formed, the first Sandwich Fire Department.
• 1893 The Sandwich City Council authorized its first electrical department and plant. In 1912 the Sandwich Electric Light Plant was sold to Illinois Northern Utilities Company, which eventually merged with Commonwealth Edison in 1953.
• 1898 The first telephone company was organized.
EducationEducation
Participation #4Participation #4Page 489
Look at the education/literacy chart.
1. By how much did the literacy rate rise from 1871 to 1920?
2. Does the number of immigrants during this period make the increase more or less impressive? Why?
Changes in EducationChanges in Education
• More attending– Attendance required for 8-14 year olds
• Physical punishment for everything
• More race discrimination– 62% white children attended– 34% African American children attended
Changes in EducationChanges in Education
• High school!– New industrial age meant:
• Advanced skills necessary
– Most students studied vocational courses:• Boys-- Mechanics, carpentry• Girls-- Office work
ASSIGNMENTASSIGNMENTBefore you leave:1. How are skyscrapers and streetcars
an example of urban planning?2. Summarize new inventions at the turn
of the century and how they would make life easier.
• For Tomorrow:Chapter 16, Section 2 worksheet