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Period: 1490 to 1510
The corset
Corsets were a big part of the everyday clothing for women during the victorian Era. The corset was made to make the women's waist smaller, they would lace them as tight as possible for the tiniest waist possible. Corsets were uncomfortable to wear, making hard to breath deeply and compressing their ribs and internal organs. Studies showed that wearing corsets during the Victorian Era distributed the natrual lung Capacity from 2% to 29% -
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Queen Victoria
During this time period in Great Britian was known by her name. The Victorian Era , Queen Victoria took the crown at the age of 18 her reign lasted over 63 years. She was the longest of any British Monarch. She became queen when the monarchy was unpopular with the people, but she won them over with her modesty. She got married to Prince Albert, they had 9 children, and Albert died in 1861. Queen Victoria became a widow at the age of 20, she then started wearing black -
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was a inventor during the 1800s. He invented 1,00 inventions, including the lighting bulb, moving pictures, and the phonograph. In 1897 he \ harnessed electricity and developed the first lighting bulb. -
Pasteur and Germ theory
Louis Pasteur was the man who made the breakthrough and linked germs to disease', he discovered this theory by accident in 1857 when investigating why sugar beats soured unexpectedly. He proved his theory that sugar beats soured because of germs carried in the air we breath. He proved his theory by creating a experiment -
The Eiffile Tower
The Eiffle tower was built in 1889 by Alexandra Gustave Eiffle. The tower took about two years to built, it was originally built to be in a temporary part of the 1889 exposition. Some people thought that it didn't deserve to be called art. A petition was even written. The Effile tower was almost torn down after the Exposition, but it made its self useful by adding a radio antennae to the top -
The Drefyus Affair
In 1894 a list of french military documents were found in the waste basket of the German Embassy in Paris by a women who was working as a mole in the embassy. The french counter-intelligence suspected captain Alfred Dreyfus. They accused him of being a mole,The French officials didn't have much on Dreyfus but they got some to make sure that someone was accused. A lot happened happened and Dreyfus went through a lot. But in the end with a new trial in 1899. -
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The model T Ford
In the year 1880s the Germans developed a automobile, Henry Ford wanted to built one that everyone can afford to buy. People liked the automobile because the price never increased. , by the year 1929 Ford was producing more than one car per minute. Even though that Ford wasn't the one who invented the first automobile people gav him credit for it
