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Men
By the mid 1800's, most middle class husbands went to work in an office or shop. -
British Mechanic
William Cockerill opened different facotries in Belgium to make the spinning and weaving machines -
College for Women
They started opening small colleges for just women to go to. -
Photos
By the 1840's, a new art form, photography was emerging. -
Anesthesia
Anethesia was first used to relieve pain during surgery. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention demanded that women should have to the right to vote. -
Paris Rebuilds
The most extensive urban renewal took place in Paris. -
Women start speaking up
Some women in the middle classes, had campaigned for the abolition of slavery. -
Realism
A New artistic movement called realism to hold in the West. -
Steel Production and the Bessemet Process
Henry Bessemer independently developed a new process for making steal from iron. -
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo re-created France's past in different novels -
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. -
Germany
Germany legalized labor unions in 1869. -
Germany
Germany united into a powerful nation. -
Alexander Graham Bell
He created and patented the telephone. -
Robert Koch
German doctor, Robert Koch, identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis. -
Buildings
Architects were using steel to construct soaring buildings such as sky scrapers. -
Population of Britain
Workers made up more than 30 % of the population in early 1900's -
Membership in France
In France, membership grew from 140,000 in 1890 to over a million in 1912. -
A Disease Discovered
Yellow fever and malaria had been traced to microbes carried by mosquitoes.