Life in the Industrial Age

  • Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven, was born and was an accomplished muscian by age 12.
  • William Cockerill

    William Cockerill
    In 1807 this British mechanic opened factories in Belgiumto make spinning and weaving machines.
  • Urban Renewal

    Urban Renewal
    Urban Renewal took place in the 1850s in Paris.
  • Sewage Lines

    Sewage Lines
    Sewage lines expanded 750 miles in Londan Paris
  • Charles Darwin

    This British naturalist published the book "On the Order of Species"
  • Victor Hugo

    Victor Hugo wrote the novel Les Miserables which tells about the reality of poverty and hunger
  • Emily Davies

    Emily Davies
    She campaighned for female students to take exams at Cambridge University
  • Alfred Nobel

    Alfred Nobel
    This Swedish chemist invented dynamite in 1866
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    This American Inventor made the first elesctrfic light bulb
  • Microbes

    Microbes
    French chemist Louis Paseur clearly showed the link between microbes and disease.
  • Impressionism

    The new movement known as the impressionism started in the 1870s
  • Germany unites

    Germany unites
    Germany united into a powerful nation, became Europe's leading industrial power
  • Claude Monet

    A group of artists held their exhibition at a local photographer's studio and Claude Monet, made his painting the Sunrise.
  • Thomas Eakinsis

    Thomas Eakinsis painted The Gross Clinic
  • The Telephone

    The Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.
  • Schools

    Schools
    Schools trained teachers for shcools in 1879
  • Edvard Munch

    This artist made differnt paintings most were very realism realated
  • Europe

    Europe
    Workers made up 30% of the population in Britain
  • Wright Brothers

    Wright Brothers
    Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the first airplane, their first flight only lasted a few seconds,
  • Population in France

    Population in France
    The population grew to over a million people by 1912