Lets pretend that the womens name is Emily Williams, she is a older women from London. What are her physical qualities and personality traits? What was this womens life like in 1909? Include the effect of World War 1, music, literature, and attitudes towards science and literature that may have influenced her.
In 1900, an exhibition in Paris showcased the technological achievements of the nineteenth century. Enthusiastic visitors saw signs of progress even before they entered the exhibition halls. The Eiffel Tower, 11 years new, soared high above the city skyline. On the banks of Seine (sen), the elegant Gare d’Orsay (gair dor-SAY), the city’s first electrified railway terminal, opened its doors. Arriving at the exposition, fifty million visitors flocked to see a steel crane that could lift 45-ton weights into the air, a steam locomotive capable of pulling a 200-ton load at a breathtaking 75 miles per hour, and an amazing moving staircase called an “escalator.” Many of these marvels were housed in the awe-inspiring Palace of Electricity. Five thousand light bulbs bathed the palace in light. Beneath its halls, the mere flick of a switch unleashed up to 40,000 horsepower to drive all the machines on display. Just a half-century earlier, London had hosted the Crystal Palace exhibition, the world’s first industrial fair. The British were proud of the early lead they had taken in the new industrial world. But compared to the Paris exposition of 1900, the Crystal Palace show seemed positively old-fashioned. The wonders in Paris were part of a second great wave of industrial growth in the Western world. It began about 1875 and lasted into the early part of the twentieth century. It is often called the Second Industrial Revolution. The first Industrial revolution had been based largely on one material, iron, which was used to make everything from machine parts and pipes to railroad tracks and bridges. But the second Revolution employed a different material---steel. In the mid-1800s, inventors came up with new methods for producing steel in large quantities. Manufacturers and builders preferred steel to iron because it was lighter, stronger, and more flexible. Railroads, bridges, and soaring structures like the Eiffel Tower were built of steel. Steel was used to make more precise and powerful machines that mass-produced goods more easily than ever before, a flood of cheap products from screws and bolts to buttons and bicycles-----poured from the factories of industrial nations. During the first Industrial Revolution, a single kind of energy, steam power had been used to drive the engines in factories, ships and trains. During the second Industrial Revolution, inventors found new energy sources in electricity and petroleum. Electricity brought light to peoples homes. It led to new methods of communation, like the telegraph and telephone.
The communist manifesto, which Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published in 1848, became one of the most influential documents of modern times. Marx and Engels wrote that society is always divided into classes that struggle against each other.
The social democratic party organized in nearly every industrialized European nation, spreading ideas about workers rights and sharing wealth.
"The Work shop of the world", thats what people called Great Britain, the land where the Industrial Revolution began. Until the late nineteeth century, textile mills, railroads, made Britain the most highly industrialized country on Earth. But when the second revolution sped up the pace of change, Britain found itself challenged by rivals across Europe and North America.
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Lets pretend that the womens name is Emily Williams, she is a older women from London. What are her physical qualities and personality traits? What was this womens life like in 1909? Include the effect of World War 1, music, literature, and attitudes towards science and literature that may have influenced her.
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