Required Readings
Reilly, K. (2012). The human journey: A concise introduction to world history. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
The Human Journey: A Concise Introduction to World History, 1450 to the Present, 2nd Edition by Reilly, K. Copyright 2012 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.. Reprinted by permission of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. via the Copyright Clearance Center. Read sections in Chapter 9 from “The Industrial Revolution” to the end of chapter.
Siber, K. (2012, Winter). “The Wright Stuff.” National Parks, pp. 1–3.
Lambrichs, L. (1995, January). “Louis Pasteur, Scientist and Humanist.” UNESCO Courier, pp. 48-49.
com/lib/waldenu/detail.action?docID=3051947″ target=”_blank” title=”Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of, 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact” rel=”noopener”>Smil, V. (2005). Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact.
Read your choice of Chapter 2 (“The Age of Electricity”), Chapter 3 (“Internal Combustion Engines”), Chapter 4 (“New Materials and New Syntheses”), or Chapter 5 (“Communication and Information.”): https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/waldenu/read…
To prepare for this Discussion:
Review the Reilly and Smil readings from this week’s Learning Resources to more clearly understand the technological innovations during the time period.
Put yourself into the place of an ordinary factory worker somewhere in Europe or North America during the first decade of the 20th century.
Although technological innovations had been made during prior centuries that impacted the workplace, their impact was not as dramatically felt in ordinary peoples’ everyday lives as those that took place during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
With these thoughts in mind:
By Day 2
Post a response to the Discussion Spark post. Your response should contain at least two significant paragraphs. Read the Discussion Rubric as it will inform your writing.
Important Note: The Discussion Spark and the weekly Discussion topic below will be graded together. You will see one score in your My Grades area.
By Day 4
Post a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis where you do the following:
Describe and discuss two technological innovations that you feel would have had the greatest impact on the worker’s daily life. What impact did these innovations have on the health, mobility, and leisure time of workers?
Describe an innovation that might still have been out of the ordinary worker’s reach until the rise of the middle class during the 1920s.
Support your assertions by making multiple references to your course readings.
Be sure to support your ideas by properly citing at least one of week’s Learning Resources, in APA format, within your initial post. As this is a post-first discussion board, you will not be able to see the work of your peers until you have posted the initial discussion requirement for the week.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.
By Day 7
Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:
Validate your colleague’s selection of significant individuals by sharing your thoughts on the people profiled, based on your readings in the Learning Resources or other outside research.
Expand on your colleague’s post by offering a new perspective or insight based on your readings in the Learning Resources or other outside research.
Support your colleague’s post by suggesting additional examples from this week’s Learning Resources.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made.
Week 1 Discussion Spark Below:
- If you had to pick a single innovation from the late 19th and early 20th century that shaped the latter century and its events, which would it be and why? In more general terms, how much do you think technology changed the way people behaved, rather than adapted new innovations to fit familiar ways of acting (whether that be how countries fought, greed, etc) at the start of the 20th century?
Haley McElyeaRE: Discussion – Week 1
The two innovations that had the greatest impact on workers were electricity and penicillin. Electricity increased productivity in the work place by allowing things to move faster. Workers had well-lit work, temperature controlled work spaces that not only made it easier to work, but allowed the employees to be more comfortable. The well-lit workspaces were a huge improvement, as noted by Smil in 2005 at the Oxford University Press, “In workshops and factories, electricity replaced poorly lit premises ?rst by incandescent and later by ?uorescent lights”. Controlled temperatures helped improve the health of employees by reducing the risk of frost-bite and heat-stroke. Leisure time was increased because work was able to be completed at a faster pace.
In heavily crowded workplaces, people were getting sick and diseases were spreading. The discovery of penicillin helped combat these disease by being a general antibiotic. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin as a “cure-all” antibiotic that changed the world. The medicine helped workers stay at work and bounce back quickly from being ill. Shortening sick times helped ensure works would have a pay check to support their family.
While electricity was readily available and affordable for large corporations, it was not plausible to have in the home for a typical employee until later. In the 1920s, more people had access to automobiles after credit programs began. These programs made it easier for families to make large purchases like appliances and pay in installments.
References
Smil, Vaclav, et al. Creating the Twentieth Century : Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2005. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/waldenu/detail.action?docID=3051947.
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Douglas FalascoRE: Discussion – Week 1
If i had to pick a single innovation from the late 19th century or early 20th century that shaped the latter century and its events i would have to pick Heinrich Hertz discovery of electro magnetic waves. Electromagnetic waves were first observed in 1886 (Smil ,2005). This technology would shape the evolution of technology in the coming decades. The basic discovery of electromagnetic waves would lead to many other discoveries by other inventors perhaps one of he most notable Marconis Morse signal, or Morse Code. Morse code played a pivotal role in World War 1 as a main way of communication between ships and land.
This discovery of Electromagnetic waves changed the way of life for many people especially when you look closer to the 2000’s. The use of Electromagnetic waves led to the first radio broadcast, the first television. They also made possible by 2000 the ability to find your location almost anywhere on the planet by global positioning systems ( Smil, 2005). But the Morse code changed the way countries acted in wars. With communication more readily accessible by the use of Morse Code before radios became the main use. Now by using electromagnetic waves in the 20th centuries communication is much more sophisticated by the use of radios which are an updated and much more sophisticated use of electromagnetic waves.
Smil, Valcav, et al. Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovation of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact, Oxford University Press, Incorporated,2005. Proquest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/waldenu/read…
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