Describe innovations to construction between 1750-1850.
Detail the stories of John Snow and cholera and Edward Jenner and smallpox.
Excerpt one primary source that describes the importance of a new invention in Britain.
How can Parliament increase Britain's technical leadership?
Cholera was a deadly intestinal disease that could kill in hours of the first symptoms during the 1854s. Dr. John Snow believed that the disease was caused by a mother washing a diaper by the town’s common well. The water was then infected with vibrio cholerae, killing about 10,000 people. Many other scientists disregarded Snow’s theory, and instead believed cholera was caused by breathing in foul vapors or God’s curse on the well. However Snow’s theory was proven several times by hundreds of cholera’s victim’s cases leading back to the same common well. Few people who were not infected by the disease had private wells of their own and did not drink the infected well’s water. The disease was not contagious but only spread if the infected water was drinken. Snow is now known as the pioneer of public health in epidemiology because of his discovery in the importance in sanitization.
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Smallpox was an extremely known infectious disease that killed hundreds of people in the 1800s. Dr. Edward Jenner had came across a country-lore who believed that people with cowpox did not catch smallpox. Cowpox was a much less deadly disease in cows that humans could catch with the same symptoms as smallpox, but only lasted a few days. Jenner experimented this theory on James Phipps who responded to the cowpox then was not affected by smallpox. Because of the success in Jenner’s theory, he published “An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the variolae vaccinae”. Just like Snow’s experience with Cholera, other scientists opposed to Jenner’s practice with the vaccination. Many people rejected the solution because it used God’s creatures, however the vaccination spread all throughout the world by 1853. By 1980 the vaccination was spread to all sources of smallpox and the infectious disease was the first to be wiped from the face of the Earth.
"Edward Jenner (1749-1823)." About Edward Jenner. Edward Jenner Institute, n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2014. .
Determine the effects of Cholera and other diseases on medical advances in the later 1800s.
DeleteNice research, Caitlyn! As to James' question above, I would not answer it in terms of how these diseases influenced medical advances. Rather we have studied historical periods that made these advances possible and you may wish to cite them in your response to James....
DeleteCholera and smallpox has influenced modern day medics greatly. Snow's discovery of bacteria having a harmful effect set in the principals of sterilization. Jenner's creationofthe vaccination has created an everlasting aid to disease prevention. By studying these two scientist's work we, today, can improve the fundimental principals they set.
DeleteIn 1817 William Murdoch invented gas lighting, an important innovation to construction during the Industrial Revolution. The new lighting was 70% cheaper than using candles, therefore factories favored it. With this lighting factory workers were able to work into later hours without sunlight using gas lighting. However, the gas lighting produced ammonia, napth, and coal tar. Overall the innovation of gas lighting was a great improvement in the 1800s to increase the growth of the industrial revolution.
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Analyze the pros and cons of gas lighting and justify the replacement of it with our current system
DeleteGas lighting was mostly a great thing in the 1800s. It allowed for the industrial revolution to expand greatly. Although, because workers were able to work longer hours into the night, family loyalties and working abuse was increased. Today our modern day lighting is much more efficient than gas lighting. Some lighting today is energy efficient and gives off more light than a 1800s gas light.
DeleteDefend the scientists who apposed to Snow and Jenner's theories of medical breakthroughs.
ReplyDeleteSnow and Jenner were two amazing doctors who were on the path to major success with their name branded on it. The doctors who disregarded these two were desperate to prove Snow or Jenner wrong and find a different theory of their own. Like most people during the industrial Revolution, the doctors wanted success and money. Also, regular citizens who had strong loyalties to the church apposed to these scientific answers to deaths. These people believed that it was God's will that these diseases are present.
Definition- Technical leadership is something that may appear natural, but actually takes a great deal of practice and research.
ReplyDeleteBritain’s Parliament can improve the country’s technical leadership by forcing factories to be built in less popular places that people from outside of the country would be less likely to visit. They could also implement a uniform promotion system to workers in factories, so that all of the foremen all had at one point worked as a factory worker, and would understand the problems that people ran into.
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DeleteThoughtful promotion system response, Nicholas. On your first recommendation, are you suggesting that less popular places would be less susceptible to industrial espionage (spies from other nations travelling under the guise of "tourists")?
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DeleteJudge if modern innovations were worth the diseases that came with them.
ReplyDeleteWould you mind being more specific here, Jason? What diseases are you thinking of?
DeleteI believe that this response all determines on the perspective of the viewer. Today we are living in a world with amazing technology and ruining our planet leading to death. However, if the industrial revision had never accured our species would go through massive natural selection. Our species would be stronger and immune to diseases. Although, if we were living in a world with your siblings, children, parents dying because of the lack of medical breakthrough we would dream of a world we live in today. I believe there is no perfect yes or no because there is no inbetween. Although, the innovations in the revolution and today are inevitable because we as human beings cannot stand to see our loved ones die off. We, as humans, want the best and easiest ways of life.
ReplyDeletePlumbing was a major adjustment to architecture during the Industrial Revolution. The old sanitation facilities became too crowded due to the increase in population. Plumbing became implemented into buildings because of space issues and outbreaks of Dysentery and Typhoid Fever. The new plumbing systems had potable water running through entire buildings, and underground sewer systems were used to keep people's waste out of the streets.
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Primary Source - Factory Automation from The Philosophy of Manufactures; 1835
ReplyDelete"The grand object … of the modern manufacturer is, through the union of capital and science, to reduce the task of his work-people to the exercise of vigilance and dexterity."
"Ure, Andrew." Industrial Revolution Reference Library. Ed. James L. Outman, Matthew May, and Elisabeth M. Outman. Vol. 3: Primary Sources. Detroit: UXL, 2003. 13-20. World History in Context. Web. 20 Apr. 2014.
Which construction innovation was more useful: Gas Lighting or Plumbing? Justify your reasoning?
ReplyDeleteI think that plumbing was the better invention because it allowed you to move waste more efficiently, slowing (to some extent) the spread of disease.
DeleteGreat! I agree completely! Your such an smart person!
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DeleteWhat are other major and minor inventions that had impact on the revolution?
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