jueves, 7 de octubre de 2010

Top Ten Inventions of XIX Century

The XIX century was an important era to our society, the second Industrial Revolution started at this century, and it got involved in a lot of changes, such as demographic, economic, social, and environmental. Between this century the Industrial Revolution had huge transformations like the followings: 

* Invention of machines to improve productive processes
* The move to a home workshop to the fabrics
* Use of coal and steam
* Transport Revolution, the use of trains and railroad






  


Top Ten Inventions of XIX century

10  Color Photograph

 

9 Canned Food



Aspirine



 7   Pasteurization



6  Bicycle



5 Writing Machine



 4 Electric Motor
  


3 Antiseptic Surgery



2 Telephone




1 Radio









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Impact of Inventions



Canned Food
This had a lot of impact in people because it marks the beginning of a massive production of canned food, today we can see lots and lots of food that can be canned to be preserved, such as beans, pepper, milk, some vegetables, etc. There are countries like US where people mainly consume this type of food.


 Color Photograph
The black and white photograph started the century before of XIX, this is the ultimate evolution of the photograph, we can see them at this days the color photograph, the unique thing that is changed is the quality of the resolution in the images.



 Aspirine
The aspirine is a very common medicine people use everytime in this era, it is most used when we have a headache, it is maybe the most used medicine all aorund the world. The aspirine is the same this days that in the XIX century, it only changes the quantity of the dosis.



Pasteurization
 It was created by Louis Pasteur by accident in the XIX  century, we recognize more than in other things the pasteurization because it usually is printed on the milk carton, the pasteurization is very important because with it we can preserve a lot of food, thing that was impossible years ago of this discovery.



 Bicycle
 The bicycle is an extremely important media of transport in every places all aorund the world, people of all ages can use a bicycle and in some places is t he only way of transportation, many years ago when people didn't have a car they used this artefact to transport themselves.



Writing Machine
 The writing machine was the first artefact where people could write in a mechanical way, this machine was really helpful for scientists, writers, and many other people who had the necessity to write a lot of their works made, the writing machine nowadays has evolved to the keyboard we all know in computers, or in a cellphone.




Electric Motor
It is one of the most important invented in the XIX century, the electric motor made a new industrial revolution and with it, where changed a lot of mechanisms and machines that people used to have in those years, the electric motor had the purpose to made a process much more simply.


Antiseptic Surgery
This was maybe the most important invention in the medical area in the XIX century, with the antiseptic surgery came the use of first aids that we know nowadays, the use of alcohol, oxygened water, etc. This invention had a massive impact in the world, because with it, people could cure their wounds preventing an infection or disease.




Telephone
 The telephone made a very big impact in the communication all aorund the globe, before this, people used to send telegrams, but with the arrival of the telephone people could speak with a person who was at the other side of the world with just a simple telephone call, only the richiest people had a telephone in the XIX century, nowadays all the society has the necessity to have one.



 Radio 
The arrival of the radio made this the most important media of massive communication in the world, with the radio a person could send a message to thousands of people, nowadays it is still one of the most important media of massive communication, exists a lot of radio stations all around the globe and millions of people who still hear it all the days.