How did technology affect the 19th cenutry?

Question

I need to know how technogoly affected the 19th century for my project. Any help?

Answer 1

Well the Industrial Revolution really starts to boom in nineteenth-century Europe, and its effects on Europe are pretty substantial. A few examples:

- The development of industries leads to a greater concentration of the population in cities-- the world becomes more urbanised.
- Pollution in these cities due to the ash spewed out of factories (this ash even led to some evolutionary changes in a certain species of moth - the Peppered Moth... they evolved to have black wings that allowed them to better hide from predators because they were the same colour as the ash that was everywhere).
- More children are employed under dangerous conditions in factories and mines.
- While factory owners were by and large pretty wealthy, their workers were left to live in relative squalor, in close quarters. The working class was especially subject to disease and infection, though conditions were starting to improve in the 19th Century.

Answer 2

the american civil war was during that time period and that brought about factories and assembly lines. products were no longer individually hand made so they could be made faster and cheaper and easier to fix if broken. sewing machines were invented during this time so clothing became more accessible and cheaper. The cotton gin was invented and many other agricultural machines that made it easier to grow adn harvest food.