Western Civilization In The 1800s

Western Civilization has come a long way since the 1800s. From transportation to technology, women’s rights to education, the Western world is improving every day. As humans, we struggle to evolve and survive, but it is this struggle that has helped us get to where we are and will help us to continue to advance into the future. An example of this struggle lies in the Industrial Revolution where big changes in technology and industry were occurring. During the Industrial Revolution, technological advancements such as the steam engine brought powers like Great Britain and Germany to the forefront of industry and transportation. This new technology enabled people to travel beyond where their imagination could take them and was the spark that lit technological advancement through the

Sometime after cars hit the market industries began to produce other modes of transportation, like the train, steam ships, and eventually the plane. While transportation was being developed and altered, engineers, inventors, and scientists, in general, were hard at work developing things like the telegraph, plumbing and sewage systems, medicine, and most importantly electricity. Without electricity, all modern-day conveniences many of us take for granted would no longer exist. Medicine would still rely on apothecaries to determine if we were healthy by looking at our blood, bile, and phlegm. Things like lights, street lamps, computers, and phones would cease to exist. The world was being lit up, literally, and with all these new ideas and inventions soon it wasn’t just technology and transportation that was advancing. Women’s rights were on the up. In 1870 in Great Britain the Married Women’s Property Act gave wives control over wages they earned. In 1871 Cambridge University established a women’s college, although they couldn’t be awarded