Life at the Turn of the Century

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Chapter 8

• Life at the Turn of the Century

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Section 1

• Science and Urban Life

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Technology and City Life

• Brooklyn Bridge
• 1,595 feet
• Connects Brooklyn to Manhattan
• Steel-cable suspension bridge
• Opened 1883
• Sometimes called 8th wonder of the world
• 14 years to build
• Steel-cable suspension bridges brought sections
  of cities closer together

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Skyscrapers

• Space-saving
• Taller
• Elevator
• Internal steel skeleton

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Wainwright Building

• Louis Sullivan
• 1890 St. Louis
• 10 stories
• Proud and soaring thing
• Red brick office building (even today)

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Electric Transit

• 1888 Richmond, Virginia
• First electric urban transit
• Frank Sprague

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The Science of Urban Planning

• Frederick Law Olmsted
• Farmer
• Surveyor
• Journalist
• Landscape architect

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Olmsted

• Spearheaded the movement for planned urban parks
• 1858 Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed New Yorks
  Central Park

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Central Park

• Olmsted saw the park as a rustic haven
• Olmsted hoped the parks beauty would soothe the
  citys inhabitants and let them enjoy a natural
  setting

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Daniel Burnham
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Burnham

• Chicago architect
• Designed plan for the city
• Elegant parks along Lake Michigan
• Today Chicagos lakefront features curving
  banks of grass and sandy beaches instead of a
  jumble of piers and warehouses

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Communication

• Airplanes and Mail Delivery
• Orville and Wilbur Wright
• Bicycle mfgs in Dayton, Ohio
• 1st successful flight
• 12-17-1903 at Kitty Hawk, NC
• 120 feet in 12 seconds
• Public paid little attention
• Result U.S. Govt est. 1st transcontinental
  airmail service in 1920

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Printing

• William Bullock
• Electric web-perfecting press
• Printed on both sides of a continuous paper roll
• Cut and fold and count pages
• Lower costs of newspapers and magazines

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Web-perfecting Press
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Ottmar Mergenthaler

• Linotype machine
• Streamlined the setting of type
• More efficient
• Improved newspapers, magazines and books

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Photography

• George Eastman
• Kodak camera - 1888
• Made delayed photo processing possible