download your assignment DOWNLOAD LIST OF INVENTIONS
YOU MUST CITE YOUR SOURCES USING CITATION MACHINE. HERE'S HOW
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Your goal: to illustrate the effects of the Industrial Revolutions on society and the changing nature of work.
1. Choose an invention /technology: manufactured between 1750-1850 and 1850-1900. More ideas.
2. Create a poster: illustrating how it evolved throughout time, including before, during and after its invention.
3. Format: Create 4 sections or columns describing the evolution of your invention at each age. Start by placing your invention in the Industrial Age and fill in from there.
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• THE AGRICULTURAL AGE: Rural, agricultural, family-based economy, with transportation based on water and ocean paths, wind, water and human power
INCLUDE IMAGES OF INVENTION AND TEXT:
How things were done before your invention was created.
E.g. manual labour, hand tools, handicrafts animal power; traditional, agrarian practices. Picture and labeled text of invention..................................................................................................................................................................
• INDUSTRIAL AGE: Drastic transformation of the processes by which Europeans and North Americans produced goods, and the social attitudes surrounding these processes. Urban, powerful machines using new sources of power
INCLUDE IMAGES OF INVENTION AND TEXT:
- What was its function?
- Who: invented it?
- When?
- Why was it a revolutionary idea? (e.g. speeded up production, eliminated the need for workers)
- What were the working conditions for the average worker using this invention/technology during the early industrial age?
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• DIGITAL AGE (CANADA TODAY): Digitized information as a product, urban and capitalist
INCLUDE IMAGES OF INVENTION AND TEXT: of modern version of invention.
- How it is similar and different from the Industrial age version.
- How has the invention changed society positively?
- Has it contributed to environmental degradation and human suffering? OR
- If extinct, describe why no longer manufactured
- Is this invention very important to us today?
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• THE FUTURE: Your prediction for 2107
INCLUDE IMAGES OF INVENTION AND TEXT:
Invention as it may evolve 100 years from now.
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The History of Innovation and Creative Thinking - Scott Berkun at Carnegie Mellon
