Technology, Culture, and
Everyday Life, 1840-1860
CHAPTER 11
Technology
 The Antebellum Period
 New Inventions
 1840-1860
 The American Standard of Living
 New Manufacturing techniques
New Inventions
 John Deere (1837)
 Cyrus McCormick (1847)
 Wheat
 Wasteful farming
 New Fertilizer
New Inventions
 Eli Whitney and
Interchangeable parts
 Mass Production
 Samuel Colt
 Elias Howe
 Samuel F.B. Morse
The Railroad
 Conquering Time
 1860
 Connecting to the Midwest
 Shipping
 America’s First Big Business
 Wall Street
 Time Zones (1883)
Technology
 Technology affects the
price of goods
 City Development
 Job opportunities
 Women and Children
Technology
 Medicine
 Popular Health Fads
 Row Houses
 Tenements
 Frontier Log Cabins
Technology
 Conveniences and
Inconveniences
 Heating, cooking, and
diets
 Coal Burning
 Out of season foods
 Salt preservation
 Water lines
Disease and Health
 Diseases
 Municipal Boards of
Health
 The view of the
medical profession
 Anesthetics
 Surgery techniques
William T.G. Morton
Health Fads
 Hydropathy
 Grahamites
 Phrenology
Newspapers
 James Gordon Bennett
 The New York World
 Penny Papers
 Paper Boys
 Human Interest Stories
The Antebellum Period
 Entertainment
 Theater
 Minstrel Shows
 P.T. Barnum
Literature
 American Writing
 Washington Irving
 Harriet Beecher Stowe
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
 Transcendentalism
 Henry David Thoreau
 “Civil Disobedience”