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Question : 20
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Describe the role of 'technology' in transformation of the world in the nineteenth century.
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Describe the life of workers during the nineteenth century in England.
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Describe various steps taken to clean up
London in the nineteenth century.**
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Describe the life of workers during the nineteenth century in England.
OR
Describe various steps taken to clean up
London in the nineteenth century.**
Solution:
The making of modern global world was characterized by major discoveries and inventions. Technological inventions helped the world develop in these ways :
(i) Railways, steamships, telegraphs transformed the trade and led to easy transportation of goods and raw materials.
(ii) Technological advancements stimulated the process of industrialization, which expanded production of goods and trade.
(iii) Refrigerated ships made transportation of perishable products, like meat, over long distances easy.
(iv) There was also development of the printing press that lead to the print revolution.
(v) Communication was made easy with the invention of telephones, computers and other things like cables, network towers etc.
OR
The life of the workers in the 19th century was miserable. They were given lower wages and were made to work for longer hours. This was the reason poverty was more prominent in cities as compared to villages. They had to work in factories where the working environment was hazardous. They dealt with machines without proper training and education, which was dangerous.
People from countryside rushed to cities in search of new jobs. Only few of those, whose friends and relatives were already working in the factories could get jobs. The living conditions were very downtrodden that it was expected of such people to die in a workhouse, hospital or lunatic asylum rather than in some decent working areas. Nearly 1 million Londoners (about one-fifth of the population of London at the time) were very poor and living in unhabitable conditions.
The over-congestion was leading to epidemic diseases in the whole city. There was an urgent need to increase the number of rooms these labourers were living in. There was no proper drinking water available sometimes. Life expectancy of these poor people was nearly 29 years of age while it was near about 55 years of age for the middle and upper class people.
(i) Railways, steamships, telegraphs transformed the trade and led to easy transportation of goods and raw materials.
(ii) Technological advancements stimulated the process of industrialization, which expanded production of goods and trade.
(iii) Refrigerated ships made transportation of perishable products, like meat, over long distances easy.
(iv) There was also development of the printing press that lead to the print revolution.
(v) Communication was made easy with the invention of telephones, computers and other things like cables, network towers etc.
OR
The life of the workers in the 19th century was miserable. They were given lower wages and were made to work for longer hours. This was the reason poverty was more prominent in cities as compared to villages. They had to work in factories where the working environment was hazardous. They dealt with machines without proper training and education, which was dangerous.
People from countryside rushed to cities in search of new jobs. Only few of those, whose friends and relatives were already working in the factories could get jobs. The living conditions were very downtrodden that it was expected of such people to die in a workhouse, hospital or lunatic asylum rather than in some decent working areas. Nearly 1 million Londoners (about one-fifth of the population of London at the time) were very poor and living in unhabitable conditions.
The over-congestion was leading to epidemic diseases in the whole city. There was an urgent need to increase the number of rooms these labourers were living in. There was no proper drinking water available sometimes. Life expectancy of these poor people was nearly 29 years of age while it was near about 55 years of age for the middle and upper class people.
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