Inventions
Who invented the first aeroplane?
The Wright Brothers
What was the youngest child to work in the factories/mines?
5 years old
What job involves getting soot all over you?
Chimney Sweep
What was the name for the rich bosses of factories?
Capitalist
What was the average age for men in 1850?
40.3 years
What machine was invented to make fabric faster?
Spinning Jenny
True or False.
Men got paid less than women?
False
What job started with Powder?
Powder Monkey
Who were the people that smashed up machines?
Luddites
Who lived longer men or women?
Women
Who invented the Rabies vaccine?
Louis Pasteur
True of False
Women lived longer than men during the Industrial Revolution?
True
What job involved working in dark and dirty caves?
Mining
What was 1 thing that happened to the Luddites?
They were arrested
They were sent to Australia
They were killed
(students can name 1 thing to get points)
What was one type of medicine that improved life expectancy?
Antibiotics
Who invented dynamite?
Alfred Nobel
True or False. People worked longer than 12 hours a day
True
What job involved digging in the mud?
Mudlarks
Why did the Luddites smash the machines?
Because they they lost their jobs to the machines.
What was 1 thing that made people die earlier?
Dangerous jobs
Dirty and unhygienic homes and cities (lots of germs around)
Illness from working in mines - chest and lung infections
Who invented the steam engine?
James Watt
What workers were made to crawl under machines to fix them?
Children
What job involved working with dangerous machines and long hours?
Factory work.
What did the capitalists want?
To be rich
To be powerful
To produce lots of products
(Students can name 1 to get the points)
What is 1 thing that helped people live longer?
Germ theory
Antibiotics
Hospitals
Clean water and toilets
Antiseptic