Early Victorian
This utopian society was also known as The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing and was the most successful utopian society in the US.
What are the Shakers?
This man was the inventor of the automobile.
Who is Carl Benz?
This law initiated the crime wave of the 20s and 30s.
What is Prohibition?
This was heavily padded upholstery pierced by a regular, geometric pattern of buttons that was characteristic of Victorian furniture
What is tufting?
This was low-cost and often highly sentimental decorative chinaware, decorative objects, and paintings meant to be displayed on a table or in a cabinet
What is bric-a-brac or knick-knack?
This technological advance made painted portraits obsolete and gave way to the impressionist painters
What is the invention of photography
This man was the inventor of the assembly line
Who is Ransom P. Olds?
He was the first man to fly from New York to Paris, becoming an international celebrity
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This was a type of Rococo Revival couch or chair in which the back was shaped as one or more ovals.
What is balloon back?
This writing team wrote 14 comic operettas from 1887-1896.
Who are W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan?
Pre-fabrication of what building materials revolutionized not only architecture, but also railroads?
What is cast iron?
This machine, developed during this time period, allowed for many advances for clothing and costumes.
What is the sewing machine?
These two playwrights spent the modern age creating personal, confrontational theatre styles.
Who are Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill?
This was a window with a roof of its own that projected from the shingled slope of any roof style.
What is a dormer window?
This painting movement sought to do away with all pictorial representation and to treat the canvas as a surface for the direct expression of raw emotion.
What is abstract expressionism?
This furniture designer helped to develop machines to speed factory production and make intricate designs that imitated hand made furniture
Who is John Henry Belter?
This man pioneered the French Second Empire Style
Who is Baron Haussmann?
This man founded the Bauhaus Design School in Germany in 1919.
Who is Walter Gropius?
This was a four-sided gambrel-style roof characterized by two slopes with the lower slope at a steeper, more vertical angle than the upper slope that was nearly flat.
What is a Mansard Roof?
This architectural style adopted many European styles as well as ancient Egyptian motifs, adapting them so they made sense in US culture.
What is Art Deco?
This type of lighting replaced oil lamps in theatre
What is gas lighting?
This theatre was the first to use the incandescent light
What is the Savoy Theatre?
This architect believed that his buildings should be in harmony with their environment, calling his aesthetic "organic architecture".
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
This type of house framing was characterized by multiple studs placed at regular intervals that formed load-bearing walls that created an exterior membrane.
What is balloon framing?
This was the commercial style of architecture developed from Bauhaus and Modernist principles. It was characterized by buildings built with high-rise modular steel frames, glass curtain walls, flat roofs, and integrated mechanical systems.
What is international style?