key questions and primary source

Key questions

Topic: Science

Questions to consider:

-       What machinery was created?

-       How science changed way of life?

-       What effects science had on the environment?

-       Was there any war machinery created?

-       How much did science change Britain?

-       Did Science make Britain wealthier or poorer?

-       Was it sudden or gradual (change)?

-       How did science change transportation?

Sub questions

Who benefitted from the industrial revolution?

How did the industrial revolution change the environment?

How did the industrial revolution change ways of transport and trading?

Research question: How did science change Britain and what were the most significant changes?

Primary Source:

Victorian technology bbc

Origin: Victorian technology is an article written by Paul Atterbury. It was published in 2011 in the United States.

Value: the article talks about trading in Britain and how it changed. It talks about how trading in britian affected other countries and how trading changed.

Purpose: Inform readers about the changes in British technology as a result of the industrial revolution.

Limitations: doesn’t tell us how science changed way of life. Or was the change fast or slow and it does not tell us how science changed the environment.

Victorian web technology and leisure

Origin: Technology and Leisure in Britain after 1850 is an article that was written in 1996 by Stephen Hall Clark in the University of Sunderland.

Value: talks about how Technology changed leisure in Victorian times in Britain. It talks about new technology like the steam press and how it affected other people and it also talks about sea side resorts.

Purpose: is to inform people how technology was in Britain in 1850

Limitations: it does not tell us how it affected the environment or was there any war machinery created or did these changes make britian wealthier or poorer.

19th Century Europe Project

      Yes, my country experienced a mass uprising in 1848. It occurred because the economic crisis of 1845 to 1847 led to decline and food shortages throughout the continent. And also conflicts between debtors and creditors in agricultural manufacture as well as over land use rights in parts of Hungary led to the revolution. There is also lack of freedom press and association. Also tension came with Catholicism and different religions. The mass uprising was conducted because of the riots in March 15^th, 1848. March 15^th was the day that a group of Magyar nationalists rioted in Pest-Buda. Yes, it was violent. Only the people that did not benefit from what was going on participated. The people demanded political independence for Hungary from Austria. A little parentage of their demands was fulfilled. The riots in March 15^th resulted in Klemens von Metternich, the Austrian prince and foreign minister, resigning.