“The Annihilation of Space and Time”

-Tech changed the human experience the most between 1880-1920
(some good and bad/destabilizing)

-Biggest were railroads and telegraphs in 1840’s most popular

-the first pic of a human being was in 1838, pic of Paris, frozen
(pics made people last forever, no time limits or death changed their existence)

-Refrigerated rail cars in 1880, made it possible to ship food, which changed people’s diets

-In 1830, every city/town had their own source of time (the sun) time depended on where you were on earth

-In the U.S by 1880, cities formed into regions near railroads

-By 1883, U.S was broken into 4 different time zones
Now the time of day depended on telegraph signals

-A central clock located in Washington DC determined time and space

-by 1853 time at work changed according to sunlight, winter shorter days and summer had long work days *Electric Light changed this
-with electric lights people now had set work hours daily, yearly

-by 1880 the U.S was heavily wired with electricity, telephones, and telegraphs

-Wire created “The Annihilation of Space and Time”

-Edition Invented movies: though they would be used to train people for industry jobs they were later transformed into forms of entertainment
movies were invented, captured moments in time
(movement and motion can now be recorded and broken down into distinct moments of time) -movies and photographs motions were popular by 1900
-Edison also invented cylinders commercially in the 1910s

*Emile Berliner created records “flat disks that replaced cylinders (a form of music production)