Project Nellie Bly

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Industrial Revolution

1750-1850

A major turning point in world history

Why many people didn't believe Phileas Fogg could travel the globe in 80 days?

Phileas Fogg

A time without a schedule 

It was never done before 

Difficult parts of the world such as Colonial India

Trains and steamships weren't trust worthy 

For what reason the book of Jules Verne became so popular among readers?

Start with introduction assignment 

Seccond Lesson 

Fill in Logbook 

Study the important terms 

Divide tasks

Start your project

Logbook 

Date:               Name every member: 

Beginning: What are you going to do? 

End: What did you do?

We start with some research

Find out in your group:

1. What caused the European Industrial Revolution (IR)? §5.1 
2. What is urbanisation and why is it a consquence of the IR? Internet 
3. What is imperialism and why is it a consequence of the IR? §6.3
4. What new inventions were made during the IR? §5.1; §6.2

What caused the European Industrial Revolution (IR)?

Spinning Jenny

Cotton Gin

- What is urbanisation and why is it a consquence of the IR?

Urbanisation

Mechanisation

From city to urban area

A process of urbanisation and suburbanisation

- What is imperialism and why is this a consequence of the IR?

The British Empire and the Industrial Revolution

- What new inventions were made during the IR?

Modernisation

Industrial revolution > modernisation > led to many new inventions 

What would you need to travel the world in the end of the 19th century?

What would you need to travel the world in the end of the 19th century (being a women)?

Elisabeth Cochrane

Elizabeth Cochran in May 1864 in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Dreamed of being a writer for a newspaper.

Travel the globe

Nellie Bly would try to travel the world in 80 days with the help of all new inventions around the year 1889!