Technological+Advancements


 * __ ﻿ The Steam Locomotive __**

 The Industrial Revolution was starting and new inventions were soon the new works of the world. The need for new supplies by popular demand, spurred the growth of the Industrial Revolution. This soon met the demands that were once required in Jane Austen’s era of the Industrial Revolution of the 1800’s. One of the Technological Advances of Jane Austen’s age was the steam locomotive or engine.A popular demand of the 1800’s was steam for new ideas to come to life. Steam was very important in new machines used in factories to get more things done at a faster pace. If a simple gas like steam could get all of this done in factories than just think of what steam can get done in other realms of work and progress. The Water Frame first inspired the steam engine and a whole new line of works. The Water Frame which was a water worked wheel could be used anywhere by factories to keep machinery running. Many waterworks had their own railway and they had many water work locomotives that worked just fine like the steam engines .They were the future and truthfully more reliable as the time would go by in the 1800’s.These engines worked very similar to how the Steam engine works anywhere.James Watts invented the Steam Engine which led to many more inventions like the Steam Locomotive, the first created steam engine. The steam in the Steam Engine created energy to power a lot of things including works associated with trains. In 1801 Richard Trevithick invented a steam-powered carriage, which let passengers travel on the roads.This led to 1804 when the Steam Locomotive was the first train on rails which Richard Trevithick revised in 1808. George Stephenson revised it even more and in 1814 was called upon as chief engineer of the first railway. In many ways the inventors of Jane Austens time made the technological advances become even more advanced today. Also there must have been a great impact on who used these inventions during this period. These are some of the causes by which were formed by inventors in Jane Austens period.



__**Causes of the Industrial Revolution **__


 * People got around faster and easier on trains
 * workers worked in a less dangerous environments
 * items were being made easier and faster in factories
 * people grasped new technology with an open eyes which made everyones life easier

__**The galvonometer and the stethoscope **__ __**﻿ **__ In the era of Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice two of the many important inventions of that time were one, the galvanometer which is used to detect, measure and determine the direction of small electric currents by means of mechanical effects produced by a current carrying coil in a magnetic field. The most common and modern galvanometer is a movable coil type called d'Arsonval galvanometer. A pointer is attached to the moving coil so that it passes over a suitably calibrated scale. This is named after Arsened d' Arsonval, a French physicist, who created this in 1881. Today technology is much more advanced and the use of the galvanometer has been decreased, but still is used in many small applications of measurement technologies. The second important invention of this era was the stethoscope. The stethoscope enables you to hear the sounds made by the heart, the lungs and various other organs. It was invented by a Franch physician named R.T.H. Laennec in the early 19th century. It is said that in 1816 Laennec heard the scratching of a pin transmitted through the length of a wooden beam. This inspired him to make a slender wooden tube about a foot long, one end of which had a broad bell shaped opening. When the opening was placed on the chest of the patient he put his ear against the opposite opening and could hear the sounds of breathing and of the heart beating. The stethoscope changed very little until the beginning of the 20th century. It is now usually seen as two earpieces with flexable rubber tubing connecting them to the two-branced metal chest cone. This allows the physician to ear with both ears. The stethoscope is a common medical instrument used in doctors offices every day. There were many great advances in technology in the Pride and Prejudice era, but the stethoscope and the galvanometer are two of the most important.



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