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Technology & Daily Life

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

TECHNOLOGY&DAILY LIFE

BY BEATRIZ MARTINEZ, BEVERLY LOPEZ, ARTIE RODRIGUEZ

DAILY LIFE IN THE 1920S

  • New advancements,New Discoveries, New. Inventions
  • Improved American life's in many good ways.
  • Left Americans with more time for entertainment and recreation.
  • High increase in productivity during this time
Photo by ecstaticist

INVENTIONS(CARS)

  • The change during the decade was the mass prod. Of cars
  • Henry ford was the inventor (1920s)
  • Manufactured and sold 15 million models by 1927
  • Automobile provided a good way for people to socialize
  • And make friends.

USE OF TIME ?

  • During this period many inventions came out
  • Many vacuum cleaners, washing machines
  • And refrigerators increased
  • So Americans could enjoy doing housework

INVENTIONS (MORE)

  • Television 1924- john logic Baird
  • Videophone 1927- USA
  • Frozen food 1924- Clarence Birdseye
  • Electric razor 1927- Jacob Schlick
  • Adhesive bandages 1920- Eagle Dickson
Photo by april-mo

MOST IMPORTANT CATALYST FOR SOCIAL CHANGE?

  • Many women used the cars to save time in their domestic chores
  • Liberating Americans from restrictive home or
  • Neighborhood bad situations

MUSIC DURING 1920S

  • Jazz was the music of popular choice
  • Duke Ellington, Al Johnson, we're jazz musicians
  • Popular musician/ composer George Gershwin
  • Popular dance was knows as charleston
Photo by lorenzog.

FACTS!

  • League of Nations established 1920
  • Pancho villa retires - 1927
  • First commercial broadcast
  • Woman granted the right to vote in USA
  • F Scott Fitzgerald publishes the great gatsby 1920