Steam Power

A gate way to mass media and transportation

By Sophie Conti

Erastus Bringham Biggelow (1814-1879)

David Landes

Prominent sector in transportation inventions

Adolphe Blanqui(1731-1802)

Erasmus Darwin(1731-1802)

“Soon the shall arm unconquer’d steam afar,drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car;or on wide waving wings expanded bear,the flying a chariot through fields of air”

“Canal Mania”Britain, 1790-1793

“Canal Mania” extends to France

- St. Quentin Canal connects with North Sea- English Channel connects with Seine

River

“Canal Mania” extends to US

- opening up of Erie Canal

Karl Marx(1818-1883)

Steam power is an “accomplished wonder of industrialization”

Frederick Koerig

Karl Marx, Freidrich Engles, Antonio Gramsci

Charles Babbage (1792-1871)

“The labour of a hundred artificers is now performed by the operations of a single machine”

Crimean War(1853-1856)

“Publish”

- The word drops its religious connotations.

NEW IDEA

• Nikolai Kondratieff (1892-1938)

• J.A. Schumpeter (1883-1950)

Francis Bacon

“We imitate flights of birds, have ships and boats for going underwater…”

- from Atlantis

mass production = mass culture = mass market

Gustave Le Bon“L’opinion et la Foule”

• Consumerism is introduced• First department stores sprout in 19th

century, starting with Paris