Inventions of industrial revolution affects people’s life, some of them even changed
the world. How did the invention of cars impact the people in 19th century compared
to the impact that metro system has had on society in 21st century? Cars in the 19th
century did improve the transportation for people but it was not that popularized
because it could only be afforded by wealthy people, the invention of metro system in
21st century did improve every peoples life because it is affordable for everyone.
During the late 19th century, when cars first came out, people were still afraid of it,
but when people started to find out what advantages they brought to them they started
to accept it. In the book, Henry Ford and Grass-roots America, it says “The public
image of the automobile improved following the San Francisco earthquake and fire of
April 18,1906. During these tragic days, autos were driven through fire, smoke,
explosions, and debris to rescue victims and to carry doctors, city officials, and rescue
squads. These cars carried food supplies, medicines, send the wounded to hospitals
and transported nurses to aid the victims.”(Wik, Reynold M. Henry Ford and Grassroots
America. N.p.:The-University-Of-Michigan-Press, 1972. Print.) Most people in the
society were against cars at the beginning because they are fast and made a loud
noise. Rich people drive their cars to rural areas, they drive fast through the streets, car
accidents happen, people get killed by cars, these are the reason why people were
afraid of cars. Few years later, people started to realize that they could have lots of
advantages with cars. The quote shows how it bring advantages to the society. Without
cars, it might cause lots of death at that time. Its speed saved a lot of time. With the help
of automobile, it made things better and saved peoples life. When people started to
accept cars, how did the society change because of the use of cars?
After few years when people started to accept cars, and when it started to be
more popularization, it impacts the society much more then it used to have. According
to David L, Lewis and Laurence Goldstein’s book, The Auto Mobile and American
Culture, “The arrival of the automobile during the first years of this century had a
profound influence on rural Americans. Not only did it substantially alter modes of travel,
it affected the economy, changed the structure of social life, and became part of the
cultural civilization.”(Lewis, David L., and Laurence Goldstein, eds. The Automobile and
American Culture. N.p.: The-University-of-Michigan-Press, 1980. Print.) Rural areas of
