Why 1900 and the Global Infrastructure Snapshot

Explains why 1900 is the last year of the 19th century and surveys world population, life expectancy, railways, steamships, telegraphs, electricity, and early telephones.

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The year 1900 was a pivotal year in world history. It was the end of the 19th century and on the cusp of the 20th century.

Many of the technical advances that would come to define the next 100 years were just being unleashed.

Social and economic changes were unfolding that would revolutionize the world. The changes that the world had seen in the 19th century were only a taste of what would come over the next century.

Learn more about the world in the year 1900 and how the world had changed over the last 50 years on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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