Sequencing Science and Culture, 1848 to 1913

The idea

Put the unit's dates on one line and the pattern shows. Realism begins with eighteen forty-eight; Pasteur's experiments from eighteen fifty-four; Darwin's Origin in eighteen fifty-nine; Mendel's paper in eighteen sixty-five; Britain's suffrage society in eighteen sixty-seven; The Descent of Man in eighteen seventy-one; the first Impressionist show in eighteen seventy-four; Bell's telephone in eighteen seventy-six; Ferry's schools in eighteen eighty-two; the word "feminist" in eighteen ninety; Mendel rediscovered in nineteen hundred; the Protocols in nineteen oh-three, the Suffragettes the same year; the Derby in nineteen thirteen. The pattern: the sciences came first, in the fifties and sixties; their misuse and the mass culture that spread them came in the seventies and eighties; the militant movements, feminist and anti-Semitic, came after eighteen ninety. Practice by naming which decade each belongs to before checking the year.