In 1900, there were only about 9,000 cars in the world. Today, there were about 650 million.

There were telephones and radios in 1900. The first telephone was in 1876 and the first radio was in 1895.

The journey accross the Atlantic from New York to Europe was really quite fast in 1900. On the first ship it was about 6 days.

There were about 1 and a half billion people in the world in 1900. Today, there were about 6 billion.

Most women were housewives in 1900. And a lot of women were also servants. There weren't many women with other jobs.

There were some women at university but not many. For example, at Oxford university in 1900 there were less than 200 women. Today, there were more than 7,000 women.

Both California and Florida were part of the USA in 1900. All 50 states were in the USA by 1900.


Vienna was the capital of the Austrian empire and so, it was very important 1900. Hollywood was a small village near Los Angeles.

Moscow wasn't the capital of Russia. The capital was St. Petersburg.

Abraham Lincoln wasn't the president of the United States in 1900. He was president more than 40 years before that, from 1861 to 1865. The president in 1900 was William McKinley.