We often think of ourselves as living in a time of (0) CONTINUAL (CONTINUE) technological change and development. We tend to believe that we are unique in history in dealing with a constantly 1EVOLVE world of gadgets, devices and innovations. However, the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth was also a time that saw many 2REVOLT changes. People had needed to show 3FLEXIBLE throughout the nineteenth century, as the effects of the Industrial Revolution meant constantly making 4ADJUST to deal with changing working conditions. Towards the end of the century, though, people had to become more 5ADAPT than ever before. The typewriter (1873), the telephone (1876), the electric light bulb (1879) and other 6INFLUENCE developments gave people the 7CAPABLE to live and work in ways their grandparents could not have imagined. Over the next 30 years, little remained 8ALTER as the camera, the cinema, the phonograph, the plane and radio all had an electrifying effect on people and society.