Factory Acts

The Cincinnati Museum The Cincinnati Museum was built in 1933, originally as the Cincinnati Union Terminal (a train terminal). This terminal was a passenger station in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, Cincinnati, Ohio was a bustling metropolitan area - a hub for transportation and activity. Goods and supplies were shipped in and out of the city everyday. Because of the city’s central location in the continental United States, Cincinnati became an…

Today my classmate gave a presentation on St. Petersburg and psychological movements of the time period such as Romanticism and Realism. The aspect of the presentation that gave me the most insight into the novel, Crime and Punishment, was the information on St. Petersburg. After the death of Tzar Nicholas I, St. Petersburg morphed from its previous militaristic state under the reign of Tzar Alexander II. He moved away from the militaristic society and abolished serfdom. This resulted in many…

Robert chambers was born in 1809 and introduced to a time of which the industrial revolution occurred. It was a bustling era of which coincidentally was a time of which Europe was rich and had many inventors. During childhood Robert chambers was an ambitious person about truth and knowledge, it allowed him to have the curiosity to learn more about the world around him. He undertook a curriculum on geology and biology of which later became a fundamental basis of which he based his research.…

The Grand Rapids Chair Company represented a partnership between Grand Rapids sawmills and lumber mills. The site is notable for its adaptation both to changes in ownership and the demands of the furniture industry, through which it impacted the surrounding community of laborers. Sanborn Fire Insurance maps show several additions to the building since its construction, the two largest being the expansion to abut Monroe Street, apparent on the 1912 map, and the Baker Furniture addition, built at…

Sweatshops are defined as factories or workshops, specializing in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. Workers are trapped in an awful cycle of exploitation, they are made to pay a certain amount of money, usually between $1,000 - $2,000, and are rarely ever paid and if so they are paid less than the minimum wage, less than their daily expenses and are never able to save up any money. Jordan is one of the many…

Besides textile industry, industries born after the industrial revolution started from the Great Britain also changed Philadelphia. Paper, leather and textile industries were still very common. Meanwhile, heavy industries such as the coal and iron industry also emerged. The introduction of steam engine and railroad created a larger market coverage for Philadelphia’s manufacturing industries and help businessman sell their goods farther away. After World War II, specially 1970’s, the United…

In chapter four Nye describes, “Technology momentum” as “a particularly useful concept for understanding large-scale systems, such as the electric grid, the railway, or the automobile (Nye p 52). He began to describe who the bicycle was the most used transportation in some countries and how eventually automobiles where used instead. However, only the automobile was able to achieve “technology momentum” in some countries. In Netherlands and Denmark the bicycle reached momentum for about 40 years…

a speedier pace than ever before, leading to an increase in supply and demand. With the increase of manufacturing and demand, wealthy individuals or families who owned businesses managed to remain on the top tier of the social class. Middle class factory owners and workers who were fortunate enough to become successful were able to move into the upper tier. The huge influx of new wealth, jobs, and opportunities created by industrialization allowed for many women to transition roles form…

increased the mass production of coal out of the mines. The world was becoming an industrialized place before the advent of steam power, but would never have progressed so quickly without it. Factories would still rely on water and wind energy because the steam engine could malfunction. James Watt explained that factories maybe build anywhere in the world. James Watt developed the idea of horse power as a measurement horses spinning a machine to power cogs. Steam power is used today to allow…

The main wave-a human progress taking into account horticulture and handwork-was a similarly primitive stage that started as civic establishments shaped and went on for a great many years. The second rush of progress the modern unrest covered with the first wave. The modern unrest started in Great Britain toward the eighteenth's end century and proceeded throughout the following 150 years, moving society from a prevalently agrarian society to the urbanized machine age. Steel plants, material…