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Growing up with today’s modern technology one can really take for granted where it all began. Once a person has researched these inventions it gives one greater appreciation of todays’ technology because the inventors’ idea and work to create things such as telephones, photographs, moving pictures, locomotives, large buildings with steel, and electrical equipment has made life easier for businesses and everyday living today. According To Historian John Buescher (2010) “There were two…

I have chosen the Revolution in Paint exhibit from the North Carolina Museum of Art because the art that was created during the late 18th century introduced the use of impressionism and the drastic change from artworks created and influenced by the Renaissance to those created to express a new and emerging Industrial Era. Looking over the virtual art exhibit the display begins with examples of art created and influenced by the Renaissance followed by examples new pigments, collapsible paint…

Malden Mills, a textile mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was destroyed by fire on December 11, 1995. Malden Mills was a family owned business run by the grandson of the founder, Aaron Fuerstein. The mill was the manufacturer of Polartec fabric, a high quality fabric well known for its use in outdoor apparel and sold by popular companies. Malden Mills employed over 2,400 employees and was the last major textile manufacturer in town and contributed around $100 million dollars a year into the…

The Second Revolution effect on the population grow in the Midwest increase because jobs were added in the coal, iron, oil, lumber and factory industrial, and the railroad industrial between the Pacific and the Atlantic. The population of the Midwest shifted because there was less work for farmers, so they moved to other cities. The selling goods produces by machines were much faster then what workers could do without this type of manufacturer, some members of congress resented the newly formed…

The industrial revolution was an integral part of American history, which coincided with massive economic growth due to new inventions and a larger demand for goods. The term “industrial revolution” was first credited to Louis Guillaume Otto, a French Envoy. He coined the term in a letter dated July 6th 1799 stating that France had entered a competition of sorts to industrialize. This “revolution” began in the mid-1700s and lasted through the mid-1800s. During this time many technological…

With industrialization peeking in the late 19th century everything that was daily life was bound to change one way or another. These changes varied in affect around the country in both economic and cultural ways. The biggest difference in change came from the separation of the north and south, causing life to be vastly different in those regions. The northern states were more industrialized and the south lagged behind almost like a third world country. This lead to different problems, different…

Based on New England industry, in order to expending the textile mills industry, there were two types of recruitment development, one was to recruit the young children, some of the the children start to work when they were 5 or 6-year-old, and another was to recruit women, they recruit women to work for the textile mills, most of women working since they were teen, and they would save their salary for many years and returned to their home to get married and grew their family, some of them…

The History Of Child Labor Child Labor- the use of children in business or industry, especially when illegal and or inhumane, Child Labor in WW2 was brutal. They actually used children in factories as well as camps. This got so bad that they would sometimes work the kids to their deaths. This was definitely the worst period of child labor. Also there were very few survivors of any child labor camp and any workplace or factory. As shocking as it may seem child labor was practically depended on…

“For nearly all the minors, to go on strike was to fall into homelessness. Those who lived in the closed camps lost access to their homes once the strike began, with guards at some mines rousting strikers who did not immediately leave their company-owned homes.” Blood passion written by Scott Martelle, is a book that focuses on the hardships the strikers faced. The struggles before, during, and after the Ludlow massacre. Before the massacre at Ludlow Martelle in context compares the minors to…

Written Report Our problem is that the Ft. Mitchell underpass is too dirty. At first we thought about maybe changing the underpass was better than cleaning it. We thought about maybe making a new overpass but decided against it. We decided on our final project once we split groups and then starting doing a little deeper research. The people that will be affected by this are the people that use the underpass every day. This is considered a problem because there were many little kids going…