Henry Bessemer

Henry Bessemer was the son of Anthony Bessemer, an inventor who created a new way to craft gold chains.(lemelson.mit.edu) The discovery of this method allowed the Bessemer family to move to England,(lemelson.mit.edu) where Henry was born. Young Henry was a protégé of his father. At the age of 17, Henry revolutionized the way that stamps were dated, leading to vast financial savings for the postal service.(lemelson.mit.edu) This successful endeavor inspired Henry to live a life of invention and discovery. Over the course of his career, he patented over 100 inventions including a sugar crusher. a dating system for stamps, and the Bessemer Converter. As a result of these market innovations and patents, Henry faced almost no adversity due to the…

His main innovations in the manufacturing industry included “cost control, low prices, low profits”(206). Many entrepreneurs such as Henry Ford and Pierre du Pont followed Carnegie’s lead. Carnegie started the trend of profit maximization by cost-cutting. Carnegie knew that “machines cost less than men,” and he also learned “what each of the man men working at the furnaces was doing” and “who saved material, who wasted it, and who produced the best results”(99). Using this data that he…

resulting in more stress. The rapid spread of factories during the Civil War marked the beginning of workers’ strife, as factories would provide the basis for their abuse. Factory conditions were deplorable: cramped working spaces, little to no sunlight, dangerous machines around every corner, and noxious fumes that polluted the air—all of which bound the American worker in chains and resulted in a decline of health. Just as the cotton gin revived southern slavery and increased the workload…

1. J.P. Morgan- He was a banker who brought stability and rationality to the national economy. He integrated railroads, insurance companies, and banks to make business run with more ease. John D. Rockefeller- He was a an oil tycoon who created his monopoly by taking control of all of his competition. Andrew Carnegie- He made his fortune by incorporating the Bessemer Steel Process into his steel manufacturing business. He donated a university, because he believed it …

Petroleum, Chemical, Maritime Technology, Rubber, Bicycles, Automobile, Applied science, fertilizer, Engines and Turbines, Telecommunications, and Modern Business management . Having such a large number of categories and advancements in not only the United States, but in the entire world, the world seemed to explode into a new, more efficient and smarter age. With so many advancements, life went through a railroad between better and worse living situations. Many important people of this time…

Andrew Carnegie began working for Tom Scott at the age of 12. Scott liked Carnegie and hired him as a personal assistant. In 1868 Scott asked Carnegie to build a bridge across the Mississippi River, to be the largest bridge to ever be built in America. Carnegie has no idea how to build it so he looks for advice from Keystone bridge builders. He decided to use steel, a relatively new material to the time. It was extremely expensive and hard to mass produce tho, no one have ever tried to use steel…

Henry Ford is an example of how economic and social policies of successive Republic Governments contributed to a world of inequality. Henry Ford Henry Ford the genius behind the successful assembly line mass production of products; in his case; the motor car. Born in Dearborn Michigan in 1893 into a farming family. Henry was educated at the local school. At the age of sixteen he became a machinist apprentice. Henry was raised as an Episcopalian. He had very strong views, he believed in…

Exploitation Leading to a Worse Tomorrow A new president is elected every four years to run our nation, represent the country, and uphold the Constitution of the United States. The President of the United States acts as the most powerful man in the world and therefore, we must place our trust into his hands. When the society discovers that their elected president becomes untrustworthy and secretive , a bond is broken. The Watergate Scandal of Richard Nixon and the most notorious political…

“Ever’body’s askin’ that. What we comin’ to? Seems to me we don’t never come to nothin’. Always on the way. Always goin’ and goin’,” Casy stated in chapter 13 of the Grapes of Wrath. The end of the novel is strange, and incredibly open-ended. It is never revealed what happens to the Joads or who finally makes it in the end. It isn’t even known if the starving man actually survives. The final act and image in the novel is also a bit out there, with Rose of Sharon suckling this grown man to keep…

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is a heart wrenching and eye opening novel. Steinbeck gives a clear and precise picture with the words he employs. One recurring perspective, abundantly obvious, is prejudism. Anger, fear and misunderstanding flow between the Californians and the Oklahoma immigrants, all of which cause a double-sided prejudice. As the Oklahomans come in droves from their devastated lands and attempt to build a new life for themselves, the Californians angrily look at them…