Industrial design

Starting from the year 1870s, the significant art museums in the United States had established. The representative museums are Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1870), Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1876), and Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (1876; Philadelphia Museum of Art at present) (Latham & Simmons, 2014). The most important factor that brought into the changes and developments of the museum inside the United States was the change of the economic structure due to the…

Pierre Francastel and Sigfried Giedion were both analytical in their accounts of industrial revolution’s impact on architecture via the usage of mass-produced material such as iron and glass. However, the two accounts indeed took very different stands on their opinion of the machine and the progression of architecture. Bibliothѐque Sainte-Geneviѐve was indisputably one of the most remarkable examples of iron and glass applications during that era, agreed by both Francastel and Giedion. However,…

James Watt was an inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements in steam engine technology drove the Industrial Revolution. Watt did not invent the steam engine. Steam engines were already in existence, mainly being used to pump water out of mines. He made important changes to the design, increasing efficiency and making steam engines cheaper to run. James Watt was born in Greenock in 1736. He was not a healthy child and was educated at home for most of his early years. His father was…

began working on another prototype design. I sent a photo of it to my other teammates so that they would know that we had another design to think about. Had we had more time I would have discussed this design with my teammates and had them help me create the prototype. Our third and final meeting was in the testing room. It was here where we tested out our different designs, landing on the one that combined the two initial designs. Once we had decided to use the design, we made the prototype…

A third major technological advance during the Industrial Revolution was the railroad. As the United States began expanding westwards, transportation became a key issue (Editors of Publications International, Ltd). Americans sought a form of reliable, all-weather transport that could allow them easy access to other parts of the country and especially the western frontier, but none of the existing means of travel was sufficient. Walking or riding on roads, the most common form of transportation,…

In this paper the writer will consider the moral and ethical implications of reverse engineering, competitive intelligence, and corporate espionage. This is a moral issue because it involves many facets and perspectives in which morality may be derived, justified, or altogether ill applied. Especially with respect to military projects in which corporate secretes may become important, and perhaps from a national security point of view, vital. This issue is relevant, especially in the in the…

apparent in our product, the ITT, with most of its roots stretching back to the Industrial Revolution. During the Revolution, automation was developed; automated products became more popular, as they were easier to use. The ITT similarly combines automated products, like conveyor belts, robotic hands, and scanners, which work together to scan trash and then place each piece into its respective container. The Industrial Revolution also initiated important products, such as the steam engine, which…

as the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” and the ‘Father of the American Factory System”. In Britain he was known as “Slater the Traitor” (which has a way better ring to it, in my opinion) because he brought textile technology to America from Britain and modified it for use in the United States. He heard about the American’s interest in developing machines similar to the British machines. He also knew that the British had laws against exporting the designs, so he memorized the…

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…

In 1846 a man by the name Elias Howe wanted to create a machine that allowed people to sew clothing at a much greater speed. Not only would this invention be speeding up the process of making clothing in factories but also for social at-home purposes. With the invention of the sewing machine it put an end to the cotton industry and how clothing was originally made into a more sufficient process. Although sewing machines allowed for a more sufficient work process for the workers it also caused,…