Molasses

1. Introduction This memo is a failure analysis report on the Boston Molasses Disaster. On January 15, 1919, an industrial storage tank ruptured, causing 9 million litres of molasses to spill out onto the streets of Boston. The following sections of this report document the events leading up to and during the disaster, the causes that led to the failure, and the lessons that can be learned as a result. 2. Description The tank in question was owned by United States Industrial Alcohol Company (USIA) and located at 529 Commercial Street in Boston’s densely populated North End (see Figure 1) (Dyrud, 2009, para. 12). Only two days after the completion of the tank, 700 000 gallons of molasses were deposited into the tank. Loud rumblings sounds and leaks were immediately observed. Many complaints were made to the company, but they were categorically ignored. In 1918, however, they had the previously…

On April 5, 1764, British Parliament pass a new tax, which took place of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733). This act caused taxes on imports of sugar, coffee, and other goods entering the ports of the American colonies and was created and designed by England to raise funds to recover the French and Indian War damage. This meant that all colonial merchants were required to pay a tax of six percent of a total gallon to import foreign molasses. It started by, getting harder to load and unload cargo…

rum, while keeping their own prices the same, the Crown sought to make its American citizens pay for molasses products at a much higher price. When the import tax of both French and English molasses products was comparable, the French product was cheaper while at the same time of almost equal quality to English molasses. Because of this, Americans bought the French product more often than the English product, leading to a much larger supply of molasses for the English versus the French. After…

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Time is an independent factor. The population of the yeast is a dependent variable. The controlled variables of the number of yeast in the initial population, the temperature/sunlight the yeast the yeast were in, the amount of space they gave the yeast the grow in, and the amount of food the yeast receive. As food for the yeast, they were using molasses. Molasses is the thick dark to light brown syrup that is separated from raw sugar in sugar manufacture (Merriam-Webster, Molasses). The yeast…

The American Revolution From 1763 to 1775, Great Britain and the British Colonists were in constant disagreement.Britain and Parliament thought of the colonists as beneath them and that their purpose was to serve them.The British Colonists insisted they were full British citizens and demanded equal rights.They did not think it was fair of Britain to tax them without fair representation, and recognized the fact that Britain did not see them as equals.The Colonists ignored their obligations to…

The Navigation acts were a series of laws put into place by England. Written and put into place by Parliament in 1650, these rules were designed to benefit English trade. Throughout the following 200 years while the Navigation Acts were in place, three more versions were created, adding on to the original. The Navigation Acts put limitations on trade with other countries and the colonies. Foreign ships were not allowed to trade directly with the colonies. Everything had to go through England…

The common thread in all of the situations described is slavery. The Triangle Trade sent rum to Africa to buy slaves which were then sent to The Caribbean to work the sugar plantations making more sugar and molasses which were then sent to New England to make more rum and the cycle begins again, although roughly 80% of the manufactured rum remained in the states and were bought and drank by locals at taverns. Slaves paid for themselves within a year of working at a plantation, the rest of the…

the American’s not been sold this tea, or felt singled out by having it sold to them, they would not have had a reason to act out like they did. If Parliament provided the birthrights of life, liberty, and property to the colonies, the colonists would not need complete independence from Britain. General Grenville’s policies were really the starting point for the colonists exploring the thought of colonial rights. Grenville’s policies included the Molasses Act, Sugar Act, Currency Act, Stamp…

Sugar Act The Parliament of Great Britain passed The Sugar Act on April 5, 1764. It was created so that they could collect revenue from the British colonies and from America. Imported sugar and molasses were taxed. This negatively affected New England’s rum production. Sugar Act Definition (h2) In the 1700s it was highly lucrative to manufacture rum and this would mean great profits for Britain via taxation. Consequently they decided to create the Sugar Act and enforce it in their colonies.…