Phonograph

Many young people, if not most, just wanted to dance. Cars gave people new possibilities, it allowed them to go where they pleased and do what they wanted. Jazz bands played at dance halls, radio stations and phonograph records gave people music across the country. While younger people enjoyed the freedom they felt in the dance floor, some older people did not like the vulgarity in some jazz music. The 1920s are sometimes referred to as the “age of paranoia”…

Jane Addams, born in Cedarville, Illinois in September of 1860, broke many borders as a woman of her time. She is best known for her efforts in creating peace as well as advocating equality for women. She is represented today and in American history by the many organizations she established: the International League for Peace, Woman’s Peace Party, Juvenile Protective Association, and American Civil Liberties Union. Addams had strong opinions about the idea of peace reaching the farthest corners…

mechanize, work times decreased significantly and wages rose by 25 percent. Because of this, Americans had more money and time to spend on all kinds of public amusements. By 1929, American families spent 20% of their household earnings on items such as phonographs, factory-made furniture, radios, electric appliances, automobiles, and entertainment. Even if they couldn't afford what they wanted, they would borrow it. This definitely relates to us today. Women and men are able to live alone, dates…

work in his lab than go to sleep in his bed. He had a sleep schedule of four to five hours each night. Hard work and little sleep: that is the basis on which America was built. For Edison, a lab is what started it all. His passion for creating the phonograph displayed effort and his love for his craft. He never stopped on an invention; he continued until it was completed (US Energy Information Administration). We are a country known for wanting to strive to be number one and be the best country…

What Foner meant as the “Second Industrial revolution” was, “The country enjoyed abundant natural resources, a growing g supply of labor, an expanding marked for manufactured goods, and the availability of capital for investment…in addition, the federal government actively promoted industrial and agricultural development”.(1) The main components for the second industrial revolution started with the government granting land to railroad companies to encourage construction in the west and to also…

Conceived on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, Thomas Edison ascended from humble beginnings to fill in as an innovator of significant innovation. Setting up a lab in Menlo Park, a portion of the items he created incorporated the transmit, phonograph, the primary monetarily handy brilliant electric light, soluble capacity batteries and Kinetograph (a camera for films). He kicked the bucket on October 18, 1931, in West Orange, New Jersey. At age 12, Edison embarked to give a lot of that…

The Jazz Age in the 1920s was filled with many different aspects that morphed the United States into a more modern and advanced country. One of the most impressive parts of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age was the new style of literature being published. The literary modernism, which developed in the 1910s and 1920s, was built on the foundations of realism and impressionism of authors like William Dean Howells and Sherwood Anderson.1 These more modern authors that emerged in the 1920s,…

Laura Wingfield in Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie is an interesting and complex character. She lives during the industrialized era of American history. During this time, business became cold and impersonal, and the living environments were often harsh, overcrowded, and dirty. This severe environment is difficult for Laura to deal with. She is delicate and fragile, both emotionally and physically. She does not know how to connect with people, and her incredible shyness isolates her from…

objects. His talents awarded him the opportunity of attending the Craiova School of Arts and Crafts in Romania. It is said that at the age of 18 Brancusi was able to create a violin using only the materials around him. He had also built his own phonograph, furniture and utensils. Over time, Brancusi’s art work would lead him to Paris where he we would learn and create art with Antonin Mercie and August Rodin. As famous as Brancusi would become in France and Romania, he had an overwhelming…

Hot coffee is a morning staple in the United States. But it often tends to go cold when you need to run to the bathroom or are putting your attention on something else for that matter. This is because of one word…. “Insuation”. On people’s morning commute they usually use plastic or metal to-go cups. That claim to have double-wall insulation. “The cheap ones with air between two walls do little to keep anything hot” (Carolyn Sherlock, 2012). So what’s the best solution, a glass coffee cup or mug…