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One Of The First Compton Interactive
1,504 wordsThe Chinese have long since been an enterprising group of people. Long before the introduction of Western technologies and ideas, this country has had a history of local industry dating back some 2000 years. These innovative people, from an early time, produced paper, gunpowder, and silk, and printing with one of the first movable type. In all, the manufacture of luxury items, fine handcrafts, metal crafting and the manufacture of tools were all well established businesses long before the onset ...
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The Industrial Revolutions Effects On Europe
1,585 wordsThe Industrial Revolutions Effects on Europe A great historian, J. H. Clapham, wrote: Even if the history of the industrial revolution is a thrice-squeezing orange, there remains an astonishing amount of juice in it (Lane 5). The Industrial Revolution had an overall positive effect on Europe. The Industrial Revolution was a series of dramatic changes in the way work was done (World History 473). Before the Industrial Revolution, most of all the work was done by hand. People used to plant crops, ...
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J P Morgan One Of The World
391 wordsBanker and industrialist J. Pierpont Morgan was one of the world's foremost financial figures in the decades before World War I. He organized railroads and formed the United States Steel Corporation. His wealth and financial management skills were so considerable that he was able to steer the United States Treasury from the brink of disaster. John Pierpont Morgan was born in Hartford, Conn. , on April 17, 1837. His father was a very successful businessman, and John Pierpont was educated at Germa...
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Play An Important Order To Protect
3,396 words... stances in which grade is lowered is Discipline: 1) An engineer must be well disciplined 2) The mining engineering is the most disciplined profession after the military 3) Discipline is needed in order to protect the orders given in working chain Dragline: 1) A crane boom used with a drag bucket is dragline boom 2) An excavation system involving a dragline & other dragline equipments is called dragline dredge 3) Operator of a scraper loading machine, known as a dragline is called drag loader...
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U S Carnegie Steel
372 wordsCarnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. He went to the U. S. in 1848 and soon began work as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, for $ 1. 20 per week. The following year he became a messenger in a Pittsburgh telegraph office and learned telegraphy. He was then employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as the private secretary and telegrapher to the railroad official Thomas Alexander Scott. Carnegie advanced by successive promotions until he was superintendent of the Pittsbur...
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Red River Transportation Company
352 wordsJames Jarome Hill was born near Rockwood, Ontario in 1838. A boyhood accident that blinded him in one eye dashed his early dreams of becoming a doctor. He was forced to go to work at an early age due to the death of his father. At the age of 16, Hill went to St. Paul, Minnesota and took a job with a steamboat company. At the age of 25, he became an agent for the Northwestern Packet Company and organized the Red River Transportation Company five years later. The Red River Transportation Company w...
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Choose Their Land Farmers And Their Agricultural Agenda Nation
749 wordsThe western frontier was a newly acquired asset with unlimited potential for the United States. Rich with mineral resources, fertile land, and overall open space, the frontier was to be prosperous indefinitely, but it was first necessary to determine which action would be initiated. Agriculture was the only true necessity for survival, and with the land, large farms could be created to produce food for the nation. For this reason, farmers and their agricultural agenda should have had the precede...
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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
847 wordsThe Accomplishments of Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was a black woman born into slavery. Harriet was an abolitionist and strongly believed that all slaves should be free. Harriet learned that her master had died and that she would be sold if she did not run away. At the age of twenty-five, Harriet left her plantation and was on the run to a free state (Harriet par 1). Harriet made her way ninety miles from Maryland to Philadelphia. There she began to work and make a living for herself. She deci...
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Underground Railroad Native American
726 wordsThe conductors often left a number of signs for the slaves to follow so they didn't go to houses that belonged to allies of the slave owners. A quilt on the clothesline showing the picture of a house with smoke coming out of the chimney was a sign of a safe station. A white ring of bricks around the top of a house's chimney was another sign of a good hiding spot. Shops that were safe often had a figure of a running man or woman on its sign. Other signs were used to guide the slaves, too. The sla...
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Twentieth Century Sunday Morning
1,732 wordsEdward Hopper Edward Hopper is American painter whose realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes shock the viewer into recognition of the strangeness of familiar surroundings. He strongly influenced the Pop art and New Realist painters of the 1960 s and 1970 s. Hopper was initially trained as an illustrator, but, between 1901 and 1906, he studied painting under Robert Henri, a member of a group of painters called the Ashcan School. Hopper traveled to Europe three times between 1906 and 1910, ...
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Competitive Edge Capital Expenditures
2,427 wordsBURLINGTON NORTHERNTHE ARES DECISION Background The purpose of this report is to identify Burlington Northern's key issues, analyze the situation, and recommend actions regarding the Information Technology System, Advanced Railroad Electronics System (ARES), Burlington Northern is considering implementing. Burlington Northern Railroad was formed in 1970 by merging four different companies. Burlington Northern has seven business segments consisting of: Coal, Agriculture, Industrial Products, Inte...
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J P Morgan Top Of The World
3,549 wordsJohn Pierpont Morgan was criticized from many angles for he was undoubtedly the most successful businessman in the history of mankind. During the mid to late nineteen hundreds it was said that at one point Morgan controlled this country more than the government itself for Morgan was the chief financier in many of its operations. Morgan refinanced the United States Treasury on more than one occasion, using his investment banking skills to help keep the country from failing. Furthermore, he did al...
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Spanish American War Carl Sandburg
1,796 wordsAs a child of an immigrant couple, Carl Sandburg was barely American himself, yet the life, which he had lived, has defined key aspects of our great country, and touched the hearts and minds of her people. Sandburg grew up in the American Midwest, yet spent the majority of his life traveling throughout the states. The country, which would define his style of poetry and his views of society, government, and culture, would equally be defined by his writing, lecturing, and the American dream he liv...
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Act Was Passed Thousands Of People
641 wordsExtermination of the Plains Indians The Plains Indians in the early nineteenth century, numbered approximately 250, 000. The Zuni, Hopi, Navaho, Pawnee, Sioux, Apache, and Cheyenne were the major tribes of the West. By the late nineteenth century the Indians were reduced to roughly 10, 000. Because of new technological advances and new industries, America expanded to the Mid-West. The railroad caused thousands of people to move west therefore reducing the number of Plains Indians and partly dest...
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Chinese Immigrants Indian Women
552 wordsForged Under the Sun American Indian stories is the story of an Indian girls childhood experiences and how she went to school and also talks about the different Indian customs. The book sports out with how her father, uncle and little sister were killed by the white men, and how much her mother resented the white men or palefaces as she called them. Bead work was one of the main things the Indian women did and so the little Indian girl also learned to do bead work by watching her mom. This book ...
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Women Rights Food And Shelter
1,427 wordsHarriet Tubman was one of the greatest American women of the nineteenth century. Though she was a descendant of African origin a group highly discriminated against in that time period she achieved many accomplishments. Some of these accomplishments included aiding the women? s rights movement, raising money for public education, opening a nursing home for aged blacks, and even having a high school named in her honor. She even worked as a spy and a nurse for the Union army in the Civil War. Yet, ...
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Place To Sleep Freight Trains Hoboes
479 wordsAfter World War Hoboes Hoboes After World War I, millions of veterans were rushing to get jobs. The war ended so abruptly that the government had to cut more than two billion dollars worth of war contracts. More than ten percent of the American population was unemployed. This sent many people out onto the rails looking for jobs. These people became known as hoboes. Hoboes traveled the country by train looking for work wherever they could. They would stop at houses along the way and exchange work...
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Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Act Of 1887 Railroad
308 wordsIn 1887 the United States was still trying to rebuild and move to the west. The main method of transportation was the railroad. Not only was it quick, it was also expensive. No one had more problems paying for railroad cargo and themselves were the farmers. Congress eventually formed the Interstate Commerce Commission. It s goal was to wage lower rates than the railroad would allow. This was the start of the interstate commerce act of 1887. In this short essay some of the important sections of t...
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J P Morgan Steel Corporation
1,170 wordsNo, sir, the first thing is character. Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom (Sinclair XIII). With that line, John Pierpont Morgan ended his career in a show-stealing manner. Indeed, J. P. Morgan was a man of character; moreover, he was perhaps the greatest Wall Street banker of the decade. Unlike others who gained fame at a young age, Morgan lived in obscurity until 1895, where at the age of 58...
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Miles Per Hour Steam Engine
671 wordsIn the beginning of transportation there were mainly horse and buggy, but then they developed a steam engine and they develop canals for steam boats. About five years later the people decided to start railroads because it was easier to lay and could be lain almost anywhere. So I will tell you about the steam engine, how it works, also about the steam locomotion, and I will present a model of an early British train. The old reciprocating steam locomotive is driven by a steam engine. Steam from th...
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