Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The revolution in agriculture quickly pushed it in industry revoltuion. Agrariansociety-argricultre society. Facorties have become huge in the world of industry. Facorties made production faster. Macines are much simplier than makeing-things by hand. There is not very much training in doing this. Pay is not on how much we make but how long we work. Not production pay but hourly work pay. Men use to be the only ones working but now woman and children do also. They have the same exact skills men have. They want kids and woman working because you can oay them less. They work cheaper. Society is changing so quickly because technology.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Gang Plow- It had 12-14 blades. It was created by Jonh Deer. It helped farming by have more than one plow.

Cast Iron Plow- People first believed it would poison the soil. It was made of metal instead of wood. The blades were changable, so you wouldn't have to replace the whole thing.

Flying Shuttle- It made weaving easier. It was made by John Kay. It was patented in 1733.

Mold Board Plow- It flipped the soil over. It put the more nutrietious soil on top. It was invented by the Chinese.

Corn Picker- It was invented because the lack of workers. It would be pulled over the corn and picked the corn. It peeled the corn and pulled it off the stalks.

Grain Elavator- It scoops up the grain. It is a tower containing a bucket elavator. It uses gravity to deposit grain.

Combine- It was built to make producing crops easier. It was invented in the United States. They were drawn by mules or horses.

Cotton Gin- It removes small seeds from cotton. It was used to quickly seperate cotton. It replaced doing it by hand.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Spring-Tooth Harrow

           A spring-tooth harrow or drag harrow more specifically refers to a largely outdated type of soil cultivation implement that is used to smooth the ground as well as loosen it after it has been plowed and packed. It uses many flexible iron teeth usually arranged into three rows. It has no hydraulic functionality and has to be raised and adjusted with one or multiple manual levers. It is a largely outdated piece of farm equipment, having been replaced by more modern disc harrows and deeper, stiff-toothed rippers, however, smaller farmers still use them.

          It was invented by David L. Garver in 1869. It was created because soil was quite rocky, so the spring-tooth harrow was a machine that dug the rocks out or derockatized the ground. This machine made it easier on the farmer to work. It helped to produce more product and was faster. It also helpegetting to the market quicker and getting more of the supply there. It gave the ground better nutrients and easier to plant things.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Agricultural and Industrial Revolution

Subsistance farming- growing only what your family needs.
Enclosure movement- starting fencing all the common ground off
Common ground- land owned by everyone
Small families had farms taken and given to larger families in the enclosure movement
Tenant farmers
Those who couldnt be tenant farmers were forced to move
A man named Jethroh Toll was concerned about the amount of seed wasted by hand seeding, so he invented the seed drill, which made it more efficient to plant seed and plant in straight rows, made harvest easier and more efficient
crop rotation-  rotating the crops in the land you plant them in, because each crop requires a different nuetrients
-they continue to make advancements. they go from a wooden plow to a medal plow
-they created an interchangable plow, replaceable blades
-now larger populations in the cities, to find work, there is no work right now but soon there will be.
-Great Britain because of factors of productions is now the leader of production in europe because of natural resourses, the 2 top in great britian -iron ore, and coal
-the three factors of production-land, natural resourses and labor
-Great Britian also has water and rivers-power/energy, transportation
textile industry/clothing
-were made by hand, long time
-mechanization of things, mechanics
-they are now making things with machiness, they created a machine that can make clothes by almost 100,000 times faster
-the factory system now comes into play, we are now going into a age when people can man these machines for a flat rate a day and continue to pump out all these textiles.
-the steam engine has finally been created, now ways to power factories and boats and locomotives, travel time has been cut well over 1/2, and our communication is quicker

Thursday, March 15, 2012

4 page newspaper

3 news articles-300-350 words each, solid facts, who what when where why and how
4 feature articles-fact based but not as timely as news articles, 275-325 words
2 editorials-only article with your opinion but it needs facts, 350-400 words
5 pictures with captions
3 charts/graphs
name the newspaper, something catchy

1 news article-911
2 featured articles- dinasaurs making a come back, global warming
1 editorial-30 students killed in Blacksburg Virginia
3 pictures
2 charts

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Aretmisia Gentileschi
-introduced to painting in her fathers workshop
-she was raped
-she was praised and made-fun of
-she suffered neglect
-most important woman painter of early modern Europe
-painted pictures of strong woman including a self portrait*

Sr. Thomas More
-english lawyer, author
-important counciler to henry 8th
-wrote utopia

Martin Luther
-born into srict german-catholic family
-wrote the 95 theses
-he rebelled

Prince Henry of Portugual
-thrid child of King Jonh
-established a center of navigation and exploration

Miguel Decervantes
-born in 1547
-spanish novelist poret and playwriter
-wrote the book Donquixode

Filippo Brunelleschi
-formulated techniques for lifting things
-built the church of san
-designed a built a dome for the florence Cathedral

Ambrose Pare
-french surgeon
-great offical royal surgeon
- leader in surgical techniques
-1st to use bandages*

Pieter Brueghel
-nicked bruegel the peasant
-painted the peasnt dance a painting that relies on detail and realism*

Niccolo Machiavelli
-wrote a book called the Prince*

Leonardo Da Vinci
-invented and sketched early tanks and cars*

Nicolaus Copernicus
-published the therory the Earthy was not th ecenter of the universe*

Louise Labe

Louise Labé, (c. 1520 or 1522, Lyon – April 25, 1566, Parcieux), also identified as La Belle Cordière, (The Beautiful Ropemaker), was a female French poet of the Renaissance, born at Lyon, the daughter of a rich ropemaker, Pierre Charly, and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet.

Louise Labe was born in the early 1520s to a prosperous rope-maker, a member of the Lyon bourgeoisie. Her mother died when Labe was a child; her father had her educated in languages as well as in music, and she tells us that she also learned to ride and fence. She was married in her early 20s to another rope-maker, some 30 years older than she. It was apparently after her marriage that she began to participate in the literary circles of Lyon, which at the time challenged Paris as a cosmopolitan center and which allowed the bourgeoisie greater participation in cultural life than did the capital.

In 1555 Euvres de Louize Labe Lionnoize was published in Lyon: it contained a prose dedicatory epistle to a local noblewoman, a prose Debat de Folie et d'Amour, 24 sonnets (the first in Italian), and three elegies; the work concluded with 24 poems by other writers, praising Labe's ability. The book was popular enough that three other editions came out within a year (the first "revues et corrigees par la dite Dame"), and it was widely-read enough to bring both praise from beyond Lyon and criticism for being immodest and "unwomanly."

Sometime after 1556, Labe apparently left Lyon to live in the countryside. Her husband died in the early 1560s and she died, perhaps of the plague, in 1566.