In the Big Business era, there was a major growth of industry. The first primary source I chose was the picture of the automobile. The automobile was a very big part of American history and it was invented in the Big Business era. It started a new revolution for America with technology and engineering. Also, it started successful businesses and made people very wealthy. A very important part in the Big Business era was the steel industries. The second primary source is the picture of Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie created a revolution and was one of the wealthiest people in United States history because of his steel empire. With this steel, skyscrapers and very tall buildings were created. Technology in the Big Business era shaped the lives of Americans throughout the years. Businesses were booming, everything was happy, and everyone thought the good times would never end. These feelings stopped at the beginning of the Great Depression. The Great Depression started on “Black Tuesday,” the day when the stocks were decreasing. Then, all of a sudden, the stock market crashes and most people in the United States lost most if not all of their money. The first primary source is a picture of a mother and her children on the streets during the Great Depression. Poverty increased rapidly and nobody could afford most things. Businesses had to fire their workers to save money. The West was badly affected by the Great Depression. Believing that “the good times would never end,” farmers overproduced their crops. Since nobody had any money to buy the excessive amount of crops, they went out of business. The fields where they were growing crops were made up of dirt because of the loss of rain in the West. Instead of the rain coming back, the West suffered major dust storms, as shown in the second picture. This was known as the Dust Bowl. The people in the West were trying to get welfare, but didn’t end up getting any because of the Great Depression. This era was a really bad time for the whole country. The Big Business era was filled with good times and growing industry. But business dropped rapidly after the Big Business era. The stock market crash created a loss in industry. The automobile and the steel industries were some of the inventions created during that era, and the Great Depression ended the happiness. Poverty was on the rise, as well as unemployment because of businesses trying to save their money. The Dust Bowl was a major setback during the Great Depression because a lot of families in the West dealing with this were not getting the help they needed. After all, the amount of business decreased over the years, but made significant progress in the beginning. Liz K
The Automobile was first invented in 1886, this was the era of “Big Business.’’ What my first two primary sources say about this era is that America was just coming out with some new ideas and inventions. We had just invented the Rail-road another modern way of transportation about 25 years before, and now coming out with another. What my sources tell me is that in these stages of the Automobile, almost nobody owned them at this point, and they weren’t very sufficient. Later on during the Roaring 20’s, and WWII, Automobiles gained much popularity. During the Roaring 20’s the Automobile was mass produced and many people were buying them. Later on around the 1940’s, they became much faster and more efficient. Also in the 1940s, the military found great use for them in battle, making “Armored Vehicles.” And many news articles and ads encouraged the purchasing of automobiles for every family, and said it was “The only future.” The change of the Automobile in our study of US history benefited Americans very much. The Automobile changed the way of life for the everyday American, after the invention of the train, making transportation even more possible and easier. Throughout the years of the making of the car, it grew increasingly more efficient and sufficient. It made the lives of American citizens a lot more tranquil.
SOURCES: 1. http://bravenewworldproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/change-in-early-nineteenth-century.html (picture of a man with a gas mask on)
2.http://mentalfloss.com/article/31882/12-technological-advancements-world-war-I (large picture of tank)
3.http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/22-111-Life-in-edwardians-and-ww1.html (Picture of the ford T model car.
4. http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/machine/text5/text5.htm ( lady signaling the radio)
My first two primary sources are pictures of technology back in the early 1900's. They are both war related. The first picture is a man with a gas mask on. Now, the technology is not the mask. It is the first use of chemical weapons and how people survived against it. The second source is a picture of a tank. The technology from the machines we use today has evolved but when it first came out it was a great success.
My second and third primary sources are also about technology in the early 1900s. the third is a picture of the brand new ford T model that was invented by henry ford in 1908. He used a method called the “Assembly line”. The next source is a picture of a lady operating a radio system. Radios were very rare at the time and they were quite expensive. People used to listen to the radio to hear the news. Listen to sports games etc.
So all these things have to do with the start of technology and the mass production that follows after there invented. In class right now we have talking about the great depression, and how that changed the US forever. The great depression was mainly based around the crash of the stock market but a little percentage had to do with mass production. When the market crashed business owners couldn’t pay their employees. Since there were so many workers making the owners product, which nobody could buy because nobody had money anyway, the company was losing money and not making it. This is what really caused the uproar among the working class. But now that the great depression is over the technology has been evolving to today. For example, the car changed the every day life of an American because we can get around faster and more efficiently. The radio changed the everyday life because now we can listen to every thing going on in our world. The military has evolved its weapons to help out itself today so that a war can be fought much easier.
SOURCES: 1. http://bravenewworldproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/change-in-early-nineteenth-century.html (picture of a man with a gas mask on)
2.http://mentalfloss.com/article/31882/12-technological-advancements-world-war-I (large picture of tank)
3.http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/22-111-Life-in-edwardians-and-ww1.html (Picture of the ford T model car.
4. http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/machine/text5/text5.htm ( lady signaling the radio)
My first two primary sources are pictures of technology back in the early 1900's. They are both war related. The first picture is a man with a gas mask on. Now, the technology is not the mask. It is the first use of chemical weapons and how people survived against it. The second source is a picture of a tank. The technology from the machines we use today has evolved but when it first came out it was a great success.
My second and third primary sources are also about technology in the early 1900s. the third is a picture of the brand new ford T model that was invented by henry ford in 1908. He used a method called the “Assembly line”. The next source is a picture of a lady operating a radio system. Radios were very rare at the time and they were quite expensive. People used to listen to the radio to hear the news. Listen to sports games etc.
So all these things have to do with the start of technology and the mass production that follows after there invented. In class right now we have talking about the great depression, and how that changed the US forever. The great depression was mainly based around the crash of the stock market but a little percentage had to do with mass production. When the market crashed business owners couldn’t pay their employees. Since there were so many workers making the owners product, which nobody could buy because nobody had money anyway, the company was losing money and not making it. This is what really caused the uproar among the working class. But now that the great depression is over the technology has been evolving to today. For example, the car changed the every day life of an American because we can get around faster and more efficiently. The radio changed the everyday life because now we can listen to every thing going on in our world. The military has evolved its weapons to help out itself today so that a war can be fought much easier.
My first source includes a picture of railroad workers on around trains on the Transcontinental Railroad, completed in 1869. The Transcontinental Railroad connected the East and West coasts of America, making the American world much more accessible. This improved trade and general transportation massively. The second source is of Alexander Bell holding his invention, the Telephone invented in 1875. The telephone opened up a whole world of opportunity by allowing people to converse without physically meeting.
The third source shows Henry Ford's assembly line. The assembly line was used to make automobiles efficiently which lowered the price to be available to the common folk. This made transportation even more convenient than the train. Lastly, my fourth source shows a picture of a typewriter. This allowed people to type messages efficiently and professionally to send to others to tell them something.
All of these inventions listed were advancements in communication and in transportation. What they all have commonly done for the world is made the world a lot smaller. Our ancestors in American history successfully "shrank" the vastness of the world by developing ways to make other areas and people more accessible to us. Today after even more advancements in these methods of communication and transportation, we now have access to every corner of our vast planet.
My first two sources mainly focus on technology during the Roaring 20’s. New factories were quickly popping up, and producing some of the goods shown in the ads above. Also, movie theaters were becoming popular. People would go and have a night out to see a movie. They were a fun new way to spend time with friends. These show that this era was the first era to quickly progress in technology. They started to work in the factories, and everyone became more involved in the tech community. These show that this era was a social era that focused the products on you and your friends, or family. My last two sources were focused on technology in the Westward expansion. Some technology would be trains, and plows. These inventions could help the farmers quickly plant the land, or get from place to place much quicker. These sources show that people started to think how they could do things in a quicker manner. They wanted to spend the least amount of time working, to make the most profits. These inventions would pay off and even be used today. The sources show that these years were very progressive in the “faster” mindset. Automobiles and trains were used in both eras to move far distances faster that ever before. All of these resources helped people in one way or another. Factories helped to mass produce necessary goods faster and more efficiently, and movies could be used for entertainment, or education. The train was used to move from place to place faster, and plows were used to plant more crops faster. All of these inventions were used to help people in one way or another. Elise
Aaron Moyer Blog Post #2 Big Business http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2013/jul/31/henry-ford-car-photography http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_telephone_1.html World War 2 http://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=ac_symposium http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/ The Big Business era was a very important time in American history because of all of the inventions and innovations being created during the time. One of these inventions was the automobile which is my first primary source. The automobile was very important to America because you could get a lot faster and a lot farther. It was invented by Henry Ford and was a great advancement in US technology. Another great invention was the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell which helped out the US because people were able to communicate with each other instantly in the comfort of their home. My other two sources were both images of the technology in the World War 2 era. My first source was an image of the radar invented to help find enemies within a certain radius so people could prevent surprise attacks from foreign enemies. My second source was an image of the nuclear bombs that ended the war and devastated Japan. These two inventions were both great advancements in war and in general. Radar has changed the world because it is still an amazing advancement that is still used today. Nuclear warfare though could be controversial as a good or bad invention because now today so many people have it and it is used to threaten way too much. But overall these two inventions changed the world of wars and are still being used and improved today. These four sources all connect because they are all advances in United States technology. These four inventions have all helped the United States in different ways. These connect to technology because they were all improving the United States and they were also technical things that were being improved and were improving the United States. During the late 1800s and all of the 1900s technology was a big part of the way we live and was always being improved to make our lives easier. The overall goal of technology is to make lives easier and theses inventions definitely made all of our lives easier. Some things were improving the war aspect and some were improving everyday life but these things all make us feel safer and our lives easier.
My first two primary sources are war related. The first source shows an American plane during the world war 2 era. It shows the plane the P-40 which was a very commonly used fighter in world war 2. My second source shows an American world war 2 tank. The Sherman tank was one of the most commonly used tanks in world war 2. These primary sources show how much technology has evolved throughout the years.
My third source shows Henry Ford's Assembly line. this was his style of mass producing automobiles. My fourth source shows pictures of the early radio in the 1920s. Radios were hard to come by these days because they were expensive. These sources also show how technology has evolved over the years. our radios are much more better, and our cars are a lot better too.
These sources all connect because they all helped out the United States in some way. The planes and tanks helped us during the wars, the automobiles created jobs, and the radio helped u.s citizens get their information and news throughout the day. They are all also advancements in technology in the U.S. They also were all mass produced which helped us in many ways. It helped us create jobs, win wars, and just give some people entertainment. All of these primary sources are advancements in technology, and they all helped out the U.S in some way.
Technology http://www.prevensectes.com/bfm01.htm (scroll down to second picture) http://rolfgross.dreamhosters.com/ErmakovCollection/PhotosInternet.html (scroll down to fourth picture) Picture number one is of a family sitting in a horse drawn buggy. It was the only mean of land transportation (besides walking) before the invention of the automobile. It wasn’t very fast but neither was the first car. The next picture is of a theatre. Before the TV was invented, this is how many people would get entertainment.
http://visitkokomo.wordpress.com/tag/americas-first-car/ (scroll down to Elwood Haynes 153rd Birthday Celebration article) http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcone/1950s_idents.html The first picture is of one of the first cars. It was basically just a frame with an engine. It was designed to get around quicker. The last picture(s) is of the TV channel BBC from the mid ‘20’s. When TV first came out critics thought it would flop. No one expected people to have time to just sit in front of a screen. It was the new way to get entertainment.
There were many, really big advancement in technology during this time period. America progressed so much through technology and these barely even cover the surface of it. America, and really the world, changed for the better with this new technology.
Cole Kirchmeier The West: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:69workmen.jpg http://www.knoxnews.com/photos/galleries/2011/oct/24/150th-anniversary-transcontinental-telegraph/38092/#section_header Roaring 20s: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/America_economy_1920s.htm http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/09/dayintech_0929
My first two sources come from the 1860s when people were traveling west for new settlement and technology was starting to skyrocket. My first primary source is a picture of the men who worked to complete the first Transcontinental Railroad celebrating the driving of the “Last Spike”. This railroad was finished in 1869 and completely changed transportation in America. There were many technical feats that the men accomplished while building this railroad that made this point in time the start of modernization for America. The next primary source is a picture of a man working on the first transcontinental telegraph. This telegraph revolutionized communication at the time. For the first time ever, a man in San Francisco could send a message to the president in Washington DC. This technical feat was again, a start to modern communication. My second two sources come from the roaring 20s when modern technology was advancing all the time. My first primary source is a picture of the legendary Ford Model-T. This model was reason for the massive boom in the car industry during the 1920s. For the first time ever, the average Joe could purchase an inexpensive car for simply transportation. My second primary source is a picture of three boys sitting around a radio in the 1920s. The roaring 20s was when the radio went commercial and changed entertainment and communication forever. This new technology was very popular with the boys and it enabled them to hear broadcasts from all over the country. The 1920s were a big push in the advancement of technology. All four of these primary sources show that man’s hard work and one brilliant idea can really make a difference. Before the transcontinental railroad, there were railroads but nothing even came close to the technical and engineering feats that came with complete the first transcontinental railroad. This railroad really left a big impact for transportation. This is continued with the 1920s or the age of personal transportation. All it took was one brilliant idea and the Ford Model- T rocketed the car industry into what it is now. The same goes for the transcontinental telegraph and the radio. The technical ingenuousness that went into making a way of communicating with someone across the country really raised the bar for what the human mind and hard work can do. This also continued with the radio that went commercial in the 1920s. With the radio, technology wasn’t the only thing that advanced but so did entertainment and communication. What the transcontinental railroad, first personal car, and the radio all have in common is the fact that they would have never been achieved if man didn't think outside the box and take ricks. All four of these things really advanced technology and pushed it to be what it is today as swell.
The American Motivation: Invent, Improve, Improve some more. Americans are always working, always striving to improve our technologies, our way of life. This couldn't have been more prevalent during the time between WWI and WWII, beginning with the developing and improvements of the military aircraft. WWI saw very little use of the airplane for anything other than reconnaissance. Early planes consisted of low flying, open cockpit models. They could carry little to no extra weight. They provided very little protection to the pilot and often times were shot down by small arms fire. After WWI, the nation began developing new technologies that made higher, faster, safer flying a reality. They also developed wing-mounted guns and bomb systems. The reinvention of the military aircraft, creating what we know today as the fighter jet and bomber, can very much be credited as one of the reasons we won the war.
We also see this same trend in the improvement made to the US infantry rifle between the wars. WWI saw the M1903 as the standard rifle of the American Infantryman. While the Springfield was a very reliable sidekick to the US soldier, as stated before, we're always looking to improve. As WWII rolled around, while the M1903 was still the official rifle, the M1 Garand had been introduced and widely accepted by the American Infantrymen. The M1 Garand provided a faster, higher caliber weapon of choice for the next few years.
The first primary source I looked at showed a picture of Henry Ford and his first automobile. Then it has a small paragraph about the picture which also tells his date of birth (July 30th 1863). The second primary source article was about crossly cars in the 1920s.
The third primary source article was about the radio in America during the 1920s this tells us that at this time period wireless meant to send messages via radio waves without wires. And lastly the fourth picture is a picture of a Mercedes Benz from the 1920s. From this picture I can tell that there were some cars at the time that didn’t have tops. Also that cars during this time period that where still a new technology.
These primary source items connect because they are all from the 1920s and 30s, and they are all about technology during this time period.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2013/jul/31/henry-ford-car-photography http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/machine/text5/text5.htm http://www.crossley-motors.org.uk/history/1920.html http://www.emercedesbenz.com/Images/Aug08/19_Mercedes_Benz_Supercharged_Cars_2/460177_782573_3598_2241_9215641992m1233.jpg Charles Hufnagle
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In the Big Business era, there was a major growth of industry. The first primary source I chose was the picture of the automobile. The automobile was a very big part of American history and it was invented in the Big Business era. It started a new revolution for America with technology and engineering. Also, it started successful businesses and made people very wealthy. A very important part in the Big Business era was the steel industries. The second primary source is the picture of Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie created a revolution and was one of the wealthiest people in United States history because of his steel empire. With this steel, skyscrapers and very tall buildings were created. Technology in the Big Business era shaped the lives of Americans throughout the years.
DeleteBusinesses were booming, everything was happy, and everyone thought the good times would never end. These feelings stopped at the beginning of the Great Depression. The Great Depression started on “Black Tuesday,” the day when the stocks were decreasing. Then, all of a sudden, the stock market crashes and most people in the United States lost most if not all of their money. The first primary source is a picture of a mother and her children on the streets during the Great Depression. Poverty increased rapidly and nobody could afford most things. Businesses had to fire their workers to save money. The West was badly affected by the Great Depression. Believing that “the good times would never end,” farmers overproduced their crops. Since nobody had any money to buy the excessive amount of crops, they went out of business. The fields where they were growing crops were made up of dirt because of the loss of rain in the West. Instead of the rain coming back, the West suffered major dust storms, as shown in the second picture. This was known as the Dust Bowl. The people in the West were trying to get welfare, but didn’t end up getting any because of the Great Depression. This era was a really bad time for the whole country.
The Big Business era was filled with good times and growing industry. But business dropped rapidly after the Big Business era. The stock market crash created a loss in industry. The automobile and the steel industries were some of the inventions created during that era, and the Great Depression ended the happiness. Poverty was on the rise, as well as unemployment because of businesses trying to save their money. The Dust Bowl was a major setback during the Great Depression because a lot of families in the West dealing with this were not getting the help they needed. After all, the amount of business decreased over the years, but made significant progress in the beginning.
Liz K
1. http://bravenewworldproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/change-in-early-nineteenth-century.html
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3.http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/22-111-Life-in-edwardians-and-ww1.html
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The Automobile was first invented in 1886, this was the era of “Big Business.’’ What my first two primary sources say about this era is that America was just coming out with some new ideas and inventions. We had just invented the Rail-road another modern way of transportation about 25 years before, and now coming out with another. What my sources tell me is that in these stages of the Automobile, almost nobody owned them at this point, and they weren’t very sufficient.
Later on during the Roaring 20’s, and WWII, Automobiles gained much popularity. During the Roaring 20’s the Automobile was mass produced and many people were buying them. Later on around the 1940’s, they became much faster and more efficient. Also in the 1940s, the military found great use for them in battle, making “Armored Vehicles.” And many news articles and ads encouraged the purchasing of automobiles for every family, and said it was “The only future.”
The change of the Automobile in our study of US history benefited Americans very much. The Automobile changed the way of life for the everyday American, after the invention of the train, making transportation even more possible and easier. Throughout the years of the making of the car, it grew increasingly more efficient and sufficient. It made the lives of American citizens a lot more tranquil.
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ReplyDelete1. http://bravenewworldproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/change-in-early-nineteenth-century.html (picture of a man with a gas mask on)
2.http://mentalfloss.com/article/31882/12-technological-advancements-world-war-I (large picture of tank)
3.http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/22-111-Life-in-edwardians-and-ww1.html (Picture of the ford T model car.
4. http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/machine/text5/text5.htm ( lady signaling the radio)
My first two primary sources are pictures of technology back in the early 1900's. They are both war related. The first picture is a man with a gas mask on. Now, the technology is not the mask. It is the first use of chemical weapons and how people survived against it. The second source is a picture of a tank. The technology from the machines we use today has evolved but when it first came out it was a great success.
My second and third primary sources are also about technology in the early 1900s. the third is a picture of the brand new ford T model that was invented by henry ford in 1908. He used a method called the “Assembly line”. The next source is a picture of a lady operating a radio system. Radios were very rare at the time and they were quite expensive. People used to listen to the radio to hear the news. Listen to sports games etc.
So all these things have to do with the start of technology and the mass production that follows after there invented. In class right now we have talking about the great depression, and how that changed the US forever. The great depression was mainly based around the crash of the stock market but a little percentage had to do with mass production. When the market crashed business owners couldn’t pay their employees. Since there were so many workers making the owners product, which nobody could buy because nobody had money anyway, the company was losing money and not making it. This is what really caused the uproar among the working class.
But now that the great depression is over the technology has been evolving to today. For example, the car changed the every day life of an American because we can get around faster and more efficiently. The radio changed the everyday life because now we can listen to every thing going on in our world. The military has evolved its weapons to help out itself today so that a war can be fought much easier.
BRYCE COLLINGWOOD
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ReplyDelete1. http://bravenewworldproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/change-in-early-nineteenth-century.html (picture of a man with a gas mask on)
2.http://mentalfloss.com/article/31882/12-technological-advancements-world-war-I (large picture of tank)
3.http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/22-111-Life-in-edwardians-and-ww1.html (Picture of the ford T model car.
4. http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/machine/text5/text5.htm ( lady signaling the radio)
My first two primary sources are pictures of technology back in the early 1900's. They are both war related. The first picture is a man with a gas mask on. Now, the technology is not the mask. It is the first use of chemical weapons and how people survived against it. The second source is a picture of a tank. The technology from the machines we use today has evolved but when it first came out it was a great success.
My second and third primary sources are also about technology in the early 1900s. the third is a picture of the brand new ford T model that was invented by henry ford in 1908. He used a method called the “Assembly line”. The next source is a picture of a lady operating a radio system. Radios were very rare at the time and they were quite expensive. People used to listen to the radio to hear the news. Listen to sports games etc.
So all these things have to do with the start of technology and the mass production that follows after there invented. In class right now we have talking about the great depression, and how that changed the US forever. The great depression was mainly based around the crash of the stock market but a little percentage had to do with mass production. When the market crashed business owners couldn’t pay their employees. Since there were so many workers making the owners product, which nobody could buy because nobody had money anyway, the company was losing money and not making it. This is what really caused the uproar among the working class.
But now that the great depression is over the technology has been evolving to today. For example, the car changed the every day life of an American because we can get around faster and more efficiently. The radio changed the everyday life because now we can listen to every thing going on in our world. The military has evolved its weapons to help out itself today so that a war can be fought much easier.
BRYCE COLLINGWOOD
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My first source includes a picture of railroad workers on around trains on the Transcontinental Railroad, completed in 1869. The Transcontinental Railroad connected the East and West coasts of America, making the American world much more accessible. This improved trade and general transportation massively. The second source is of Alexander Bell holding his invention, the Telephone invented in 1875. The telephone opened up a whole world of opportunity by allowing people to converse without physically meeting.
The third source shows Henry Ford's assembly line. The assembly line was used to make automobiles efficiently which lowered the price to be available to the common folk. This made transportation even more convenient than the train. Lastly, my fourth source shows a picture of a typewriter. This allowed people to type messages efficiently and professionally to send to others to tell them something.
All of these inventions listed were advancements in communication and in transportation. What they all have commonly done for the world is made the world a lot smaller. Our ancestors in American history successfully "shrank" the vastness of the world by developing ways to make other areas and people more accessible to us. Today after even more advancements in these methods of communication and transportation, we now have access to every corner of our vast planet.
DAVID G.
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My first two sources mainly focus on technology during the Roaring 20’s. New factories were quickly popping up, and producing some of the goods shown in the ads above. Also, movie theaters were becoming popular. People would go and have a night out to see a movie. They were a fun new way to spend time with friends. These show that this era was the first era to quickly progress in technology. They started to work in the factories, and everyone became more involved in the tech community. These show that this era was a social era that focused the products on you and your friends, or family.
My last two sources were focused on technology in the Westward expansion. Some technology would be trains, and plows. These inventions could help the farmers quickly plant the land, or get from place to place much quicker. These sources show that people started to think how they could do things in a quicker manner. They wanted to spend the least amount of time working, to make the most profits. These inventions would pay off and even be used today.
The sources show that these years were very progressive in the “faster” mindset. Automobiles and trains were used in both eras to move far distances faster that ever before. All of these resources helped people in one way or another. Factories helped to mass produce necessary goods faster and more efficiently, and movies could be used for entertainment, or education. The train was used to move from place to place faster, and plows were used to plant more crops faster. All of these inventions were used to help people in one way or another.
Elise
Aaron Moyer
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Big Business
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2013/jul/31/henry-ford-car-photography
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_telephone_1.html
World War 2
http://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=ac_symposium
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/
The Big Business era was a very important time in American history because of all of the inventions and innovations being created during the time. One of these inventions was the automobile which is my first primary source. The automobile was very important to America because you could get a lot faster and a lot farther. It was invented by Henry Ford and was a great advancement in US technology. Another great invention was the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell which helped out the US because people were able to communicate with each other instantly in the comfort of their home.
My other two sources were both images of the technology in the World War 2 era. My first source was an image of the radar invented to help find enemies within a certain radius so people could prevent surprise attacks from foreign enemies. My second source was an image of the nuclear bombs that ended the war and devastated Japan. These two inventions were both great advancements in war and in general. Radar has changed the world because it is still an amazing advancement that is still used today. Nuclear warfare though could be controversial as a good or bad invention because now today so many people have it and it is used to threaten way too much. But overall these two inventions changed the world of wars and are still being used and improved today.
These four sources all connect because they are all advances in United States technology. These four inventions have all helped the United States in different ways. These connect to technology because they were all improving the United States and they were also technical things that were being improved and were improving the United States. During the late 1800s and all of the 1900s technology was a big part of the way we live and was always being improved to make our lives easier. The overall goal of technology is to make lives easier and theses inventions definitely made all of our lives easier. Some things were improving the war aspect and some were improving everyday life but these things all make us feel safer and our lives easier.
1.http://worldwar2headquarters.com/HTML/aircraft/americanAircraft/warhawk.html
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4.http://www.hal.state.mi.us/mhc/museum/explore/museums/hismus/special/ontheair/wwj.html
My first two primary sources are war related. The first source shows an American plane during the world war 2 era. It shows the plane the P-40 which was a very commonly used fighter in world war 2. My second source shows an American world war 2 tank. The Sherman tank was one of the most commonly used tanks in world war 2. These primary sources show how much technology has evolved throughout the years.
My third source shows Henry Ford's Assembly line. this was his style of mass producing automobiles. My fourth source shows pictures of the early radio in the 1920s. Radios were hard to come by these days because they were expensive. These sources also show how technology has evolved over the years. our radios are much more better, and our cars are a lot better too.
These sources all connect because they all helped out the United States in some way. The planes and tanks helped us during the wars, the automobiles created jobs, and the radio helped u.s citizens get their information and news throughout the day. They are all also advancements in technology in the U.S. They also were all mass produced which helped us in many ways. It helped us create jobs, win wars, and just give some people entertainment. All of these primary sources are advancements in technology, and they all helped out the U.S in some way.
Colin Huggins
Technology
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Picture number one is of a family sitting in a horse drawn buggy. It was the only mean of land transportation (besides walking) before the invention of the automobile. It wasn’t very fast but neither was the first car. The next picture is of a theatre. Before the TV was invented, this is how many people would get entertainment.
http://visitkokomo.wordpress.com/tag/americas-first-car/ (scroll down to Elwood Haynes 153rd Birthday Celebration article)
http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcone/1950s_idents.html
The first picture is of one of the first cars. It was basically just a frame with an engine. It was designed to get around quicker. The last picture(s) is of the TV channel BBC from the mid ‘20’s. When TV first came out critics thought it would flop. No one expected people to have time to just sit in front of a screen. It was the new way to get entertainment.
There were many, really big advancement in technology during this time period. America progressed so much through technology and these barely even cover the surface of it. America, and really the world, changed for the better with this new technology.
Cole Kirchmeier
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:69workmen.jpg
http://www.knoxnews.com/photos/galleries/2011/oct/24/150th-anniversary-transcontinental-telegraph/38092/#section_header
Roaring 20s:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/America_economy_1920s.htm
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/09/dayintech_0929
My first two sources come from the 1860s when people were traveling west for new settlement and technology was starting to skyrocket. My first primary source is a picture of the men who worked to complete the first Transcontinental Railroad celebrating the driving of the “Last Spike”. This railroad was finished in 1869 and completely changed transportation in America. There were many technical feats that the men accomplished while building this railroad that made this point in time the start of modernization for America. The next primary source is a picture of a man working on the first transcontinental telegraph. This telegraph revolutionized communication at the time. For the first time ever, a man in San Francisco could send a message to the president in Washington DC. This technical feat was again, a start to modern communication.
My second two sources come from the roaring 20s when modern technology was advancing all the time. My first primary source is a picture of the legendary Ford Model-T. This model was reason for the massive boom in the car industry during the 1920s. For the first time ever, the average Joe could purchase an inexpensive car for simply transportation. My second primary source is a picture of three boys sitting around a radio in the 1920s. The roaring 20s was when the radio went commercial and changed entertainment and communication forever. This new technology was very popular with the boys and it enabled them to hear broadcasts from all over the country. The 1920s were a big push in the advancement of technology.
All four of these primary sources show that man’s hard work and one brilliant idea can really make a difference. Before the transcontinental railroad, there were railroads but nothing even came close to the technical and engineering feats that came with complete the first transcontinental railroad. This railroad really left a big impact for transportation. This is continued with the 1920s or the age of personal transportation. All it took was one brilliant idea and the Ford Model- T rocketed the car industry into what it is now. The same goes for the transcontinental telegraph and the radio. The technical ingenuousness that went into making a way of communicating with someone across the country really raised the bar for what the human mind and hard work can do. This also continued with the radio that went commercial in the 1920s. With the radio, technology wasn’t the only thing that advanced but so did entertainment and communication. What the transcontinental railroad, first personal car, and the radio all have in common is the fact that they would have never been achieved if man didn't think outside the box and take ricks. All four of these things really advanced technology and pushed it to be what it is today as swell.
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M1903 Srpingfield Pic
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Plane pic 1
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Plane 2
The American Motivation: Invent, Improve, Improve some more. Americans are always working, always striving to improve our technologies, our way of life. This couldn't have been more prevalent during the time between WWI and WWII, beginning with the developing and improvements of the military aircraft. WWI saw very little use of the airplane for anything other than reconnaissance. Early planes consisted of low flying, open cockpit models. They could carry little to no extra weight. They provided very little protection to the pilot and often times were shot down by small arms fire. After WWI, the nation began developing new technologies that made higher, faster, safer flying a reality. They also developed wing-mounted guns and bomb systems. The reinvention of the military aircraft, creating what we know today as the fighter jet and bomber, can very much be credited as one of the reasons we won the war.
DeleteWe also see this same trend in the improvement made to the US infantry rifle between the wars. WWI saw the M1903 as the standard rifle of the American Infantryman. While the Springfield was a very reliable sidekick to the US soldier, as stated before, we're always looking to improve. As WWII rolled around, while the M1903 was still the official rifle, the M1 Garand had been introduced and widely accepted by the American Infantrymen. The M1 Garand provided a faster, higher caliber weapon of choice for the next few years.
Cameron
The first primary source I looked at showed a picture of Henry Ford and his first automobile. Then it has a small paragraph about the picture which also tells his date of birth (July 30th 1863). The second primary source article was about crossly cars in the 1920s.
ReplyDeleteThe third primary source article was about the radio in America during the 1920s this tells us that at this time period wireless meant to send messages via radio waves without wires. And lastly the fourth picture is a picture of a Mercedes Benz from the 1920s. From this picture I can tell that there were some cars at the time that didn’t have tops. Also that cars during this time period that where still a new technology.
These primary source items connect because they are all from the 1920s and 30s, and they are all about technology during this time period.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2013/jul/31/henry-ford-car-photography
http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/machine/text5/text5.htm
http://www.crossley-motors.org.uk/history/1920.html
http://www.emercedesbenz.com/Images/Aug08/19_Mercedes_Benz_Supercharged_Cars_2/460177_782573_3598_2241_9215641992m1233.jpg
Charles Hufnagle