https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg 1815-1860 en-us 2019-11-04 14:50:40 UTC 2025-12-03 01:53:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407103424 Women worked on the production line while men ran heavy machinery and worked as millwrights, carpenters, haulers, or as day laborers dredging out the millraces.]]> 2019-11-05 20:05:15 UTC https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407103424 https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407108922 Many machines were powered by a common drive shaft and so remained in motion all the time. Working around the constantly whirring equipment often led to injury or death for what one nineteenth-century magazine described as "the human portion of the machine."]]> 2019-11-05 20:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407108922 https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407109513 In 1838, he introduced the first mass produced brass clock. This was a big deal because every type of worker needed to know what time it was in the workplace.]]> 2019-11-05 20:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407109513 https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407555289 After years of experimentation, in 1821 an engineer named John H. Hall brought together the necessary skill, financing, and tools at the Harper's Ferry federal armory to prove that manufacturing using interchangeable parts was practical.]]> 2019-11-06 16:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407555289 https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407558267 Immigrants were willing to work for lower pay and occupied less of the factory jobs.]]> 2019-11-06 16:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407558267 https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407560008 Most factory workers were likely to lose fingers or even whole arms while working on the machines.]]> 2019-11-06 16:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407560008 https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407561860 Lowell's Boston Manufacturing company invented the typewriter which allowed white collard jobs. Young people usually had white collard jobs.]]> 2019-11-06 16:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407561860 https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407563465 Manufacturing system through which machine-made components were distributed to individual families who used them to craft finished goods. Samuel Slater relied heavily on this system.]]> 2019-11-06 16:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407563465 https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407565472 A person who designs, builds, or repairs mills or mill machinery.]]> 2019-11-06 16:45:11 UTC https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407565472 https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407565885 The channel for the fast-moving stream of water that drives the mill wheel.]]> 2019-11-06 16:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407565885 https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407567064 Oversupply of labor in relation the the umber of jobs available.]]> 2019-11-06 16:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/barry_coleman/a9e1jmem06wg/wish/407567064