https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da en-us 2023-09-12 15:58:34 UTC 2023-09-14 15:57:23 UTC hello@padlet.com elijahlord https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2700249392 Boys and girls as young as seven years old worked in factories and were useful for being able to change the spindle easily. Children would earn weekly wages and help support their families. ]]> 2023-09-12 16:11:04 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2700249392 elijahlord https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2700257095 Samuel F.B. Morse would invent the telegraph which was used as a talking wire.  The telegraph was a device that would send electrical signals along a wire. Morse would also end up inventing a code of dots and dashes so messages could be sent. Today this is known as Morse Code ]]> 2023-09-12 16:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2700257095 elijahlord https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2700264560 In 1847, Cyrus had opened a factory in Chicago that produced the Mechanical Reaper. The reaper served as a horse drawn machine that cut and gathered wheat and other grains. This could do five times the amount the work as a person could do it with hand tools.]]> 2023-09-12 16:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2700264560 elijahlord https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2700273220 Meanwhile when the War of 1812 was taking place, Francis Cabot Lowell who was a Boston Merchant found a way to improve the Textile Mill. Normally there would two factories to spin and weave thread to make it into cloth but Francis had the bright idea to just do it in one factory under one roof. The new mill he built in Waltham,Massachusetts had all the machines so they could turn raw cotton into finished cloth. ]]> 2023-09-12 16:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2700273220 elijahlord https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2702373358 Most people who moved to the city were looking for a job. Factory workers would have set hours and would earn daily and weekly wages to help provide for their families. Factory workers would work 12 hours and 6 days a week! Based on the number of hours they worked they would earn a specific amount of money/wage.]]> 2023-09-13 15:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2702373358 elijahlord https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2702385498 Cities started to expand rapidly,and new cities started to pop up with new factories. In 1850 it was recorded that 15% of the nations popularity lived in cities. Even though this sounds great most of the cities had a lot of problems, sewage had polluted the water and a disease called Cholera had killed thousands of citizens living in the cites. ]]> 2023-09-13 16:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2702385498 elijahlord https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2702397706 The cast-iron stove was small enough to use in an average kitchen. The stove was built in factories and was a great success. About 90,000 would end up selling and was just one sign of the way Northern Factories were affecting and changing the lives of an ordinary person. ]]> 2023-09-13 16:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2702397706 elijahlord https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2702406222 The idea originally began with Jethro Wood when he made the Iron plow with interchangeable parts. John Deere would improve Jethro´s idea by making the Steel Plow. More earlier plows made of iron or wood had to be pulled by oxen which were strong but slow. A horse which was less strong could pull a lot faster getting the job done quicker.]]> 2023-09-13 16:16:39 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2702406222 elijahlord https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2702416450 A capitalist would supply money into businesses so the business could use the money for building machines. The capitalists would supply the money in hopes the business would succeed and they would make a profit, a capitalists would also hire workers to work for the business.]]> 2023-09-13 16:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2702416450 elijahlord https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2704469399 Lowell Girls would live in boarding houses and would share rooms with other girls. Their main purpose was to work in their new mills. Lowell Girls would as they came to be called, would work a couple of years before returning back home to marry. The Lowell Girls and women who worked in small towns made an important economic contribution. They would work 12 hours a day,earn a wage, and then send the wages to their families in order to support them. ]]> 2023-09-14 15:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahlord/i91mxossr5k0d5da/wish/2704469399