Factory Fire Ashley New York - On Saturday March 25th it had been an excruciating week for both men and women machine workers at the Triangle factory in lower Manhattan. The workers were making plans for the night and looking forward to their one day off‚ when suddenly flames combust from a waste basket underneath one of the workers tables. Workers hurried to get buckets of water to extinguish the fire but it had been too late. The fire had outburst consuming the air and expanded viciously to
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On the morning of March 25‚ 1911‚ the Triangle Waist Company had a fire breakout which killed 141 young girls and an about 5 of them men. This fire is believed to have started by cigarettes or matches that had been thrown in a pile of waste‚ and witnessed to have ended in being the greatest industrial disaster till that time. This company broke numerous amount of laws that were created to protect the workers‚ such as not being allowed to have doors locked during working hours and having correct
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scientists also contributed to hydraulics‚ including da Vinci‚ Mariotte and Boyle. The scientist who discovered the main principle I will be talking about is Pascal. A French scientist who studied math and physics. His work included studying atmospheric pressure‚ conic sections and the principles of hydrostatics. After Pascal there is Bernoilli‚ Franklin and Froud‚ who all also contributed to the science of hydraulics. How it works (the physics part) The basic rule of using hydraulic
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The tragedy of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire sparked the uprising in the fight for better shape of the working environment when 145 of the innocent were killed. It was that it began in a small rag bin‚ a simple target for a fire in a building with locked fire escape routes‚ unoperational elevators‚ and no ventilation‚ that initiated the fight for worker safety. Although most hand-made garment businesses have been made irrelevant in the U.S. due to industrialization and mass production today
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Triangle Waist Company (manufacture of women clothing and linens)‚ located in the lower Manhattan area of New York City in the Asch Building. Triangle Waist Company had two owners Max Blanck and Issac Harris. Black and Harris went to partnership that would capitalize on Blancks business sense and Harris industry expertise. (PBS) Both men were about profits for the company and not their own employees working conditions that would lead to one of the worst disasters. In the Asch Building‚ the owners
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Sadie Nussbaum‚ an eighteen-year-old Jewish girl who had lived in the United States of America her entire life along with 148 of her fellow workers‚ was killed in the fire in the Triangle Shirt Factory(Nussbaum death certificate). Ever since‚ historians and advocates have asked the question‚ “Who should be held responsible for their deaths?” After looking at many sources it seems that the owners of the building‚ Blanck and Harris‚ were ultimately responsible for the fire. This is because they failed
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by surface tension‚ makes a barometer using a very small glass tube‚ having a diameter d = 1.45mm‚ in order to save on the amount of mercury he needs. He reads the barometric pressure to be 7 519 mm Hg. a) W hat is the corresponding pressure in Pascal? b) W hat is the pressure after correction for the meniscus effect? (σ = 0.478 N/m‚ θcontact = 1390) 5- A vertical‚ clean‚ glass piezometer tube has an inside diamet er of 0.77 mm. When a pressure is applied‚ water at 330 C rises into the tube
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together to form Thunder. Thunder added drag and drop tool capability‚ codeless object GUI creations‚ and event oriented programming. Visual Basic was released in 1991 by Microsoft to compete with other popular programming languages such as C‚ C++ and Pascal. It was until version 3.0 when Visual Basic became the hottest programming language on the Market. Visual Basics provided tools which make programming much simpler that writing code in other languages. With these tools it cut programming time down
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_________________________________________________________________________ These interactions contribute to the pressure on the walls of the container. Pressure is defined as force per unit area. The SI units of pressure are newtons per square meter (N/m2)‚ or pascals (Pa). 3. Slowly drag the temperature (T) slider back and forth. (Note: In this Gizmo‚ the Kelvin scale is used to measure temperature. On the Kelvin scale‚ 0 degrees is absolute zero‚ the coldest possible temperature. Absolute zero is equal to
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_________________________________________________________________________ These interactions contribute to the pressure on the walls of the container. Pressure is defined as force per unit area. The SI units of pressure are newtons per square meter (N/m2)‚ or pascals (Pa). 3. Slowly drag the temperature (T) slider back and forth. (Note: In this Gizmo‚ the Kelvin scale is used to measure temperature. On the Kelvin scale‚ 0 degrees is absolute zero‚ the coldest possible temperature. Absolute zero is equal to
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