One day Edison’s boss called him to his office. He asked him how much it would cost to buy his improvements. He wanted $6‚000 but his boss offered $40‚000! Edison bought a factory and started inventing. In 1871‚ Edison married Mary Stiltwell and had three children. In 1876‚ Edison moved out of Newark and into Meleno Park. In 1876 Alexander Bell invented the telephone and Edison improved it by making it battery powered. He then invented a lampback out of graphite and it made the signal clearer
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Education Reform The education before the 1800’s was faulty at best. For the schools that were present they were under funded‚ of poor quality‚ and there was no general standard for education. Americans gradually became aware that there were many benefits to improving public education and that a change was necessary. The education reform began with Horace Mann‚ he was known as “Father of American Education.”. Horace believed that children should be molded into what the teachers and officials wanted
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The growing population‚ and work environment today‚ make us feel safe in the positions that we have in our job‚ but that wasn’t always the case‚ especially if you worked during the Industrial Revolution in the 1800’s. This is the time period‚ when the working conditions were terrible and millions of people found their pay inside of huge factories. Hundreds of people stood in lines in front of factories to get a job‚ for any amount of money. Many of the workers that were hired‚ weren’t skilled and
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testing has been part of American history since the 1800’s. In Hot Topics Carla Mooney says‚ "In the United States school reforms Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe introduced standardized testing in Boston public schools in the mid - 1800s. The men designed the new tests to provide a standard to judge and compare the performance of each school and to gather objective information about the equality of teachers" ( Mooney 11-12).In the mid - 1800s Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe brought standardized
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Medical Advancements of the late 1700’s to the early 1800’s In early medicine‚ the sounds of the heart‚ lungs‚ and organs were few of the only sources to determine if an individual was ill. The act of listening to these sounds‚ known as auscultation‚ was dramatically refined by the invention of the stethoscope. The word stethoscope originated from two Greek words for “I see” and “the chest”’. In the early 1800’s‚ medicine had been immensely improved. Scientists and doctors made advancements that
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impacted life in Hawai’i. In history‚ the sugar plantation grew during the 19th century‚ changed life in Hawaii. Many different races migrated and became our labor force on the plantation. They changed the history of the island and they settled their family in Hawai’i and this has become their new home. Life on Hawaii’s sugar plantations in the 1800’s was hard for immigrant workers‚ because of the ethnic segregation‚ working conditions and living conditions. First‚ ethnic segregation was a problem for
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Chapter eight discusses the migration of the Chinese in the 1800’s. These migrants were looking for a peaceful place to live from than China. In China there were conflicts caused by British Opium Wars. While British Colonialism was pushing the Irish population west across the Atlantic‚ it was also pushing the Chinese east across the Pacific. Another reason for this migration was that they were getting away from the chaos of peasant rebellions. Along with all of this‚ there was an economic crisis
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widespread of the reform movements was the temperance movement‚ which called for reducing the use of ‚or abstaining from‚ any alcoholic beverages. This particular movement came about specifically because the Second Great Awakening religious reformers called for individuals to lead “clean” lives and the movement gained movement across the country. Unfortunately the movement was somewhat unsuccessful. American reformers also sought to implement school reform. Before the early 1800s‚ education for most
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however‚ remained until the early 1900’s‚ when the labour shortage‚ caused by World War I‚ forced employers to utilize the underemployed sectors of society; namely women. Since then government and non-government organizations (NGOs) have used legal and non-legal means to address the changing role of women and the obstacles they face. To rectify gender inequalities
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Factory conditions were harsh in the 1800’s because they had to worked a lot‚ factories had no heating or cooling systems‚ and there were a lot of rapidly movings machines which workers‚ especially children‚ were often hurt by the machines. There were a lot of other things that were bad about this and these are just a few. Factory conditions were harsh in the 1800’s. One reason was that they had to work a lot. Back then the average workday was 11.4 hours and this caused the workers to get tired
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