London in 1848, during the Industrial Revolution

In the 1760’s through the 1800’s, the whole world changed. Electricity, light bulbs, cars, washing machines, etcetera. Right now, if you continue reading, I am going to show you through the Industrial Revolution!

London was founded by the Romans as Londinium shortly after their invasion of 43 CE. Londinium was later called London. The Romans abandoned it for about 150 years.

People in London would get food from stores. People would commonly eat potatoes, wheat bread, coffee or tea, porridge and meat. They would grow food at farms.

People in London would commonly wear suits, poofy dresses, shirts, pants, shorts, and more stuff that we wear today. The clothes would have cotton and fabric in them. workers would have to get their clothes really dirty. Also kids would get their clothes dirty by working.

People in London would use lots of factories/machines. Lots of buildings were to live in, but almost all of them were factories. Most of the time people would just be in the factories.

Daniel Defoe was one of the people who helped with the government of London. Some of their laws back then may still be in London today. If London did not have most of those people back then, London would probably not be the same today.

Patrick Dillon, M. Dorothy George, and Jessica Warner were big parts of certain laws. The laws back then may still be there today.  New laws could be created right now.

London would fight in red coats. They would call them the red coats. London’s army was strong and brave.

London would get rich by their factories and workers. London had a lot of money. Imagine what you would do with all that money.

London had a lot of beautiful places and things. Like famous paintings, their clothes, their houses, etc. When I went to London it was one of the beautiful places ever. Besides when it’s raining.

One of the religions that London believed in was Deism. Christianity was also important in this era. People still believe in these religions today.

Famous people in London back then are really famous today. Lots of people in London who invented stuff we use a lot today would get a lot of money if they were still alive. Example Humphry Davy invented the light bulb.

Kids back then would learn a lot of stuff in school that we learn today.  Kids would learn math, literacy, history, science, etc. I wonder what they would learn about back then in history.

That is my research report on London in the 18th century. Hope you learned something about London in the 18th century. It is pretty interesting once you research something it could actually be a little fun

Inventions: First Car Ever Invented

Blueprints of the car ( Left )

First car called Benz Patent-Motorwagen.

This was the first car ever invented. ( Middle )

Karl Benz is the inventor of the car. ( Right )

    Early Life

Karl Benz was born on November 25th, 1844 in Mühlburg, German Confederation. His parents were Johann George Benz and Josephine Vaillant. His name was Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant until he changed it in 1846. His father got killed when Karl was two years old. The reason why he changed his name was for remembrance of his father.

Education

Karl’s mom gave him a good education. He went to grammar school in Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe is in Mühlburg. Karl was a prodigious student. In 1853, at the age of nine he started at the scientifically oriented Lyceum. Next he studied at the Poly-Technical University under the instruction of Ferdinand Redtenbacher. Karl followed his father’s steps and studied engineering. At first he studied locksmithing. On September 30, 1860, at the age fifteen, Karl passed the entrance exam for mechanical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, which he subsequently attended. Benz graduated on July 9, 1864 at the age of nineteen. During these years, while riding his bicycle, he started to envision concepts for a vehicle that would eventually become the horseless carriage.

Mr.Benz first factory and first inventions

In 1871, at the age of twenty-seven, Karl Benz joined August Ritter in launching the Iron Foundry and Mechanical Workshop in Mannheim. It was later renamed Factory for Machines for Sheet-metal Working.

The enterprise’s first year went very badly. Ritter turned out to be unreliable, and the business’s tools were impounded. The difficulty was overcome when Benz’s fiancée, Bertha Ringer, bought out Ritter’s share in the company using her dowry. Stay with me here because Ritter and Ringer sound alike. Remember that Ringer is the fianée and Ritter is the “working buddy”.

On July 20, 1872, Karl Benz and Bertha Ringer got married. They had five children. Their names were Eugen (1873), Richard (1874), Clara (1877), Thilde (1882), and Ellen (1890).

Despite the business misfortunes, Karl Benz led in the development of new engines in the early factory he and his wife owned. To get more revenues, in 1878 he began to work on new patents. First, he concentrated all his efforts on creating a reliable petrol two-stroke engine. Benz finished his two-stroke engine on December 31, 1878, New Year’s Eve, and was granted a patent for it in 1879.

Karl Benz showed his real genius, however, through his successive inventions registered while designing what would become the production standard for his two-stroke engine. Benz soon patented the speed regulation system, the ignition using sparks with battery, the spark plug, the carburetor, the clutch, the gear shift, and the water radiator.

Benz’s lifelong hobby brought him to a bicycle repair shop in Mannheim owned by Max Rose and Friedrich Wilhelm Eßlinger. In 1883, the three founded a new company producing industrial machines Benz & Company Rheinische Gasmotoren-Fabrik, usually referred to as, Benz & Cie. Quickly growing to twentyfive employees, it soon began to produce static gas engines as well.

The success of the company gave Benz the opportunity to indulge in his old passion of designing a horseless carriage. Based on his experience with, and fondness for, bicycles, he used similar technology when he created an automobile. It featured wire wheels (unlike carriages’ wooden ones) with a four-stroke engine of his own design between the rear wheels, with a very advanced coil ignition and evaporative cooling rather than a radiator. Pretty confusing huh. Power was transmitted by means of two roller chains to the rear axle. Karl Benz finished his creation in 1885 and named it the Benz Patent Motorwagen.

It was the first automobile entirely designed as such to generate its own power, not simply a motorized-stage coach or horse carriage, which is why Karl Benz was granted his patent and is regarded as its inventor.

The Motorwagen was patented on January 29, 1886 as DRP-37435: “automobile fueled by gas”. The 1885 version was difficult to control, leading to a collision with a wall during a public demonstration. The first successful tests on public roads were carried out in the early summer of 1886. The next year Benz created the Motorwagen Model 2, which had several modifications, and in 1887, the definitive Model 3 with wooden wheels was introduced, showing at the Paris Expo the same year!

Benz began to sell the vehicle (advertising it as the Benz Patent Motorwagen) in the late summer of 1888, making it the first commercially available automobile in history! That is amazing that he invented cars! Look how much we use them today! The second customer of the Motorwagen was a Parisian bicycle manufacturer Emile Roger, who had already been building Benz engines under license from Karl Benz for several years. Roger added the Benz automobiles (many built in France) to the line he carried in Paris and initially most were sold there.  I bet you that Karl Benz was really rich in the 1900’s.

Replica of the Benz Patent Motorwagen built in 1885

Engine of the Benz Patent Motorwagen

The early 1888 version of the Motorwagen had no gears and could not climb hills unaided. This limitation was rectified after Bertha Benz made her famous trip driving one of the vehicles a great distance and suggested to her husband the addition of another gear.

An important part in the Benz story is this first long distance automobile trip, where the entrepreneurial Bertha Benz, supposedly without the knowledge of her husband, on the morning of August 5, 1888, took this vehicle on a 106 km (66 mi) trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim to visit her mother, taking her sons Eugen and Richard with her. In addition to having to locate pharmacies on the way to fuel up, she repaired various technical and mechanical problems and invented brake lining. After some longer downhill slopes, she ordered a shoemaker to nail leather on the brake blocks. Bertha Benz and sons finally arrived at nightfall, announcing the achievement to Karl by telegram. It had been her intention to demonstrate the feasibility of using the Benz Motorwagen for travel and to generate publicity in the manner now referred to as live marketing. Today, the event is celebrated every two years in Germany with an antique automobile rally. In 2008, Bertha Benz Memorial Route was officially approved as a route of industrial heritage of mankind, because it follows Bertha Benz’s tracks of the world’s first long-distance journey by automobile in 1888. Now everybody can follow the 194 km of signposted route from Mannheim via Heidelberg to Pforzheim (Black Forest) and back. The return trip was along a different, slightly shorter, itinerary, as shown on the maps of the Bertha Benz Memorial Route. Benz’s Model 3 made its wide-scale debut to the world in the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris; about twenty-five Motorwagens were built between 1886 and 1893.

Karl Benz died April 4, 1929 at the age of 84 in Ladenburg, Germany.

Cool right imagine what you can do when you invent something, this can happen!

I would wake up in Hawai’i. I would get served breakfast by Obama. I would have strawberry waffles with whipped cream and strawberry juice, bacon, sausage, greek yogurt, an ‘Orange-a-peel’ smoothie with vita boost from Jamba Juice, and orange juice.

After breakfast I would go to the best zip lining place in Hawai’i called Flyin’ Hawaiian Zipline. While I’m zip lining I would see animals eating a rare humu shumu fruit. It looked good, so I grabbed one and tried it. It tasted so good, that I told my friend. He has cancer and I was sad for him, so I gave it to him. He told me that he went to the doctor’s the next day and the doctor told him that he was cured and didn’t have cancer anymore.

I just found the cure to cancer! I said if I just found the cure to cancer might as well end world hunger.

I made a pill that has breakfast, lunch, and dinner in it. I made so much that I actually ended world hunger. Fox, Universal, and SONY decided to make movies about me ending world hunger and curing cancer. All the doctors use the fruit and pills. I donated the money that I was given for my discoveries to Africa so that they can buy new houses and supplies.

I would fly to California so that I could eat lunch at In-N-Out Burger.  Billy Joel and the creator of Domo would eat with me. I would have a double-double and some cheese fries with a vanilla milkshake.

Billy Joel would drive me to his house and he would teach me some piano lessons. He would teach me almost all of his songs.

Billy would take me to Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, so that I can go tubing with my cousin Michael. We would tube for a few hours and go off ramps. We would try to do tricks, but fail.

My dad would be there and we would go fishing until we caught a big, big fish. We would catch so many different types of fish.

Since Vancouver, Canada is close by, my dad would take me up there so that I can go skiing with my mom. We would ski until it was sundown. We would have so much fun that we would always remember this moment.

My mom and I would go eat dinner in Vancouver. We would have a good steak and some baked potatoes. We would have the best dinner ever. My mom was having so much fun that she would get me a dog. It would be a Schnauzer Poodle. It would be apricot colored and it would be named Caramel!

I would fly back to my house in California with Caramel and go to bed for 16 hours.

The Reign of Terror

In the end of 1793, France has been horrified of the revolution. There was so much killing that you couldn’t think of anything nice. The French would kill kings and queens or any ordinary citizen.

The guillotine was introduced to France by Dr. Joseph Guillotine. He didn’t invent it, but he supported it. One of the first doomsday inventions was the guillotine. The guillotine would have two wooden blocks  holding it up and would have a super sharp, big razor on the top tied to a string. When someone would pull the string the razor would fall down and chop the person’s head off. At the bottom of the guillotine there would be a slot that so they can open it for the head to go inside. It would have a long board so that the people who were getting executed would have to lie down. The French would do this in the middle of the town so that everyone can watch.

The tumbrel was a two wheeled cart used to take prisoners to the guillotine.

“Maximilien Robespierre was “Incorruptible” because he refused to take bribes or profits from the revolution.” Terror was Robespierre method. Robespierre and his friends were put into jail. Robespierre tried to shoot himself but he only hurt his jaw. The next day he faced the guillotine and moments later he was dead.

The Jacobins were a political club. The Jacobins demanded the deaths of Louis and Marie Antoinette.

Bibliography:

www.myholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbrel

History and Geography, Chapter 10

I think that people shouldn’t keep exotic animals because if they do they can kill people or hurt people. I think it’s a good idea if people STOP hurting animals. We may get less supplies but people should let them be. If animals are wild you do not want to keep them as pets.If they are a type of pet, go ahead.

The Absolute Monarchs of France

King Louis XIV:

King Louis XIV was known as the Sun King because everything revolved around him. He became king when he was 4 years old. He lived in Versailles. You would have to wear rich clothes without grey he hated grey. You would have to bow and take off your cap when the kings food walked by. Instead of knocking on the door you would have to scratch it with your smallest finger (pinkie) on your left hand. He was king for  72 years. He died in 1715. People were happy when he died. The pressures that he faced were that the people of France hated him and they wanted to revolt because not everyone was rich, the country was in debt. There were too many wars

King Louis XV:

He was the great grandson of Louis XIV. Louis XV became king when he was 5 years old. He was more interested of having fun instead of doing work. When he died the people hated him too because he was taxing the poor and spending a bunch of money. He faced the pressure of having fun and he was isolated from the people. He just wanted to party and he didn’t care if he left the French in a mess. His reign was different the Louis XIV because he was an ineffective ruler.

King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette:

He was kind and generous but had trouble making decisions. He was more interested in hunting than working. He would keep track of what he would kill. He was shy. Louis XVI faced the pressure of being king because he was shy and weak of doing the job. He was too young to be king. King Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette. Smallpox killed King Louis XV and they became king and queen. Marie Antoinette was the daughter of an Austrian Empress. Since she was from Austria people hated her because Austria was an enemy of France. Most people liked how they were a couple, but things went badly right away. Marie was spending a bunch of money on jewels, clothes, and gambling. Louis XVI made the mistake of firing the ancien regime.  The people thought he would be different, but he still made the poor people pay taxes and not the rich people.  And Marie Antoinette made fun of poor people.  Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI got beheaded and died.

King Louis XIV:

King Louis XIV was known as the Sun King because everything revolved around him. He became king when he was 4 years old. He lived in Versailles. You would have to wear rich clothes without grey he hated grey. You would have to bow and take off your cap when the kings food walked by. Instead of knocking on the door you would have to scratch it with your smallest finger (pinkie) on your left hand. He was king for  72 years. He died in 1715. People were happy when he died. The pressures that he faced were that the people of France hated him and they wanted to revolt because not everyone was rich, the country was in debt. There were too many wars

King Louis XV:

He was the great grandson of Louis XIV. Louis XV became king when he was 5 years old. He was more interested of having fun instead of doing work. When he died the people hated him too because he was taxing the poor and spending a bunch of money. He faced the pressure of having fun and he was isolated from the people. He just wanted to party and he didn’t care if he left the French in a mess. His reign was different the Louis XIV because he was an ineffective ruler.

King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette:

He was kind and generous but had trouble making decisions. He was more interested in hunting than working. He would keep track of what he would kill. He was shy. Louis XVI faced the pressure of being king because he was shy and weak of doing the job. He was too young to be king. King Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette. Smallpox killed King Louis XV and they became king and queen. Marie Antoinette was the daughter of an Austrian Empress. Since she was from Austria people hated her because Austria was an enemy of France. Most people liked how they were a couple, but things went badly right away. Marie was spending a bunch of money on jewels, clothes, and gambling. Louis XVI made the mistake of firing the ancien regime.  The people thought he would be different, but he still made the poor people pay taxes and not the rich people.  And Marie Antoinette made fun of poor people.  Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI got beheaded and died.

The History of the Guinness World Records

“On 10 November 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Breweries, went on a shooting party in the North Slob, by the River Slaney in County Wexford, Ireland. After missing a shot at a golden plover, he became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or the red grouse (it is the plover).  That evening at Castlebridge House, he realised that it was impossible to confirm in reference books whether or not the golden plover was Europe’s fastest game bird.  Beaver knew that there must be numerous other questions debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland and abroad, but there was no book in the world with which to settle arguments about records. He realised then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove successful.”

When The Guinness World Record started in 1955 it changed the world a lot, it could be from the world’s longest duration balancing  a chainsaw on the chin to the largest collection of Coca-Cola bottles. Ever since people heard about this they would do anything for it, like finding the world’s smallest dog. Example one person built the tallest toothpick sculpture.

There can be the funniest of records and the stupidest of them.

When I grow up I want to do the largest pizza commercially available. The record for 2015 is 4 ft 6 in x 4 ft 6 in. You can think of anything from biggest burger to most french fries cooked in one minute. Sometimes you can ask them to sleep overnight if its something long. If you wanted to get in the Guinness book of World Records, what would you do?

In the Guinness book of World Records you can do stuff like family activities, sports, strength, or even find the world’s fastest turtle. The Guinness book of World Records has been going on for 60 years. You can even get more than one record, one guy got 23 records and it took him 33 years to compete with other people to win the record.

So when you want to get into the book, what will you do?

Bibliography:

Guinness World Records 2015, 60th Year Anniversary edition

www.Wikipedia.org

Prompt of the week #2

Dear David and Howard,

Thank you David and Howard for getting me my headphones for Christmas. Thanks you guys for being awesome and taking me places. Thanks for everything. I like how the headphones are wireless. Hopefully you can come to the Rose Parade with us.

Sincerly,

Domenic

The Three Estates

Peasants ( 3rd Estate )

The peasants were poor.  They would have little food and get paid not a lot.  They are basically slaves.  They would wear potato bags or at least anything possible.  Peasants wouldn’t be paid and they would eat bread.  The rich would take your dad away either to fix something or to go in the army.  You wouldn’t see him in about a week if he went to fix something.  “You ( if you were a child ) would normally have to milk the cow, but wouldn’t have to because your crops failed to grow and your dad sold the cow for money for bread.”  Normally the crops that you grow would fail to grow.  98% of the population was peasants.  The peasants would have to pay a lot of taxes.  Your house has a dirt floor.  You could make it better, but you would have to pay more taxes.  Your house would be really tiny.

Noblemen ( 2nd Estate )

The noblemen like the way that everything was. They would pay few taxes.  Almost all of the noblemen would fight in the army.  The noblemen would live in the city.

Churchmen ( 1st Estate )

The churchmen would be just like the 2nd estate, but would have to pay 0% of the taxes.  2% of the population was the 1st and 2nd estate.

Marie Antoinette was an aristocrat.  Clergy people were in the first estate.  The bourgeoisie were Noblemen.  Sansuelottes were peasants.

Picture Thought

The peasant probably feels like he/she has so much work that it feels like he/she is carrying the 1st and 2nd estate.  The peasant has to do all the work for free.  They wouldn’t get paid for all their work.

Bibliography

The history book;Wikipedia;www.frenchhistory.com

Paris

France is located near England.  France is in Europe.  Paris is located in northern France.   Paris there because of the Seine river.  In the 18th century the population grew from 400,000 to 600,000.

They grew food by the river’s water and the fresh soil.  They would eat bread with butter and they would also eat meat pie, sometimes.  They started eating pastries.  They would also start creating sauces and souffles appeared for the first time.

The upper class would wear poofy dresses or suits with or without wigs. The lower class would wear rags. Clothes became colorful and showy. The clothes became fashionable.

Paris was built in a spiraling pattern.  Refined, nature inspired curves were the Rococo style.  This became popular.  There were lots of details and light. Chimneys were everywhere. Lots of buildings were made of “Paris stone,” which is actually limestone.

Paris was always ruled by kings.  It was a monarchy.  Then there was the Reign of Terror and the French Revolution.  Then came democracy.

Most of the first estate made the laws.  There was civil and commercial law.  It was a quite enlightened government.

They beheaded people with a guillotine.  Napoleon Bonaparte started out as an officer to help in wars. When he killed a leader he got promoted to general. Since he was such a great general he became the ruler of France.  Napoleon conquered several other countries.

The country was in debt.  France experienced a slow economic recovery after the death of Louis XIV.   Rising prices of agriculatural products were profitable for large landowners.  People got rich with mines, metallurgy and textiles.

They wanted to make Paris the most beautiful city in the world.  They built bridges and churches.  Paris was the center of philosophic and scientific activity.  The Renaissance was from 1798-1894.

They spoke French.  Parisians loved to live life. They liked beautiful things like parks and clothes.  They liked to eat good food and drink wine.  Parisians liked luxury.

Bibliography:  Wikipedia

theguardian.com