James Watt
James Watt was born in Greenock on the 19th of January 1769. He learned Classics and mathematics, he also liked making models of things. In 1764 he worked on a Newcomen Steam engine and found out that he could make a lot of improvements. In 1769 he patented the separate condenser.
He was married to Margret Miller and the couple had 6 children. 9 years after they got married she died.
After this tragedy Watt decided to improve on the Newcomen engine, he realized that there was a lot of power being wasted. he made a separate condenser. He also attached rotary motion. This meant the engine could do different operations. He was not successful in making money so he went in partnership with Matthew Boulton and became a wealthy man.
In 1776 Watt married Ann MC Gregor and had two children.
Because of rotary motion, Steam Engines could power could power the cotton mills. This was why Watt was such an important person in the Industrial Revolution. Watt died on the 25 august 1819 and was buried in Birmingham. Finally in 1882 a unit of electrical power was named after him in honor of what he did.
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My Amusement Park
What sort of amusement parks have you gone to? I made my own in four years. This is a description of how it looks now.First I will start with the rides. The first ride is called Nemesis, the scariest of all the rides, I’ll tell you why in a minute. Then we have Fury Lake, Hall of Darkness, 8 And Under, 15+15, and Sky Fall which is still under construction.
Nemesis is the scariest ride because the tracks go over a lava pit that, at any moment, might blow. Another scary thing is that the roller coaster goes two hundred miles per hour on a two mile stretch of track. Fury lake is almost as scary as Nemesis, but all that happens is that a wave maker makes a wave that almost makes the roller coaster come off the tracks. The roller coaster has to be so well balanced so that it does not come off the tracks.
The Hall of Darkness is not that scary, its just that you are in a dark hall and Zombies walk out and it stinks of rotting flesh (made by rotting animal flesh). There are also creepy sounds like what zombies make in Minecraft. 8 and Under is not scary at all, because as you might have guessed it is for kids 8 and under. In this ride the roller coaster goes about 20 miles per hour over bridges, under rickety old beams, and over river and streams.
15+15 is only scary for people with dyslexia or number dyslexia, or both. In this ride you go through number and letters. Usually I do not go on this ride because I have dyslexia, although people without dyslexia say that it is great, but whenever I go on I get dizzy.
If you think that there are only rides then you are quit mistaken. My amusement park has food, lots of food. If you order schnitzel, with a side mashed potato and gravy. you will get a schnitzel, with a side of mashed potato and gravy. We serve anything from a piece of broccoli to fried hippopotamus.
Another great thing that we have is our arcade room. In our arcade room we have an assortment of games like MW3 and Minecraft and League of Legends Champions. An extension to the arcade room is another activity we have for kids 9 and under, the Fossil Room where you can find and take home fossils ( they are really plastic fossils made to look and feel like real fossils), you dig around until you find a “fossil”, then you use your little brush for the rest.
For me the elephant rides are the best. I borrowed 2 or 3 elephants from India and got the owners to let me let kids ride on them. You get on and sit around the edge of this box that is covered by this indigo color thing to keep the sun off of you.Considering that the elephants are only walking they still go pretty fast. If you do go on an elephant at my amusement park please don’t drop a mouse.
If you ever come to my amusement park have a great time.
The Perfect Day by Thomas Doar
The perfect day to me would be a lot of things, but the main thing would be making a video game where you get to do whatever you want to. You can torture any person from One Direction and when you get a certain score you get to destroy Justin Bieber and Harry from One Direction with an AK-47. Taylor Swift will be next, singing about all those boys that dumped her, all I can say is that “no wonder they dumped her singing about all that stuff.
Industrial Revolution
Stephen Gardiner once said, “The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.” Why was it an extraordinary jump you may ask? This revolution changed how things were produced and how efficiently they were made.
History:
The Industrial Revolution began in England in the early 1700s. People wanted to find out how to make their lives easier. This came in the form of new inventions, large factories and an increase in population. From the 1500s on there was a huge increase in population. There weren’t enough farm jobs, therefore people moved to the city to work in factories. Farmers came up with better ways to farm, which made less jobs in the country.
Inventors & Inventions:
The Industrial Revolution inspired many inventions. One of the main inventions was the Steam Engine made by Thomas Nucamin in 1712. It pumped out water from mines, which made is easier to access coal and metals. Later, James Watt improved the Steam Engine in 1775 by creating a small, separate condensing cylinder. In 1844, Ellis Howe invented the sewing machine. Another famous inventor was Nikola Tesla – he created the Induction Electric Motor in 1888. A few years later, Eli Whitney would invent the Cotton Gin. This device easily pulled out cotton seeds – this made clothing production more efficient.
Everyday People:
When the Industrial Revolution started, factories opened and families were forced to make their children to go to work. Eighty percent of people were very poor and had no other choice. Factory owners often paid child workers very little. Factory owners would treat children workers horribly – constantly beating them and overworking them. Children were used because they could be easily replaced. Some work days would be 19 hour days. However, the Factory Act changed all of this in 1833. Some of the provisions were: children could not work on clothing until age 9, children ages 9 to 13 could only work 9 hours a day, children ages 13 to 18 could only work 12 hours a day and children under 11 had to go to school for 2 hours a day. There was very little time to relax. During this hard time, people turned to religion for comfort.
Role of Government:
In the beginning of the Industrial Revolution the government was not involved. For example life for people who worked at mills and factories often had terrible wages and working conditions. Laissez Faire had a major impact during this time. It means leave it alone free from any restrains such at taxation, labor laws, environmental laws, etc. Pretty much any owner of a factory could do anything he or she wanted, dump their coal, ash in the river, pay their employees in store credit, turn them into slaves, work them as much as 19 hours a day the government had less interference. Until Lord Ashly purposed a bill where children only had to work 10 hours a day. There was also the mines act, where no children or woman could operate winding gear if under 15. Last but not least, there was the fielders act, if you were under 18 and you lived far away from work you only had to work 10 hours a day.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, the Industrial Revolution effects how we live today. Although it put people out of business, it still has it’s silver lining. Many great inventions were made during this period. The world took a jump into industrial advancement.
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The Three Estates
THE FIRST ESTATE
The first estate was the highest class.
THE SECOND ESTATE
The second estate was the Nobility, much like the first estate they did not pay taxes, except when there is a war. They lived of the taxes of the third estate and the money of the King. Also they lived off the money that the third estate paid the church to go to heaven.
THE THIRD ESTATE
The third estate probably deserved to go to heaven considering how much work they did. This estate was the poorest estate, made up of peasants and artisans. This estate did all of the work, and as I said before the first and second estates practically lived off of them
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Thomas Hobbes
THOMAS HOBBES ESSAY
Thomas Hobbes was born 1588 in Wiltshire, England. His dad was a drunkard and fought with someone in front of his church. He fled in fear of being killed, leaving his three children to be raised by his brother.
When he was 15 Hobbes started studying travel and cartography at Oxford. Five years later he graduated and began tutoring Lord HardWick and went to Europe with their family.
In 1662 he published his first work, the translation of the Thucydides’ History of the Pellaponiesian war. He went to Paris and studied a way to argue using math. On his third trip he met Galileo and was influenced by the idea of motion and wrote a book in which he stated that you can explane many things using the law of motion. Then he tutored the Prince of Wales (later to become King of England). In 1651 he published his most famous piece of work, the Leviathan ,which drew the idea that if the government is not serving you well, then you can choose your own form of government. Hobbes had a lot of aguments with the government and professors. Following the restoration of 1660, Hobbes started work with the restored King, Charles the second, who gave him an allowance.
Hobbes was stopped from publishing in 1666 when it was criminalizing to be an atheist, so he returned to his classical studies and wrote an auto-biography. Then he translated Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad, before he died in 1697 leaving us with some very good books and a smart King.