impact on modern manufacturing with the introduction of his revolutionary uniformity system. In 1798‚ Whitney was awarded a government contract to produce 10‚000 muskets. He proved it was possible to produce interchangeable parts that were similar enough in fit and function to allow for random selection of parts in the assembly of the muskets. Throughout the next century‚ quality involved defining ways to objectively verify the new parts would match the original parts or design. Exact replication was
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The military ideally strives to protect its nation and continuously improve its technology to better suit the conditions of the era. During the Civil War‚ the amount of developed and improved technology was massive. Although there are many‚ there are certain ones that are highly significant or frequently used. For example‚ the gatling gun. Similar to present day machine guns and was used often on the battlefield to cause damage to multiple soldiers in a quick instance. On the other hand‚ there were
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Another thing that was improved upon in the Industrial Revolution was communication throughout the country. One reason for the need for better communication was the ever-expanding railway in the United States. The railroad traveled long distances through the United States’ terrain and was in need of better communication so that train schedules and shipments could stay on time. Samuel B. Morse was the American inventor of the telegraph‚ a machine that could send a message of electrical signals along
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the America’s fertile soil. Other faiths‚ cultures‚ and civilizations --- like the ones the Indians had here‚ or the Africans brought‚ or the French had planted in the Quebec‚ or the Spanish in Mexico ___ they rejected and resisted with cannon‚ musket‚ and sword. This was our land‚ not anybody else’s. (466)” Americans have been‚ and still in some ways are territorial and limited to their beliefs‚ customs‚ and rituals. These beliefs were more crucial in the past decades‚ but still haven’t drastically
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The chemical element copper‚ with Atomic Number 29‚ has been extensively used for thousands of years because of several primary properties that have dictated its use throughout history. Among them we can count durability‚ strength and‚ as a semi-noble metal‚ good resistance to corrosion. With a hardness of 3 on the Mohs scale‚ pure copper is relatively soft and malleable‚ which makes it an easy metal to work with. Analyses of artefacts from lithic civilizations have shown that native copper had not
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the preceding question Eli Whitney (1800) Eli is credited for the early popularization of interchangeable parts‚ which was achieved through standardization and quality control. Through a contract he signed with the U.S. government for 10 000 muskets‚ he was able to command a premium price because of their interchangeable parts. Frederick W. Taylor (1881) Known
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The battle of Culloden Moor‚ fought on 16 April 1746‚ took less than an hour to reach its conclusion and extinguish the Scots’ hopes of returning a Scottish Stuart king to the throne of Scotland. This was a battle between the Jacobites‚ who were the supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie‚ and the Hanoverian British army; and it brought to a bloody end the Jacobite uprising of 1745. The lead-up to this battle started in the 1630s‚ which was a period of religious and political upheaval in Britain.
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Even before the Civil War‚ people were revolting about slavery Gabriel Prosser‚ a literate slave‚ organized a rebellion in 1800‚ located in West Virginia However‚ his uprising was delayed and Gabriel was caught‚ then hanged A Nom-de-guerre is a name given to someone in battle The Civil War gave some people nom-de-guerres that are very well-known After refusing to retreat‚ Thomas Jackson was given the name‚ "Stonewall Jackson‚" for staying put like a stone wall. The USS Monitor was one of the
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confrontation on a global scale unlike any other war in history. For the first time technology had changed the face of armed conflict‚ the landscape of battle had transformed its mission from two forces firing upon each other across broad fields with muskets and cannons to a vast subterranean trench system that traversed hundreds of miles. Between the opposing forces lay barren waste lands covered by machine gun fire and directional barbed wire. These fields were aptly known as “no-man’s land”. The trench
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The American fur trade began before the revolution and was very prominent throughout our early years as a country. As stated by Peter McMillan “The future of North America depended on the flashing paddle and the beaver trap as much as it did on muskets and bayonets”. Furs gave us a sense of value‚ where people could take the furs they had and trade them for better items‚ or items for survivability. With a basic knowledge or understanding people who had no particular set of skills could become a
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