Most of us have heard of the use of palms as parlor plants In fact there is a variety that is called the parlor palm But other than these easy to grow graceful plants what other greenery did Victorian era homes use to brighten the interior Houseplants were incorporated in many rooms of the home For instance
As the industrial revolution developed so did the iron industry A set of innovations from different materials to new techniques allowed iron production to expand greatly In 1709 Darby became the first man to smelt iron with coke which is made from heating coal Although this was a key date the impact was limited as the iron was
Electricity played a major role in the 1920s Many new appliances and products were developed during this time Wash machines irons vacuum cleaners electric
Here is just a short list of some of the old roses they still offer for sale with the year they were first offered for sale Ballerina roseHybrid muskfrom 1937 Cecile Brunner rosePolyanthafrom 1881 Francis E Lester roseHybrid muskfrom 1942 Madame Hardy rose
2 days ago Or Let the woman sit cross legged and eat fragrant bread of soused durra while rubbing the parts with the poppy plant Wickes 1953a p 154 The prescription demonstrates that lactation failure was a problem during ancient Egyptian times and as such wet nursing was the primary alternative feeding method Osborn 1979a
The author noted that the average concentration of K Ca and Mg in tomato fruits decreased from 288 to 250 mg 100 g −1 FW 13 3 to 7 mg 100 g −1 FW and 11
If you lived in town in the 1930s your house had probably electricity In town families started using electric stoves coffee makers waffle irons hot plates electric roasters and Waring Blenders during the 1930s But if you lived in a farmhouse in the country you did not have electricity
For centuries a ship s biscuit an iron like cracker was aboard any ship that left port because it could last for months even years under the right conditions During the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe baking was a carefully controlled profession managed through a series of Guilds or professional associations
Iron bowl distributor production along with the molding department was moved to the plant from plant 2 in 1949 when the cafeteria was installed in plant 2 In 1950 an addition was added on the east end for more capacity to manufacture of the phenolic resin thermoset distributor caps and rotors
Inland Steel grew steadily through the 1930s when the Indiana Harbor plant had four blast furnaces and over 9 000 employees Another important local plant was the South Deering facility of Wisconsin Steel which supplied metal to International Harvester its Chicago based corporate parent Other important steel companies in the area during the
The turn of the 20th century was a time of tremendous modernization in the home and particularly the kitchen Between 1900 and 1920 most houses in cities and towns were connected to the municipal water system which made life in the kitchen a lot easier And the advent of gas ranges meant that at least for some homeowners the days of
This Is What Life In Kentucky Looked Like In The 1930s WOW Kentucky life in the 1930s was a lot different than what it is nowadays Everything was simpler yet harder at the same time Most work was done by hand and tool and automobiles were for the wealthy The middle class and poor utilized horses mules and donkeys with wagons or they
Some legendary board games did come out in the 1930s like Monopoly Scrabble and Sorry It s hard to believe those games are that old The rich kids had Erector sets toy trains and air rifles The had all different kinds of dolls and doll houses to choose from Also there was a wide variety of adult like toys like kids typewriters
Through the early 1930s the town government closed ranks with the mill and barred union organizers from holding any meetings Workers understood that if you d even so much as mentioned the word union around the plant you got fired African American workers composed between 5 and 10 percent of Duquesne s workforce
The Parkersburg Iron Steel Plant Sherman Dils Second floor of his Motor Mart Ford Dealership early 1930s that was later known as the coliseum The Coliseum the Largest Ball Room in the state with 18 000 sq feet of floor space latter was a Skating Rink 1935 HISTORY OF THE DILS FAMILY PARKERSBURG WV
5 7 Iron Steel Production in Britain South Wales 112 5 8 Port Talbot/Margam Production Early 1944 114 5 9 Plant at Port Talbot Steelworks 1944 114 5 10 Plant at Margam Steelworks–1944 114
In the 1930s Cleveland workers were also receptive to the formation of industrial unions especially the UNITED STEELWORKERS and the UNITED AUTO WORKERS which crossed over trade or craft lines A sit down strike at the General Motors Fisher Body plant on Coit Rd in 1936 was a catalytic event in unionizing the automobile industry
recognized foundries for cast iron and aluminum cookware There are however many MANY others that made cast iron and aluminum products This link will be for those cast iron foundries in the USA and Canada Some of these companies may not be actual foundries but may have just had their name put on pieces by another foundry
Woodward Iron Company Four iron making enterprises each controlling substantial deposits of iron ore coal limestone and dolomite came to dominate the industry These companies were unique in their use of advanced blast furnace plants that smelted iron ore into pig iron Woodward Iron Sloss Sheffield Steel and Iron Company and Thomas Works operated blast furnace plants that produced
Saginaw Malleable Iron in World War Two Saginaw Malleable Iron Division of General Motors Corporation in World War Two WWII Saginaw MI Rest in Peace This page updated Saginaw Malleable Iron Division SMI was formed in 1917 and became part of General Motors in 1919 at which point there were three plants in the
The Hindenburg would have required at least 15 times more iron oxide to achieve the correct ratio and this would have made it too heavy to fly The TV documentary Secrets of the Dead What Happened to the Hindenburg shows an experiment by Bain on a small sample of the Hindenburg s outer skin recovered from the crash site
The iron lung was large cumbersome and very expensive but it saved the lives of thousands of polio victims The iron lung was the state of the art in life support technology in the first half of the 20th century The first iron lung was used at Boston Children s Hospital to save the life of an eight year old with polio in 1928
The iron and steel industry continues to be an economic mainstay of Greater Cleveland In 1992 the primary metal industries in Cuyahoga County employed 14 690 while almost twice that number 27 978 were employed in the manufacture of fabricated metal products Carol Poh Miller
Iron smelting and the use of iron was especially well established in the south Indian megalithic cultures of this period The discovery of the Naikund furnace dating to 700 BCE attests to early smelting of iron Fig 1 Near the furnace arrowhead chisels fish hook and other iron objects have
The Rouge after Henry Ford In 1947 at the pinnacle of the Rouge s success Henry Ford died The roar of the Rouge began to fade as Ford Motor Company embarked on a new era that stressed decentralization and a more global approach Henry Ford II and his new team of Whiz Kid managers continued to fully employ the Rouge through the late
The European iron workers knew the Easterners had better iron but not the processes involved in fashioning stronger iron products Entire nations launched efforts to discover the process The first known European breakthrough in the production of cast iron which led quickly to the first practical steel did not come until 1740
The 19th Century 1809 Centrifugal casting is developed by A G Eckhardt of Soho England 1815 The cupola is introduced in the United States in Baltimore MD 1818 First cast steel produced by the crucible process in the U S at the Valley Forge Foundry 1825 Aluminum the most common metal in the earth s crust is isolated 1826 Seth Boyden of Newark NJ is the first to develop a process
hydroelectric plants Gorge and Newhalem following the footsteps of citizens who visited the town in the 1930s Although features have changed the town retains its original layout and many of the historic structures from the pre war years As you stroll through the town today imagine what it must have been like to reach this
1930s The Great Depression affected nearly every American family in some way In 1932 when Franklin D Roosevelt was elected President one in every four workers was unemployed and more than 50 000 businesses had failed over the past two years Things were so The Great Depression affected nearly every American family in some way In 1932
The Ontario plant continued to manufacture electric irons until it closed in 1982 It gets better Several milestones marked the Ontario plant s history the 20 millionth iron gold plated was presented to Una Winter Earl Richardson s sister in 1941 the 50 millionth produced in 1956
In recent decades iron and steelworkers in Chicago have suffered a fate common to iron and steelworkers across the nation Wisconsin Steel went out of business in 1980 U S Steel closed the South Works in 1992 Plant shutdowns like these have devastated the economy of the entire South Side
Birmingham A Powerful History Forged from Iron April 26 2017 The Ensley Works operated between 1888 and 1976 and became part of U S Steel in 1907 For years it was the largest steel producer in the Southeast Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Photographic Archives Editor s note This is the first story in a series exploring the
Some legendary board games did come out in the 1930s like Monopoly Scrabble and Sorry It s hard to believe those games are that old The rich kids had Erector sets toy trains and air rifles The had all different kinds of dolls and doll houses to choose from Also there was a wide variety of adult like toys like kids typewriters
Birmingham A Powerful History Forged from Iron April 26 2017 The Ensley Works operated between 1888 and 1976 and became part of U S Steel in 1907 For years it was the largest steel producer in the Southeast Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Photographic Archives Editor s note This is the first story in a series exploring the
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