Activities for this week

Source: http://globetribune.info/2011/09/05/labor-day-vs-may-day/

This is the work you will have to do this week in the classroom and at home: 


MONDAY, 30th

- Student in charge of the journal: Ana de la Fuente.

- Read point 3 ("Socialism and anarchism") on pages 29 and 30 and do activities 13, 14 and 15 of page 31

WEDNESDAY, 1st FEBRUARY

- Student in charge of the journal: Juan Carlos Huertas

- Check with Cristina Blanco the activities you did at home and on Monday. She will use the PowerPoint presentation to show you images and schemes to help you complete the information of the activities.

- Read the point "The International Workingmen´s Association" on page 30 and do exercise 16 of page 31. If you don´t have time during the lesson, do this exercise for homework. 

THURSDAY, 2nd FEBRUARY

- Student in charge of the journal: Mari Luz Ortiz

- Check the exercises left.

- Do the crossword of page 32 to review the unit. Don´t check your notes or the book. Try to do it with what you remember about the unit. When you finish it, check it with Cristina.

You should also start thinking about a date to do the exam of this unit and the last contents of Unit 3 (Restoration, Ferdinand VII´s reign, the Regencies and the Moderate Decade in Spain). 

26th of January

https://dpeal.wikispaces.com/Industrial+revolution

Today Cristina has been with us,she has shown us a power point to chek the exercises.
We have checked, six questions about the Development of the first industrial revolution.
New energy sources appeared hydroelectric power and coal,new organization fo industrial work: factory system: concentration fo workers and machines in big factories and division of work. The industries that developed during the frist industrial revolution were Textile industry and Iron and steel industry. Development of textile and iron and steel industry due to the production process was mechanized withi some inventions, use of coke in blas furnances, the bessemer that transformer iron into steel etc. Improvements in transport due to ameliration of traditional infrastructures, speed increased and the duration and travel duration and expenses travels reduced.
Then we have checked 3 exercises about the Development of industrial capitalism.
Principles of economic liberalism
-Economy based on self interest.
-The different interests of the people meet in the market and they interact according to the law of supply and demand.
-The means of production ar private property of a reduced group of people
-The state doesn´t have to intervene in economy.
Banks in industrial capitalism provided enterprises with capital through loans, they invested directly in eterprises buying their shares and they facilitate payments by check.
Companies divided their capital into stocks because companies needed more money and it was difficult to find investors.
After that we have checked the last three exercises about the Second industrial revolution. The main sources used were electricity and oil the invention of the dynamo which made the production of electricity in hydroelectirc power stations possible. The invention of the alternator and the transformer allowed electricity transport. Oil was used as fuel, many inventions transformed it in the main energy source. The consequences were:
- Mass production allowed more people to get acces to product.
- Massive explotation of resources
- Beginning of massive emigration from the countryside to the cities.
- Cyclical crises appeared.
Society was divided into two parts.
- Bourgeoisie: Owner of industries and enterprises.
- High bourgeoisie
- Middle bourgeoisie
- Petty bourgeoisie
- Working class:( Ploretariat) They were the majority of the society. They have to work for a salary.
At the end of the class Cristina has given us some homework for next wee: page 31 exercises 10,11,12.

2011-2012 Challenges. Number 17

Here you have some questions about the Second Industrial Revolution inventions:  

QUESTION 1

Who were the inventors of the following crucial inventions: first electric battery, first electric motor, telegraph, incandescent light bulb, four-stroke engine, radio?

QUESTION 2

What was the first electrical telegraph line? When did it start working?

QUESTION 3

What was Menlo Park? Who was the "Wizard of Menlo Park" and why was he called this way?

QUESTION 4

What was the so called "War of currents"? Who were its main protagonists? What lethal invention was related to this war?

QUESTION 5

There are thousands of women inventors, but their achievements remain mainly unknown. Here you have some important women inventors who contributed to make life easier: Margaret Knight, Mary Anderson, Josephine Cochran and Katherine Blodgett. What did they invent?

QUESTION 6

Some inventions soon became consumer goods and are present almost in every house in the developed countries. Who were the inventors of the sewing machine and the washing machine?

P.S: I´m not including the sources of the pictures until someone answers the questions. 

Antonio Meucci, the true inventor of the telephone

Antonio Meucci

Source: http://italyculturemonth.org/programs_palladio.htm

You may have studied at school that Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone. But this was not exactly true. The true inventor of the telephone was an Italian-American called Antonio Meucci. In 1854 Meucci built the first telephone to communicate some rooms of his house, beacuse his wife suffered from rheumatism. In 1860 he presented his invention in New York, but he didn´t have enough money to pay the patent expenses. He called  his invention "Telettrofono". Some years later he had an accident and his wife had to sell many of his prototypes in a pawnshop. Once recovered, Meucci tried to redeem his prototype from the pawnshop, but it had been sold to an unidentified young man. Meucci worked hard to rebuild his telephone and get money enough to pay the patent, but he couldn´t pay a definitive patent. In 1874 he sent his material and an explanation of his invention to the Western Union Telegraph Company, but he couldn´t get a meeting with the executives of the company. As he didn´t receive any answer from the company, he decided to ask for his invention to be returned, but they told him that the telephone had been lost. Two years later, Alexander Graham Bell, who shared a laboratory with Meucci at the Western Union, registered the patent of the telephone with his name and became very rich and famous. Bell apparently stole Meucci´s invention. Meucci went to the court and tried to be recognized as the real inventor of the telephone, but he died before the trial finished. In 2002 the Congress of the USA definitively recognized Meucci as the true inventor of the telephone. 

Source: http://chestofbooks.com/crafts/scientific-american/sup4/Meucci-s-Claims-To-The-Telephone.html

More information: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jun/17/humanities.internationaleducationnews

Wednesday 25th - January -2012

Today Cristina Blanco has been with us and Juan Carlos, Laura Bustamante, Andrea, Carmen, Yolanda Abad and Isabel have done the make up exam from the first Term.

We have had less homework today, I think is better because the ones who were doing the make up exam would be behind us and would have a lot of work. Well some students have finished yesterday's homework and others have started today's homework.

Today's homework has been to read points E about the second industrial revolution and point F about the consequences of the industrial revolution to do exercises 7 and 8 and also to read point 2 about the new class-based society and do exercise 9. During the class Cristina has checked our dialogues for Friday and she has also checked her computer with Angel because she though her computer had a virus send in an false email from Bea Yuste.

In the second industrial revolution new sources of energy appeared like electricity that was possible by the invention of the Dynamo, thanks to the alternator electricity could be transport to make machines work in factories, to illuminate, for trains and tramways, communications... and the Oil that became the main energy source of invents as the diesel and explosion engines.

And the two main fabrics which developed were metalworking industry to produce aluminium and stainless steel and the chemical industry that produced cement, concrete, pesticides, chemical products, dyes, pharmaceutical products...

Telegraph

http://www.yalosabes.com/codigo-morse-samuel-morse-telegrafo.html

But the consequences of this industrial revolution were that mass production led to more access to products, massive exploitation of resources as if they were unlimited, more pollution, immigration from the countryside to the cities, acceleration of the urbanization process and cyclical crisis related to overproduction in industries which remembered me to the one we are suffering now.

Mass production

http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2009/06/jf-ptak-s.html

In this period bourgeoisie became the owners of the industries and enterprises. It was divided in:

High bourgeoisie: bankers, owners of big industries

Middle bourgeoisie: civil servants, merchants...

Petty bourgeoisie: shopkeepers, clerks...

They became the predominant group and their way of life became a model for the rest of the population.

Bourgeoisie

http://www.kalipedia.com/historia-universal/tema/auge-burguesia.html?x=20070717klphisuni_240.Kes&ap=0

And the proletariats which was the majority of the society, they had to work for a salary to survive, their life was hard because they had to work 12-14 hours a day and all the members of the family had to work to survive.

Well I hope my mates had passed their make up exam and you Paqui recovered soon but with caution, you can a worse injury. Bye see you tomorrow.

Proletarian worker of a fabric

http://ibizamelian.com/historias-de-un-pueblo/capitulo-xxxvii-irrupcion-de-los-partidos-de-masas/

What do flutes have to do with the Industrial Revolution?

Thomas Lot´s 18th-century flutes

Source: http://www.williampetit.com/flute-XVIIII-century.htm

Financing is one of the most important problems inventors must face. There is a curious story about James Watt and his steam engine. Watt needed a lot of money to finance his experiments with steam engines and he decided to use a not very legal way to get money: he forged flutes. In the 18th century the best flutes were the ones made by Thomas Lot, a French flute-maker. Lot was someone similar to the Stradivari family in the production of violins and his flutes were famous in all Europe and very expensive. James Watt decided to forge Lot´s flutes. He built normal flutes and put Thomas Lot´s signature on them with a false ink pad. His forged flutes gave him money enough to go on with his experiments and create the most decisive invention of the First Industrial Revolution. Sometimes progress chooses very strange paths to come.

More about James Watt and his counterfeit: 

http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/stories/the_age_of_the_engineer/03.ST.02/?scene=4&tv=true

About Thomas Lot: 

http://www.flutehistory.com/Instrument/Makers/Thomas_Lot/index.php3

PowerPoint presentation for Unit 4

Here you have the PowerPoint presentation to complete your notes about Unit 4. It includes all the contents about the Demographic and the Agricultural Revolution, the two stages of the Industrial Revolution and their consequences, the new class society, the history of the Labour Movement and the political ideologies that appeared with the objective of improving the workers´conditions. Have a look on the presentation. Cristina will use it in the classroom to check the exercises and show you some interesting things. 

Monday, 23th January

Source:

http://americaspadres.blogspot.com/2008/10/vamos-hacer-los-deberes-cmo-ayudar.html

Today, Paqui hasn't come, because she is recovering.

We have been with the teacher of duty, Manuel José, music's teacher. The first thing that he did was pass lis, to see if we were all.

After this, we started to do the homework that Paqui placed on the blog last day. During the hour, while we doing the homework, we have been speaking, but in a normal tone. Some of the students have finished the homework, but the other students, have missed the last one or the last two exercices of the book.

The next day, on Wednesday, we will have class with Cristina Blanco, and we will start the point D) The First Industrial Revolution, and perhaps we will check the exercices of today.

Also some students, have make up exam of the first term.

This is all for today.

Bye, Bye!!

Activities for next week

Industrial Manchester from Kersal Moor, painting by William Wylde (1851)

Source: http://www.uncp.edu/home/rwb/manchester.jpg

Here you have the work you will have to do next week: 

MONDAY, 23RD

- Student in charge of the journal: Laura Bustamante 

- Answer the following questions, which correspond to point 1B2 of the outline of the unit (Development of the First Industrial Revolution): 

1.      Explain what the main energy sources used during the First Industrial Revolution were.

2.      What was the factory system?

3.      What industries developed during the First Industrial Revolution?

4.  Explain the main inventions that allowed the development of textile industry. What were the consequences of these inventions?

5.    Explain the main innovations inventions that allowed the development of iron and steel industry. What were the consequences of these inventions?

6.   Explain the main improvements made in transport. Why were these changes considered to be revolutionary?

- For homework, read section "Development of industrial capitalism" on page 27 and do activities 4,5 and 6 on page 31.

WEDNESDAY, 25TH

Remember that the students who didn´t pass the first term will have to do the make-up exam on this day. 

- Student in charge of the journal: Alejandro Torrillas

- Read point E on page 27 ("The Second Industrial Revolution"), which corresponds to section 1C of the outline of the unit, and do exercises 7 and 8 on page 31.

- Read point 2 on page 28 ("The new class-based society"), which corresponds to section 2 of the outline of the unit, and do exercise 9 on page 31. 

THURSDAY, 26TH

- Student in charge of the journal: Ana Isabel Lucas

- Check with Cristina Blanco the activities you did on Monday and Wednesday. She will use a PowerPoint presentation to show you images and schemes to help you complete the information of the activities. You will have the PowerPoint presentation available on the blog in the following days. 

- For homework, read section 3 A ("The first workers associations") on pages 28 and 29 and do activities 10,11 and 12 on page 31. 

If you have any questions or doubts, please use the blog to ask. I´ll include some extra explanations here and I hope you read them and complete your notes. Cristina Blanco will be with you on Wednesday and Thursday and she will make her best to help you. Please, help her doing your work and having a good behaviour. Have a good week. 

2011-2012 Challenges. Number 16

Sorry for the delay. This week´s questions are related to some of the inventions which contributed to the First Industrial Revolution. 

James Watt´s first steam engine (1776)

Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/C006011/english/sites/steam_james_watt.php3?f=2&b=50&j=1&fl=1&v=2

QUESTION 1

James Watt is considered to be the inventor of the steam engine. In fact, he improved some pre-existing engines, such as Thomas Savery´s water pump or Thomas Newcomen´s atmospheric engine. In 1606, at the beginning of  the 17th century a Navarrese military man, musician and cosmographer patented the first machine to use steam power. He also invented a diving suit, which was tested in the Pisuerga River. Who was this Hispanic inventor?

QUESTION 2

James Watt drew also inspiration from Denis Papin´s inventions. What was the most important contribution of this French inventor?

QUESTION 3

The Spinning Jenny was one of the most important inventions that contributed to the mechanization of textile industry. Who invented it? Why was this machine called Jenny?

Spinning Jenny

Source: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TEXjenny.htm

QUESTION 4

When and where did the factory system appear?

QUESTION 5

What were the Rainhill Trials? What was the realtion of this event with the history of transport?