Panama Canal

Hello my good People,  :)
Okay, so on Friday I traveled to the time of 1881 were I talked to Ferdinand de Lesseps, leader of the French men who started the construction. Also John Stevens and American who took over him after he died. These are dot pointed facts sentences about the construction of the Panama Canal.

• Joined Africa and Europe to pass through goods
• Achieved by a French man F. Lesseps
• 8,000 miles long, from Atlantic - Pacific by boat
• $6,000,000 to prepare a canal company
• Native people were used to escavate trees and rocks by hand and tools
• A mountain range blocked the path, therefore 120,000,000 tones of dirt had to be moved
• A tropical disease was killing of workers, with no cure! 6,000 died in the first 5 years
• Rain was feared for the destruction of plans, mountain slides, harder to work
• Taking 15 years longer than first thought, 350 die every month, the killer had been identified, the grave diggers were getting rich
• It is 1885 ad only 10% was done, The two men resigned from the company and it went bankrupt in 1889
• Lesseps died, and over 20,000 men were perished,  17 years elapsed before another man took over
• John Stevens (American) became chief engineer and inspected the french ruins, wanted to build it so US Navy could dominate the seas
• He used better machinery to put rock/dirt onto trains and conveyor belts
• He used a rock plow, to reduce rock slides and moved more in a day than the French would in a month.
• A doctor was transported to the hospital from America and called the disease yellow fever, he found that the culprit was the mosquito and the hospital was acting like an incubator for yellow disease
• Mosquito's were fumigated, After 6 months Gorgas the Doctor told everybody that the disease was gone.
• The canal was finished by John Stevens in 1914, It took the Americans 20+ years to finish the Canal

I hope you all gathered a thought to how the graetest canal was built all those years ago :)
Taylah xo

Hello everyone, well this one goes to the ladies back home, This post is about women in factories!! So enjoy

In United Kingdom, the lives of women changed drastically during the Industrial Revolution. Women, often left the family home for the first time to work in factories or mills. Working class women became wage earners often living in communal housing. This led to an  social issue between women as wealthy women did not leave the home to make a living. Before these years of the revolution, all women worked in the home.
Some women continued to work at home doing piece work. Piece work was products assembled in the home and given to a manufacturer who didn't want to spend the money on organizing their labour force under one roof. Piece work was paid poorly but kept overhead low for greedy manufacturers. Women contributed to work, by sewing shirts and other clothes, to their almost endless list of domestic chores. All this work made it very difficult for most women to get a formal education. So if you stay at home mums think you are poorly paid or don't like the work, women here hardly got paid, stayed at home and worked, or if they worked in a factory they were punished for not doing enough work.

Hope this gave you all and idea to how women were treated and expected of here..

Taylah xo :)

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Child Workers

Hey, well I don't feel very good about today, I witnessed child labor in the British factories. :(


Street children were used to clean machines whilst they were still working. Who does this? I talked to a factory doctor to see what cases of near death occurred. "scraps, skin and muscles stripped to the bone, their hands were caught in the machinery, minor cases, a finger or two lost." And this is children we are talking about. Although, the children didn't just have scraps and etc from machinery, the owner punished them.... YES punished them with whips, I suppose these two cause are pretty cruel. Well these working children only had one meal a day, and that was at dinner. Oat cake was that one dinner. They were hungry so had to eat this awful tasting cake. They never got to see their parents whilst they were working or when they were injured. From 4am to 8pm these children worked, and guess what? They did this for free! So here it is my new post that is very cruel, I'm sure all you guys back home would understand this pain.

XO Taylah :)
Good-Day!

Alexander Graham Bell

Hi ya'll, I have been seeing the greatness of Inventors today, so here is what I have reported...

The Industrial Revolution that occurred in the 19th Century was of great importance to the economic future of Great Britain & the united States. Three industrial developments led the way to industrializing these regions.
a) Transportation was expanded
b) electricity was effectively harnessed
c) Improvement were made to industrial process


I have researched Alexander Graham Bell, he is the one who invented the telephone, which in space is now the piece of glass we call a mobile. He was born on the 3 March 1847 in Edinburgh Scotland and died on the 2 August 1922 in Nova Scotia, Canada. He invented the telephone in the 1870's, Although he did not do it all by himself. He and Elisha Gray, battled legal rights for the telephone and won. Alexander was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, Scotland. Although he left at the age of 15. It took about 9 years to have the telephone in working condition and another year to prove to people it actually works, from there it took of, changing every time. And of course this invention is still being used today, but completely different, you guys know what I mean (ha ha). From big, bulky cords to slim pieces of touchable glass and even homographs. So remember this man, the real brains behind our communication.


Love ya's,
Taylah ox :)

Industrial Inventions

Hello my Space Friends,
I have found a few interesting inventions found in the industrial revolution, One is the Spinning Jenny, which is my favorite..
The first big industry was cotton textile factories, though other kinds of factories developed as well machines had been used some by workers who did piece work at home with spinning wheels and hand looms.  What brought the workers together into a factory was the invention of machines for spinning that could spin more than one thread at a time and then the application of water power first to spinning and then to weaving James Hargreaves or Spinning Jenny , invented 1764-1770. You've probably already figured, but this machine spun thread and yarns.

Another is the Newcomen Engine (about 1712) filled a cylinder with steam and then condensed it to draw the piston down.  1/2% efficient, but widely used to pump water out of coal mines. Although, Watt Engine (1774) had had a separate condenser, making the engine much more efficient, James Watt later added, sun and planet gear converted reciprocating, into rotary motion to power machines automatic control mechanism double-acting engine made for much smoother power. I hope you get the English language they use to speak (ha ha) 

Well that's all for now, Love and Leave you :)

Taylah <3

WOW, what a day! I have just watched the Brooklyn bridge finish being built!
Starting on the 3rd of January 1870 to now the 24th of May 1883. That means the bridge took around 13 years to build! Along the construction there were many deaths and sicknesses from the compressed air (the Benz) and long hard hours, or even just silly mistakes. John Augustus Robeling, a German immigrant, designed the Brooklyn bridge. Although he crushed his foot against a pilling, had it amputated, then died of tetanus, gave his son Washington Robeling the job of charge. Washington suffered from the Benz numerous times and did a lot of damage to his body. Washington was sent to his family home, and was cared for all the time, whilst the construction of the bridge went on. There was much debate to whether Washington would still role as head designer. His mother Emily Warren Robeling, spoke amongst Washington's negative men and won, making Washington still in-charge. The first man swung across the bridge on May 19th 1885.

That's all for today, Bye :)
Taylah xo

The Industrial Revolution

Hey there Spacies, My name is Taylah and I have been teleported to the late 1750's and in the Industrial Revolution Time Period. :)


So this is my new blog, and my first question is.. What is the Industrial Revolution?
So here it is the answer to my question...
The Industrial Revolution was a period from 1750 to 1850 where changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times. It began in the United Kingdom, then subsequently spread throughout Western Europe, North America, Japan, and eventually the rest of the world.
I am finally here and hope all my friends at school read this :)