Fred Hatch (1873)
Fred Hatch was an American agricultural inventor. It's hard to picture the farmscape without a silo or some type of farmyard, an old run down barn and especially a tower silo. When you think of barns you also should think of silos. The towering, vertical silos we imagine today, especially here located in the Midwest, are a true American innovation and go hand in hand with barns. Farm grain wasn't always stored in silos; it was stored in pits where farmers had to dig out which caused excess spoil in many instances. In 1873, silos were nonexistent.
Influenced by grain storage pits and corn cellars of Native Americans, the first known tower wooden silo was constructed in 1873 by Fred Hatch who lived in McHenry County, Illinois. Fred Hatch just graduated from The Illinois Industrial University now known as The University of Illinois. At that time, there were few textbooks on agriculture. The only faculty member in the agriculture department at the university was Professor Willard Flagg Bliss who improvised by translating foreign papers and other forums on similar topics. From many of these sessions, Fred learned the formation of the silage.
When he returned after college, Hatch went back to his father's dairy farm in Spring Grove in 1873. As a member of the Illinois second
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They were expensive to build and often took months to finish building and weren't even that tall. Even though these had interior walls two to three feet thick, they still could not resist the pressure of the kept silage. Even though coated inside with cement the silos began cracking, which allowed air to enter and would eventually ruin the silage. These cracks also allowed water to penetrate and when it froze it had created more cracks. The corners of square silos also created many issues so a Professor King who worked at the Experimental College began promoting the use of round
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Through the period of 1865-1900, America’s agriculture underwent a series of changes .Changes that were a product of influential role that technology, government policy and economic conditions played. To extend on this idea, changes included the increase on exported goods, do the availability of products as well as the improved traveling system of rail roads. In the primate stages of these developing changes, farmers were able to benefit from the product, yet as time passed by, dissatisfaction grew within them. They no longer benefited from the changes (economy went bad), and therefore they no longer supported railroads. Moreover they were discontented with the approach that the government had taken towards the situation.
Name of serial killer: My serial killer is named Richard Chase. He was also known as the “Vampire of Sacramento” or the “Dracula Killer”.
On January 12 1998 in Georgia, Deputy Kyle Dinkheller made a traffic stop for speeding car driving at 98 mphs. Placed inside his car was a dashboard camera, the incident was all captured. The video showed Brannan purposely provoking the deputy while Dinkheller continued to get him to “calm down” and arrest him. After 30 seconds of taunting Brannan puts his hands in his walking while backing towards his vehicle. At that point Dinkheller drew his weapon while Brannan once again started taunting Dinkheller saying, “Here I am, shoot
Don Bell had the west in his eyes and heart. He was twelve when he entered his first rodeo contest. Until 1943 he competed in rough stock events, such as calf roping, team roping, steer wrestling, and saddle bronc, and appeared at such venues as Soldier Field in Chicago and the Boston Gardens. Don was part of the Clyde Miller Wild West Show, the Bill King Rodeo Co., and Rufus Rollins’ Wild West Show. In the Western movie Shane, he rode a bucking horse in a muddy street scene. Don was an original Gold Card-holding member of the Cowboy Turtle Association, the first professional rodeo association, and an honorary cardholder of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. The rodeo gear he wore is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute.
In June of 1984, Richard Ramirez began his famous killing spree. His strategies on how he would kill his victims seem to be unorthodox and unorganized, take his first victim for example. Seventy-nine year old Jennie Vincow was asleep on her bed inside her apartment on Chapman Street in Los Angeles, California, when Richard Ramirez who unintentionally broke into the wrong apartment, was high off coke and angry because of the poverty based apartment he broke into, plowed his six-inch hunting knife into Jennie’s chest. After waking up screaming, she tried defending herself but due to his raging strength it was nearly impossible to do that, Ramirez then covered her mouth as he cut her throat and stabbed her three more times in the chest and once in vaginal area. (Phillip Carlo, The Night Stalker, 1996)
The principle behind the Gothic style was to reach greater interior heights. However, “medieval churches had solid stone vaults (the structure that supports the ceiling or roof). These were extremely heavy structures and tended to push the walls outward, which could lead to the collapse of the building. In turn, walls had to be heavy and thick enough to bear the weight of the stone vaults,” (“Gothic Art and Architecture”). Thus, the taller buildings such a churches would be more expensive to build and look bulky and ungainly, which doesn’t quite fit the style the clergy were aiming for. In response to this problem, master masons of the medieval period developed the iconic ribbed vault. This newly developed ribbed vault had several interesting characteristics. A ribbed vault was the conjunction of two or more barrel vaults. The vault itself was a collection of stone ribs traversing the vaulted ceiling and transporting the weight onto the ribs themselves. Also, instead of the traditional round arches, pointed arches were used. This gave the ceiling of Gothic buildings a light and more versatile look (Martindale). Not only did these ribbed vaults bring a (somewhat) unique look to cathedrals, they also served an incredibly vital part in the architectural design of Gothic structures. The Gothic structures’ “new arrangement significantly reduced the weight (and thus the outward thrust) of the ceiling vault,” which reduced the constant danger of collapse and cracking for the thick Romanesque walls when they tried to reach taller heights (“Gothic Architecture”). The ribs also “transmitted [weight] along a distinct stone rib, rather than along a continuous wall edge, and could be channeled from the rib to other supports, such as vertical piers or flying buttresses, which eliminated the need for solid, thick walls,” (“Gothic
Lee De Forest was born Aug. 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. De Forest was the son of a Congregational minister. His father moved the family to Alabama and there assumed the presidency of the nearly bankrupt Talladega College for Negroes. Excluded by citizens of the white community who resented his father's efforts to educate blacks, Lee and his brother and sister made friends from among the black children of the town and spent a happy although sternly disciplined childhood in this rural community. (Kraeuter, 74). As a child he was fascinated with machinery and was often excited when hearing of the many technological advances during the late 19th century. He began tinkering and inventing things even in high school, often trying to build things that he could sell for money. By the age of 13 he was an enthusiastic inventor of mechanical gadgets such as a miniature blast furnace and locomotive, and a working silverplating apparatus. (A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries).
In 1882, Henry finished his apprenticeship and was a machinist. Westinghouse hired Henry to demonstrate and operate their steam engines on nearby farms during the summers. During the winters, Henry would stay on his father’s farm, working on building a lighter steam engine. During this time, Henry met Clara Bryant. When t...
“The chief of police got my brother killed. He don’t care. He shows no emotion at all.” – Stevante Clark. On the evening of March 18th 2018 in Sacramento, California, a 22 year-old unarmed African American man Stephon Clark, who was a loving father of two sons was shot and killed in his own backyard by two Sacramento Police officers, one black and one white. Which reignited the national debate on race and policing in the United States.
Furthermore, they didn’t have enough timber to build a centering, so Brunelleschi ended up building the dome without scaffolding in such a way that it supported itself as the work advanced. It was a brilliant, creative, and expensive solution. The primary issue to overcome was simply technical: there was no known lifting instruments at the time equipped for raising and moving the tremendously heavy materials he needed to work with, including sandstone bars, so distant from the ground. He developed a three-speed lift with an unpredictable arrangement of riggings, pulleys, screws, and driveshafts fueled by a solitary burden of bulls turning a wooden tiller and the Castello, a 65-foot-tall crane with a progression of stabilizers and hand screws to move stacks along the side once they'd been raised to the correct
Gordon Parks was a photographer and humanitarian with a passion for documenting poverty, and civil rights in the second half of the 20th century. His signature style continues to be celebrated as one of the most iconic of the time.
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B.F. Skinner was born of a father who was a lawyer who worked for the local railroad and a stay at home mother in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. Skinner’s parents were Presbyterians and were of the middle working class background. Skinner went to the local school in town where both of his parents attended as children themselves. Skinner read for pleasure as a student because he described his father as “a sucker for book salesman.” Many have spoken with Skinner about his childhood, which he describes as “a happy one.” Skinner labeled his upbringing and home life as “warm and stable.” During Skinner’s youth, he also showed a high interest in building things. He built wagons, model airplanes, and other makeshift items, which exemplified his mechanical intellect.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born in a small town called Susquehanna, Pennsylvania on March 20, 1904. His dad was a lawyer and his mom was a house wife. Skinner was the typical boy, he enjoyed playing outside and to build things. He created many inventions as a kid. He and a friend made a cabin in the woods and Skinner created a cart with backwards steering. When working for a shoe store he thought of and invention that helped the broom pick up dust. Skinner also invented a flotation system for a door to door business that would sell berries. The flotation system separated the ripe berries from the bad. Skinner also enjoyed school very much. He even dedicated a book later in life to his English teacher Miss Graves. Skinner did not have a tragic childhood it was fairly easy. The only tragedy was that younger brother died at sixteen from a cerebral aneurysm.