The evolution of carpentry
A few months ago I was at my local hardware store looking for some door hinges because the day before one of the doors in my house fell off the wall because the hinges were put on poorly, but when I was shopping for some new hinges, out the corner of my eye I saw some random guy pick up a small wooden side table and I thought to my self where did carpentry start. So, I researched what sort of people used it, the technology that had, and the sort of things they made. These are the things I found.
The trade of carpentry has been found to date back as early as 5000bc, the stone age, where cavemen wood (because it’s about wood) have used the skill to craft tools to hunt pray for their next meal or build shelter to survive
I feel the Mine Act of 1842 was very much needed. The conditions in which females and young children had to work were very unhealthy to the mind, body and soul. Little or no education was given and what little was given was long forgotten due to long strenuous work hours. The children and females worked 12 hour shifts. The women interviewed stated they had to lift and move extremely heavy coal wagons underground for lengthy distances, which optimize the risk for various injuries.
The people of the Eastern Woodlands made many tools to help them in their everyday lives. They made spears, weirs, nets, bows and arrows, lances, knives, taps, snares and deadfall for hunting. Most of those tools were made of wood or bark and other forest material. Arrowheads were made from chert, or flint, from sedimentary rocks. They were shaped like isosceles triangles, the smallest arrows were used for hunting birds, the bigger ones were to spear bears or deer. Flint knives were often oval, or teardrop shaped. For fishing they made spears, weirs, and nets. They also made canoes from hollowed-out trees to help with fishing in the lakes and streams. Some other tools they made were axes made of stone to strip bark, clear fields and removing fat from hides. Axes
In Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of this World, many examples of recurring themes, images and symbols occur. In particular, the themes of hybridization and African versus European culture appear multiple times throughout the novel. However, it is not enough to simply look at these themes as trends occurring throughout the novel. Instead, these themes must be analyzed closely in order to provide possible insight into the author’s reasons for incorporating them so frequently in his text. For example, the aforementioned themes both relate closely to one another, and their presence alongside each other may indicate an underlying cultural or historic motive of the author. In essence, in order to truly understand The Kingdom of this World, one
In David Harvey’s 17 Contradiction of Capitalism, he separates the chapters into three categories: Fundamental, moving, and dangerous. Chapter eight: Technology, Work and Human Disposability is categorized into the moving category because technology is constantly changing. Brian Arthur sees “new technologies as the building blocks for the creation of yet newer technologies” (page 95). In this way, over time, technology creates itself, from itself. Harvey argues against Arthur’s theory. Harvey proposed to look at new technologies as they are created mentally before they are made physically. New technological designs replace the old, and are better versions of what we already have. Harvey also argued against Arthurs claims because he did not
It is commonly said that “life’s too short”, but it feels even shorter when one is forced into the next stage of their life pre-maturely. Alejo Carpentier’s journey through time in Like the Night explores not just the cycle of time, but also the cycle of life. Readers are transported from Ancient Greece, to the Spanish conquest of the new world, to the European Empire, to the First World War, and finally back to Ancient Greece. Instead of focusing on battle strategy, the front lines, or shell-shock; Carpentier writes on loss of innocence. While writing on the night before leaving home and the innocence lost in the sudden transition from boyhood to manhood, Carpentier also toys with loss of sexual
At the time when humans were learning to use spears constructed out of sticks and stones and the
Good afternoon, in this assignment I would prefer to be a craftsman during the Colonial Period because it would have supported a need of England. For the most part, there wasn’t a lot of marketing during those times so; I would have a basic sales pitch and maybe a couple of printed documents. In short, my sales pitch would be, “we make our own and sale to our own”. For the part, this is contradicting to what the general purpose of the New world was created for which was that “England had planned the colonies did fall into the expected pattern of providing raw materials for the mother country” (Reich, 2011, p 147). During those times, England only cared about them and not the well being of the colonies, they interfered in all of the colonies
The new stone, or Neolithic Age, marked the beginnings of established society for modern man. Although only a few Paleolithic societies adapted to agriculture from hunting/gathering, this shift led the way for advancement with society, economy, and technology. Man began to raise small herds of sheep and goats and food crops such as wheat and barley were able to be domesticated in mountain foothills. As more of the nomadic bands began to settle as farmers instead of hunter/gatherers, an economic system emerged. Although most of the nomadic societies were still self-sufficient, trading was established from items like stones and shells.
Daniel Defoe's "The Complete English Tradesman", is a good example of his non-fiction writing. The content in the writing is thorough and well presented by Defoe. In the writing, Defoe explains what his opinions on what it means to be an English tradesman. Contrary to some experienced tradesmen, he believes that to be a good tradesman, one needs to acquaint himself with all business in general. According to Defoe, application is of more importance than diligence in business. "Without application nothing in this world goes forward as it should.." Tradesmen of Defoe's day said that there needs to be an aggressive passion in how one handles business, and anger and temper sometimes are necessary. Defoe also challenges this. He believes a "complete tradesman" should not show the least return, signal of disgust, no passions or fire in his temper. A complete tradesman should be soft and smooth, showing little emotion. Basically, Defoe explains how to be by his definition a complete tradesman. "When a tradesman has thus conquered all his passion, and can stand before the storm of impertinence, he is said to be fitted up for the main article, namely, the inside of the counter." The content of the writing is very comprehensive, covering many aspects of being a tradesman.
Conclusion 12 XIII. Bibliography 13 I. Introduction The Custom Woodworking Company (CWC) was founded in 1954 by Ron “Woody” Carpenter. Woody, after an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker, started his own small woodworking business, specializing in furniture manufacturing. Due to the high quality of the craftsmanship, CWC gained a reputation for their high quality and attractively designed furniture.
Before computers there were hands and tools. Before hands and tools there were just hands. Humans have always been designing and throughout human history drafting is what became of it. With new technology in building during the earlier years drafting needed to be changed to accommodate it. Humans have always been able to find better ways to accomplish things. Drafting is no different.
Early man used wooden gears to grind wheat and hammer metals. During the beginning of the Christian era gears were used in many machines such as clocks, waterwheels and windmills. Philon of Byzantium, A...
The idea of mastery can be traced as far back as Aristotle who “felt that artistic training included mastery of a medium and gaining knowledge of one’s environment” (DeHoyas, M., Lopez, A., Garnett, R., Gower, S., Sayle, A., Sreenan, N., Stewart, E., Sweny, S., & Wilcox, K. (2005). This concept of mastery has held true for many centuries in varying forms, with the “Medieval apprenticeship being one of the first examples of art instruction in the Western world” (DeHoyas et al., 2005). Beginning around the 11th century craft guilds played a major role in training apprentices, journeymen, and masters, with the earliest recorded guild dating from 1099 (Madaus & Dwyer, 1999). The craft guilds played an important role in the European economy, and by the 14th century became a powerful hierarchal organization (Madau et al., 1999), which we can still see today in the form of trades and unions. Throughout the history of art, the relationship between apprentice and master held a prominent position in the education of young artisans. The apprentice usually began training at the age of 13, although Leon...
One of the memories of my childhood I deeply cherish is that of my first visit to my father's small scale factory.Exploring the machinery which made my goal more easier and my dad sharing his experiences about the working of machines made me to grew up grossing my interest towards them. That was the time i chose to get into the field of mechanical.As a child, I was always intrigued by the working of complex mechanisms and equipment. I used to spend a lot of time trying to explore and figure out their principle. In school
January 2004 M.A.T.R.I.X Introduction To Archaeology: Origins of Food Production. Electronic document. http://www.indiana.edu/~arch/saa/matrix/ia/ia03_mod_12.html, Accessed October 9, 2010