 | | Agriculture Technology Development in 20th Century | | by balisunset, Sep 16, 2008 | | The twentieth century brought an enormous amount of technology developed for and applied to agriculture. These developments may be examined by highlighting the patterns of technology in three areas—infrastructure, public sector, and commercial factory—as if they were seen in cross section. The patterns are based on combined material and institutional forces that shaped technology. | | Comments(2) Liked It: 2 |
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 | | A Guide on Adhesive Types | | by balisunset, Sep 16, 2008 | | Adhesives have been used for about six millennia, but it was only from the first decade of the twentieth century that any significant development took place, with the introduction of synthetic materials to augment earlier natural materials. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Absorbent Materials | | by balisunset, Sep 15, 2008 | | For thousands of years, plant-derived materials have served as the primary ingredient of absorbent materials. Jute, flax, silk, hemp, potatoes, and primarily cotton, have been employed since pre-Roman times. | | Comments(1) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850) | | by balisunset, Sep 15, 2008 | | Negotiated and signed in Washington, D.C. by American Secretary of State John Clayton and the British Minister to the United States, Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, the treaty was a compromise between competing Anglo-American imperial ambitions in Central America. Both powers refused exclusive control over any transisthmian interoceanic canal project, but agreed to cooperate in its development and ensure its neutrality, guaranteeing to neither fortify nor exercise dominion over the route. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Louisiana Hurricane (1893) | | by balisunset, Sep 15, 2008 | | On the morning of October 2, 1893, Hurricane Chenier Caminanda, with winds peaking at a speed of 135 mph, struck the area southeast of present-day New Orleans. The hurricane then curved eastward across southeast Louisiana and turned northward over Alabama. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | China Before World War I | | by balisunset, Sep 15, 2008 | | For 2,200 years, China was an extraordinarily durable imperial state. Yet, by 1557, when Portugal took possession of Macao, it became an object of European interest. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | A Short Biography of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) | | by balisunset, Sep 14, 2008 | | Twice prime minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill is remembered for his great achievement during World War II, especially during the period between the fall of France in June 1940 and the entry into the war of the United States in December 1941, when Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Viscount Robert Stewart Castlereagh (1769–1823) | | by balisunset, Sep 14, 2008 | | An Anglo-Irish politician and British Foreign Secretary, Castlereagh, a courtesy title he assumed in 1796 owing to his father’s Irish marquisate, was initially a Whig, but the events of the French Revolution drove him to the Tories. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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