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Tag Archives: 1906
Building Panama Canal in 1906
This image was captured in 1906. It shows the workers were building the Panama Canal which was launched by the United States in the second effort. It is an important picture because over 5000 deaths occurred in order to open the canal; and, the Panama Canal, which joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, became a main conduit for the international trade of the United States at that time period.
Posted in 1900-1916, Economic History, June 29 assignment
Tagged 1906, international trade, panama canal
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Radio Broadcast in 1906
This imge is from http://www.radiocom.net/Fessenden/
President George W. Bush celabrated 100years anniversary of the first radio station in Massachusetts. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden got this honor due to his invention of the world’s first radio broad cast. He worked for Thomas Edison in his New Jersey laboratory as a canadian engineer, and he tried to produce the “wireless telegraph” to carry human voice through the air. The first extended broadcast of human voice was transmitted on December 24, 1906 in Brant Rock in Massachusetts. As President mentioned about how the radio station have done the important role in American society, Fessenden had opened the technological improvement as much as the development in people’s standard of living.
Posted in 1900-1916, Cultural History, Social History
Tagged 1906, Fessenden, invention, Radio
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The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
During the progressive era, Upton Sinclair’s novel had a tremendous impact on history. However, Foner briefly speaks of Sinclair in his book. Sinclair was a journalist for the muckrakers, in which the group of reporters investigate various social issues and publish their findings for the public.
Sinclair, in an effort to discover the issues of the meat packing industry, disguises himself as a worker. He later publishes his findings in “The Jungle,” in which he shows the various dangers of working in the meat packing factory. Some of the dangers people faced in working in the meat industry was the possibility of losing part of their hand eventually. For instance, losing your thumb from cutting meat products for an extended period of time or receiving various cut wounds were various types of common injury. Other dangers include contracting a disease from working in dirty/poorly circulated rooms and mutilations of the hand from various types of contact with toxic chemicals.
Other violations of the meat packing industry include food preparations, in which workers process food to cover up the smell of rotting food and mixing various waste parts of an animal. Due to Sinclair’s book, it has publicized the horrors and violations of working in the meat packing industry. This is important because is creates an awareness of the working conditions, which soon lead to laws regulating work conditions, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
The link below is an excerpt from the book “The Jungle.”
http://college.cengage.com/history/us/resources/students/primary/meat.htm
Below is a video giving a better idea of the working conditions Sinclair encountered at his time.
Posted in 1900-1916, June 28 assignment
Tagged 1906, drug act, journalist, meat packing industry, muckrakers, pure food act, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, working conditions
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