20th Century Blog

WRIGHT BROTHERS

The Wright Brothers were two of seven siblings. Orville and Wilbur were their names. Orville was always in mischief, and he got expelled in elementary school. Orville and Wilbur were very close to each other; they were only four years apart. They loved playing with toys. Their favorite was a helicopter. The brothers played with that toy until it broke. From playing with the helicopter, it gave them inspiration to build their own helicopter.
They are mainly known for building the first airplane. It took the brothers a long time to get it down. The brothers got their experience from working in a shop building bikes and motors. The two brothers always worked together with everything. They also did not get their high school diplomas. Many believe that the Wright brothers were the best inventors. That is amazing especially since they did not graduate from high school.
The brothers studied many birds to help them build their plane. The brothers made plenty of planes. It took them awhile to get to the perfect plane. The two young men had come up wit a plan to succeed and that was to make a aircraft and get it off the ground. The brothers tried more then a hundred times to get an aircraft up and running but they had many failures, but that is just the way it was. Once they fixed everything there was a happy ending. That was the spark for new and more aircrafts in the U.S and all over the world.

The Wright Brothers are two of seven siblings. Orville and Wilbur were their names. Orville was always in mischief, and he got expelled in elementary school. Orville and Wilbur were very close to each other, they were only for years apart. They loved playing with toys there favorite was a helicopter. The brothers played with that toy Intel it broke. From playing with the helicopter gave them inspiration to build there own helicopter.
They were mainly known for building the first air plane. It took the brothers along time to get it down. The brothers got there experience from working in a shop building bikes in motors. The two brothers always worked together with every thing. They also did not get there high school diploma.
The brothers studied many birds to help them build this plane. The brothers made plenty of planes. It took them awhile to get down the perfect plane. The Wright brothers go down as the best inventors. The funny thing about it is that neither of them did not graduate.

The model T was found by Henry Ford in 1908 in the Ford Motor Company. The model T was made for people who couldn’t afford a car and it was cheap. This car was made in Detroit Michigan. The Ford Motor Company had one of the assembly lines to make cars. The Model T was the first automobile mass produced on assembly lines with completely interchangeable parts, marketed to the middle class. The needed factory worker knowledge and skills were reduced to one of 84 areas.

The Ford Model T was the first automobile built by various countries simultaneously since they were being produced in Walkersville, Canada and in Manchester, England starting in 1911 and were later assembled in Germany, Argentina, France, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, and Japan. Henry Ford had many different types of model of cars like A, N, S but the model T was one of the greatest one ever made. Since the Model T we have many different great cars from Ford like Ford Fusion and the Mustang. I think without Henry Ford making the Model T, we wouldn’t have so great cars in this world to day.

I am a Chinese immigrant that has just reached Angel Island and I'm getting processed into the U.S system to be able to live in the United States. I have come a long way from overseas by myself to make my life better or to just see what comes my way. Many of my people haven’t made it to the U.S because of sickness and other problem that the Americans don’t want coming into the states. My life can get better if I try or my life can get even worse then it was when I was shipped to Angel Island. When I first walked off the ship there were thousands and thousands I mean it was amazing to see how many different races that were surrounding me.
Now that I have been checked and have been named a immigrant that is able to live in the U.S now I can look for a job so that I can provide for me self to survive on my own like my mother and father told me before they were shipped back to China. Life by myself is a hard task and I think to myself sometimes that I will never make it. As the days go by slowly and lonely I start to get stronger and smarter with what I have to do to live and keep food in my belly and some warm clothes on my body. I keep telling myself things will get better but I still feel the same way when I got off the Roget ship that shipped me to the U.S.

Coney Island was the first amusement park in American. It was in Brooklyn, New York. It was on an island. They had the first roller coaster. Almost all modern roller coaster are made of steel. Coney Island was used for entertainment.
The first roller coaster was made of wood and the track was six hundred feet long. It was built in 1884. It went up 50 feet high. It was 5 cents to ride it. They made $600 per a day.
Coney Island wasn’t just a theme park. Here is a listing of some of the other things on Coney Island. There were some bars in the middle of the woods where you could buy liquor. There were also hotels. In fact there were 2 of them. Thatis some of the stuff that made up Coney Island.

Get your popcorn and soda and enjoy the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus. Barnum and Bailey did not start out in the circus business together. Bailey started and teamed with James E, and Barnum worked with Dan Castello and William Cameron Coup. Barnum joined with them because Dan and William already created a circus. Bailey’s circus was soon Barnum’s chief competitor.

Cooper and Bailey merge’s with Barnum, and that’s how the brothers got started. In 1881-1882 the shows were combined and it was a great success. Then a tragedy happened that no one would ever expect, Barnum died in 1891 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Since his brother’s death Bailey went on doing the European tour that stared in December 27, 1897 and ended in 1902. The European tour gave the Ringling Brothers the opportunity to move their show to the Midwest through the eastern seaboard.

On July 6, 1944 one of the worst fire disasters occurred in Hartford, Connecticut. 7,500-8,700 people were attending the Ringling brothers when the fire broke out. The fire took place under a canvas. 100 people were killed in the horrible fire. Till this day the dead remain were unidentified even with using DNA techniques. The tent that the Ringling Brothers performed in had not been fireproofed.

The Brooklyn Bridge was finished in 1883. It was built for
the people to get to the island faster. It was needed, it made transportation a lot easer for the people and their goods. Their started
to billed the Brooklyn Bridge in 1870 it took 13 year to billed.
Here are some faces of the bridge, distance of roadbed above water - 135 feet, Height of Towers above high water- 276½ feet (JSG). Height of Towers above roadway - 159 feet (JSG). They used 3600 miles of steel cables. Dead weight of deck and suspenders - 13,240 kips - 3,410 kips per cable.