Thursday, November 20, 2014

How Tycoons became rich?

The most important aspect of Carnegie's life is when he became the wealthiest in the 19 century. His aspect is important because he went from poor to rich. He did this by buying railroads and other company's that help him sell steel. Then when started becoming rich he donated to charities and became a American model of success.
A tycoon is a wealthy, powerful person in a business or industry. These people got rich by having a mind for business. They would look for a way to make products better and cheaper, so they would try to get rid of their competition through illegal means.
A strategie tycoons would use was to attempt to control as much of the business as possible through vertical integration.
Robber barons is when the business owners finish their vertical integration they would rise pieces of their product. Also they would reduce pay for all works.
Social Darwinism is when people thought being rich was a sign of god's favor and being poor was a sign of being lazy. Rich men like this social Darwinism philosophy because they saw it as survival of the fittest and natural selection.
Andrew Carnegie the model for American success in the
19 century. 
Monopoly is a game they involves tycoons.
Taking to own everything.

Passive house poem

Tech and Passive House
Tech and passivity houses 
Should change the world in a good way
A good way is being green 
To be passive you need to be in your home sweet home
Turn your plants greener then before and take care of every single one
You can be with our generation so add solar panels
use them to save energy so go

use rise over run.

Monday, November 10, 2014

Summary of Technology & Construction during the Industrial Revolution& now

In the reading How science and Life Interacted During the American Industrial Revolution compiled by Danny Blas, explains how technology change in the cities and how we lived in the United States because of technology they were able to expand building upward and outward. Since technology started advancing it was helpful to the U.S. by giving them them their needs like transportion and space.
Technology also change how people moved around. Americans started started using trolley cars. The trolley cars would travel from neighborhoods to downtown office and to departments stores. Thanks to the trolley cars it was easier for the Americans to move around.
In the article The Passive House: Sealed For Freshness by Sandy Keenan, she explains the difference between a passive house and a traditional house. She describes a passive house as a environmentally responsible house without the traditional housing heating and air conditioning system. The passive house is a low energy building.
An arguments against passive houses are that it's expensive. Passive housing would cost $300,000-$500,000 average. Also it would take a decade or more for the energy saving. 
Another thing technology change was the way we read and learned. By inventing newspaper printing it was easier and cheaper for people to know what was happening. Also it was affordable for everyone to get.
Technology has change through out the time making life easier for everyone. It change how Americans lived in the past by making better building, easier transportion, and a easier way to live. Technology also change how we live today by making easier transportion, inventing new building, building new machines to make materials we need and more.