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Sir Rich Arkwright and the Water Frame Invention
Sir Rich Arkwright was born on December 23, 1732 at Preston in the
county of Lancaster. His first profession was a barber in Bolron-le-moors
in 1760. Soon afterward he traveled throught the country buying human hair.
At that time he had a valuable chemical secret for dying the hair to make
wigs out of. Arkwright's hair was commented to be the finest hair in the
country.
In 1761, Richard Arkwright married Margaret Biggins, and this marriage
brought him to an aquaitance with Thomas Highs. Highs was probably one of
the most important people Arkwright was to ever meet. He was the inventor
of the spinning jenny and the water frame. Highs was behind the mechanical
production of both of these machines, however he could now market his
product due to lack of funding and ill communication skills. This is where
Richard Arkwright comes in. Arkwright was highly skilled in dealing with
business and other social aspects.
Arkwright sought to obtain the water frame by less than friendly means.
He contacted John Kay, a former employee of Highs', to "turn brass" for him.
This was all part of a clever plot to get Kay to reveal the design of
Highs' water frame. Eventually, Arkwright succeded and Kay cunstructed a
replica of the water frame, or otherwise known as throstle.
Arkwright showed off the model to several people to seek financial aid.
He eventually prevailed on Mr. Smalley to fund the project.
In April of 1768 he hired Kay and took him along with him to Nottingham
where he built a factory turned by horses. On July 3, 1769, he obtained a
patent for "spinning by rollers." By doing this, he solidified his hold
over the water frame preventing Highs from ever gaining the immense profits
made by the water frame.
In 1771, Arkwright built another factory in Cromford. The power for
this factory was supplied by a water wheel instead of horses. During this
time many improvements were made to shorten the process of spinning wool.
Arkwright kept an eye on these improvements and eventually made a machine
combining many of them into a series. These "engines," as he called them,
were enough to take up another pattent on December 16, 1775. Improvements
specified in the pattent were not invented by Arkwright but were actually
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In 1909, Morgan opened a tailoring shop, selling coats, suits and dresses. While working in this shop he came upon a discovery which brought about his first invention. He noticed that the needle of a sewing machine moved with such a high speed that often its friction would scorch the thread of woolen materials. He then set out to develop a liquid that would be a useful polish to the needle, reducing friction. Once, when his wife called him to dinner, he wiped the liquid from his hands onto a piece of pony-fur cloth. When he returned to his workshop, he saw that the fibers on the cloth were now standing straight. He conceived that the fluid had actually straightened the fibers. In order to confirm his theory, he decided to apply some of the fluid to the hair of a neighbor's dog. The fluid straightened the dog's hair so much, that the neighbor, not recognizing his own pet, chased the animal away. Morgan then decided try the fluid on himself, trying small portions of his hair at first, and eventually his entire head. He was successful and had invented the first human-hair straightener. This invention has helped a lot commercially. A lot of today’s media features people with straightened hair. This might not be possible if Garrett Morgan hadn’t made the contributions he did. He marketed the product under the name the G. A. Morgan Hair Refining Cream and sold by his G. A. Morgan Refining Company, which became a very successful business.
The Erie Canal was a man made water way that stretched to be three hundred sixty three miles long. The canal started construction in1817, and took nine years to completely finish the building process. People during this time had many positive, and negative opinions about the fact that this expensive canal was being built. The idea of the Erie Canal originates with Jesse Hawley, the idea was to connect the great lakes to the Atlantic ocean making an easy path to the west from the east without having to pass Niagara Falls. The canal was mostly built by Irish immigrants who were hated, or disliked, by most people. People had ideas and predictions about what would come of this canal. Let's just see which of the predictions were more accurate to
For example, during the Renaissance, well-born European women plucked out hairs, one by one, from their natural hairline all the way back to the crowns of their heads, to give them the high rounded foreheads thought to be beautiful at the time. Those who didn't want to resort to plucking used poultices of vinegar mixed with cat dung or quick-lime. The latter often removed some of the skin as well as the hair.
Water travel assisted heavily with transportation of goods and people from the American north-east to the west, which would eventually create a separation from the south.
In order to justify keeping an entire race of people enslaved, slaveholders claimed that blacks were inferior to whites, placing them on the same level as livestock and other animals. “There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to the same narrow examination” (73). The fact is, whites are not naturally superior over blacks. Therefore, slaveholders used a variety of contrived strategies to make their case that blacks were inherently inferior to whites. To...
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...on. Treatments should be applied to the hair as a protector before the chemicals are added because they can apply serious damage to the healthy hair. If the hair isn’t treated properly with several chemicals being added such as relaxers or dye, the hair can easily become dry, brittle, and create many split ends throughout your hair even rising up to the roots. As I was doing my research paper I did experience some difficulties because I didn’t stick with one topic in the cosmetology field like hairstyling, coloring hair, nails, and even trimming of the hair so that caused me to even research harder, but it’s nothing wrong with challenging yourself at times.
In conclusion, the question of how hair texture among an ethnicity is determined has yet to be answered. However, new developments such as the evidence that all humans have the same single origin in Africa and mutations in the P2RY5 gene can determine the hair texture of a human, have shown that researchers are quite close in determining the hair texture of an ethnicity. These developments have the possibility of leading to new hair removal and hair growth treatments. The future looks bright for hair research and hopefully in the next 20-50 years the question is answered.
".... the goal of grooming the hair had morphed from the elaborate and symbolic designs of Africa into an imitation of White styles adapted to Black kinks and curls...
Cosmetology has been around since the ancient times and the Egyptians. It was the Egyptian women who gave a lot of importance to hair care, nails, makeup, and overall beauty. The natural look changed the reverted look to the cosmetic look. As years roll by, cosmetology and the business of looking good began to pick up a huge amount of customers. Getting hair curled, ironed, or wavy is very popular now. A lot of women today all over the world want to look like their favorite star. It was that need and craze to look good, which made cosmetology successful as it is today. Shekinah Jo Anderson is a professional hair stylist with just a few years of professional experience. She has already struck celebrity status, and is a rising star in the beauty industry. Shekinah is very successful because she mastered, advanced and contemporary techniques in cosmetology at the Empire Beauty School in Atlanta.
Through out the 1920’s many inventions were created that altered human civilization. Transportation was successfully mastered. Radio communication was becoming more common and medicine was saving more and more lives every day.
In early America, slaves were dehumanized by their masters for various reasons. These reasons were to quell a fear of revolt, to minimize the chance of escape, and to have a better profit from the slaves’ labor (Wilson-Gonzalez “12 Mar. 2015.”). These reasons were important because the master had paid a price to acquire his slave and the master would want to see his investment grow. Incidentally, Nat Turner’s rebellion sparked a change in the south,
Hair weaving dates back as far as Ancient Egypt and throughout history. Egyptians adored a good hair weave. It was considered a form of self-expression and common practice for them to trim their hair and create dazzling wig out of it. The men on occasion wore more dashing styles of wigs than the women. Women more so used weaving methods because of their diminishing hair. This practice is still used today for men and women who suffer from different types of hair loss.