Industrialization

When  you observe an area around you, you easily realized that almost everything about you was made in a factory. The fact is, that only small minority of things in our houses, offices or other places, are hand-made.

Before only 200 years the situation was absolutely different. For example in the USA the manufacturing was made at home and almost every person, including women, somehow helped to make a final product. People had much more leisure time and apprentices were part of a family. Their master learn them apprentices, but also educated them and were responsible for their moral behavior, too, - this relationship had very close to relationship between a father and a son.

However, after 1815 everything changed. The goods started to be made in bug factories, workers were separate from managers and social gap between the rich and poor enlarged. Workers lost their status in society, freedom organize their work and also their small home manufactories. While apprentices had had before quite a big chance to become masters and have their own small manufactory, after industrialization there was almost no chance.

Everything was about productivity and earnings - maybe the goods was not so high quality, but much more of them were made during the same as a small manufacture made only few of them. And lower quality meant that people would buy new stuff more often.

Someone could think that if nothing more, workers could gather together and have some interesting talk. However there were many an big differences among them - in politics, religion, party loyalty,...

There were many workers who didn't get used to this new manners and long workday. Because the work began at the sound of a bell some of the workers feel like machines that are claimed to not need to sleep. Under these circumstances they finally quit from the work.

After a few years they started to organize and protest and also some progress was made, but it was just a little change.

To sum up, it definitely wasn't an easy way from the first factories of nineteenth century to factories as we know them these days.
                                                                 

                                                                             

Birth of cinema

Have you ever think, while watching a film in a cinema, how did cinemas look before about 100 years ago? And can we even compare cinemas of that time to cinemas nowadays?

Edison was the person who started it all. In 1894 he introduced Kinetoscope. This device was able to play shorts films. People paid 25 cents for 5 short films - one film, one Kinetoscope - when one film ended you could move to another device with another film. However, the way of watching these movies was totally different as we know it now. A person watch a film from the minuscule peepshow dimension of 1 or 2 inches in height - comfortable, isn´t it?

Although these "cinemas" were complicated, Edison refused to develop projector as he knew that exhibitors would have bought only one piece and not at least five like it was with Kinetoscopes - so he wouldn´t have earned so much money.

However then brothers Lumieres came and Armat, Jenkins, Woodville and Orville, too. With the help of the assistant of Edison, Dickson, they developed and introduced perfected projection devices. Suddenly, cinemas and first films (walking people, waves, train - it was mainly about the new projection technology) became much more popular. People could watch them in theatres, parks and other public places. It was a great advantage of exhibitors as they didn't need actors (however, they added something more to the films - something with real people, but it was not so popular then) and much more people could watch a film at the same time.

When Edison saw huge success of new projection devices he claimed them as his own invention. Anyway, hundreds of people could watch a movie and also the image expanded to 6 - 9 feet life-size proportions.

So this is the beginning of cinemas as we know them now. Hope you remember it when you will be sitting and waiting for a good movie.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      




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Bee

Coffee

It´s evening, almost midnight, and I still have some work to do... So I am thinking about a cup of good coffee. And then came the idea of an article about coffee.

In fact I don´t know anyone who has never drink coffee. Basicly, the majority of people I know drink coffee everyday (and not one cup). Could we anyhow imagine our lives without this drink? I don´t think so as it´s the usual solution of problem with tiredness - maybe it doesn´t help, but who cares?

It´s such a routine for many people from all around the world just walk in a café and buy espresso, latte, cappuccino, crema, machiato,... However, have you ever realised that there are also people who can´t afford to pay for a cup of coffee? Although it sad, it is the fact. Because of that I really appreciate the idea of "Suspended coffee", when you pay for your coffee and also for a coffee for somebody else? And who is that "somebody else"? Usually it's a homeless, a refugee, a poor person in general.

It's great when you can make someone's day better just because of a cup of coffee.

If you are a coffee epicure you should try Civet coffee, but prepare 550 $ per kilo - it's the most expensive coffee in the world. However, you live only once. :-)

      

                                                              

Have a nice day!

XOXO

Bee

Italian Renaissance Sculptures

Have you ever been thinking about the reason why the sculptures of horses made during Italian Renaissance have a cannonball under their hoof? Many of you probably say to yourself "It looks good." However, the reason is not aesthetic. It's physical reason!

Statues were made of bronze, so that not very solid material. As a result the stability of statues, in this case horses, wasn't very good. And the trick with cannonball was a great solution of such a problem.

Anyway, later you couldn't find any bronze horse with its hoof on cannonball. It's not because the artist didn't like them anymore. In fact they had learned something wonderful! They didn't need the help from cannonball anymore, because they started to use iron constructions inside their new sculptures as iron is really solid material so also the stability of sculpture is bigger.

You know, maybe we are sometimes trying to find much more profundity in the piece of art than there really is...


    

Let´s start!

Hi Guys!

Welcome on my brand new blog Such a World.

I should say now a few words about the blog or the main theme of articles... Frankly, I can´t answer the question as I haven´t decided yet. However, I know that i don´t want to focus only on one thing or area. I want to write about many things, things that make me happy, things that make me sad, things that make me angry and so on. Anyway, I want to write about things I am interested in (that´s the right formulation).

So that´s probably all for the beginning. I would be happy if you contact me with questions or anything - my e-mail address is suchaworld.bee@gmail.com.

I am gonna take my cuppa and write a profound article.



Have a nice day!
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Bee