Thursday, January 16, 2014

Electronic Field Trip (Social Studies)

How people in the old days used math and technology...


18 notes:

  • The middle of a wheel is called the hub
  • In the old days their calendar was only 360 degrees because the stars circled around polaris 1 degree each day
  • Measurement was commonly in use back then, for cooking, carpentry, medicine and more
  • James Anderson was a successful blacksmith
  • One shilling = 12 pennies
  • The continental army relied on tradespeople, because they didn't have the resources, tradespeople brought things from different areas which might have better things
  • The law in Virginia stated that any man over sixteen had to own a cartridge box, bayonet, gun, and other physical defensive and battle items
  • The year after the french started using the metric unit system the US started disliking them
  •  4800 inches of wood is needed to complete 100 musket ball crates
  • Slaves new math also, they also had business accounts and home accounts to keep track of
  • Soldiers carried "mess kits" to carry and prepare their food 
  • The old time bakers, to tell if an oven was hot enough, used experience to stick their hand in their   oven and judge from then
  • Musket balls were made of lead
  • An abycuss in an ancient type of calculators
  • In 1699, Williamsburg was founded and the properties to buy were made
  • 2r = diameter
  • In the 1800 century people learned math from books, tutors & teachers, experience, or from being an apprentice of any skill
  • An artificer makes produces goods for the army

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