Voice chat with England

Last Tuesday in class, we had a voice chat with Jamie, someone who works at a museum that focuses on the mill industry in England in the 19th century. To prepare for this, we did some research of our own on topics such as the food they had, accidents that could occur, and other stuff. We looked at a website containing some cases that actually were reported from the mills. We also watched a video sent to us by the museum, describing some of the machines that were used, which we then looked up on Google to figure out what each one of them was.






During the video, we were shown a few of the machines and some pictures depicting them in use or how they could have injured people. I learned that until later, all these machines were not independently powered, and thus could only be turned off at one point and often took a while to be turned off, and thus if someone was caught in the machines, they would often be either maimed or killed by the machines. They were also extraordinarily loud, often resulting in people going deaf quite quickly. The revolution was quite a double edged sword. People would have more clothes food, and soon home amenities such as electricity, However, the conditions some of these people would have to go through to make these happen is downright disgusting. Also, one thing I didn't quite realize before this talk was how much research has to be put into museums. Jamie had said that he had to put tons of hours of research into this to make things happen.

I think that overall I did learn quite a bit from this, however a lot of it was information I already knew and was being repeated. However, it does help to reinforce information that I might has been shaky on. I would definitely like to do something like this with more experts, as hearing something directly from them helps keep information straight in my head.