In his essay “When Everybody Wins Does the Environment Lose? The Environmental Techno-Fix in Twentieth-Century American Mining,” Timothy J. LeCain…
Lecain argues that through the three classes of techno-fix, transformational, relocational, and delaying, the effects of the industry of mining…
According to LeCain, there are three types of technological fixes, the transformative techno-fix, relocational techno fix, and the delaying techno-fix.…
LeCain argues for three reasons on why these three technological fixes can be concerning. First, he agrees that these fixes…
Right off the bat, LeCain claims that the three technological fixes “…ultimately resulted in other environmental problems, and they thus…
LeCain argues in his essays that technological fixes can be classified into three general categories; transformational, relocational, and delaying. LeCain…
LeCain’s argument is very simple yet effective, the “fix” that people are using is simply fixing one problem by causing…
LeCain’s argument in the case studies of technofixes for environmental pollution of smeltering facilities shows that secondary environmental pollution caused…
LeCain’s argument concerning the types of technological fix seems to be that every type of fix eventually damages the environment…
Bryce Dawkins Paragraph 1: The lasting effects of mining as we have gone over the past two weeks are very…
LeCain asserts that there are three types of technological fixes for environmental consequences of industry and provides two examples of…
According to Harari, science, empire, and capitalism are all liked by referring back to how our minds are fit to…
Tim Lecain goes into great depth on how technological advances have made underground mining to occur. In Butte, Montana, a…
I see the technological advances in underground mining as a band aid that keeps on getting bled through, and we…
Tim LeCain talks about dangerous problems that many hard-rock miners run into, including “subterranean flooding, heat, and ventilation” (LeCain, 37).…
Mining has always been a dangerous and hard job that for many centuries wouldn’t be able to go far below…
“Technical obstacles quickly emerged at only 50 feet below the surface, Hearst’s miners hit groundwater and the mine began to…
For most of our history, the biggest obstacle to human deep rock mining could be summed up as “too much…
As technological advances occur, as does progression in ability and efficiency of technologically inclined societies. In LeCain’s “Between Heavens and…
The Anaconda mine in the early 1900’s exemplified the growing distance between the “technosphere” and the natural environment—the improvement of…
Tim LeCain shares in his text “Between the Heavens and the Earth” a wide array of examples of how mining engineers have…
I found this reading interesting because it tied together a few of the topics we have been exploring in the…
Technology is important for mining because it can be used to make the mines run deeper and make more money.…
Technological advances have made underground mining more thorough and invasive, and although miners were able to access previously deadly areas,…
Tim LeCain explores how complex technological systems had to be created in order to meet challenges seen while mining in…
One of the biggest, and most obvious, consequences of technological advancements in mining is more efficient mining. This is evident…
In “Between the Heavens and the Earth” it talked about how Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb was instrumental…
In Between Heavens and the Earth, Tim LeCain explains the dangers that come with underground mining and the many inventions…
One of the serious health issues for mining at great depths is the heat and body temperature. It’s been a…
In the mining world there were many advancements that were made from the beginning of the mining era to its…
As was it was put on page 38 of the reading from LeCain, ” As mines began to sink thousands…
Make a hole. Make it bigger. Acquire the resources. As simple as mining may sound, it isn’t. It requires a…
Mining has made great advances over the years. What started as people panning for gold…
LeCain offers multiple explanations for how technological advances prompted the furthering of underground mining. Firstly, steam powered water pumps allowed…
Technological advances, such as electricity and inventions that used electricity such as street cars, required copper based components like wires…
The number of deep and oxygen barren mine shafts of early 1900s mining, spurred largely by the search for the…
For every large economic field, there have been technological advances assisting in their growth. Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, and Singer’s…
In “Between the Heavens and the Earth,” Tim LeCain discusses the importance of copper mining at the turn of…
Lecain gives us many examples of the technological advancements to mining occurring in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Namely,…
Mining has been a staple in resource gathering for the better part of human history, as the earth itself holds…
Technological advances allow underground mining to occur by making it so that digging deep into the ground could be easier. …
The practice of mining in itself drove engineering because it forced engineers to develop safer, more efficient ways for miners…
Technological advancements in the mining industry have definitely helped the industrial powers and mass progress of the United States, providing…
As explained by LeCain, the industrial push in the United States, especially with the creation of and demand for electricity…
Technological advances during the late 19th and early 20th centuries were some of the most impressive engineering feats of that…
Human kind has been using the natural resources provided on earth for millions of years; however, with the advances of…
Many of us are familiar with the anxious unsettling thought of your world falling apart, that gut drop right before…
Mining has been around for hundreds of years and it still is a major business today. As technology advances so…
HSTR 207 – Science and Technology in World History Mary Hill Young 10/8/18 The most striking technologies of…
In “Between the Heavens and the Earth” Tim LeCain writes about some of the challenges miners face while underground mining…
Tim LeCain explains in his book Between the Heavens and the Earth that the Butte copper mines needed to new…
Thanks to the complex pumping, ventilation, and cooling systems that mining engineers created miners could better survive and work in…
Technology provided many different new advances that allowed us to go deeper into the ground, then ever imagined. The more…
One problem in many mines, specifically in Butte is running into subterranean bodies of water. A fix for this problem…
Technological advances for mining are another one of those technological fixes, and they create solutions to the problems that come…
Technological advances have helped mining go faster and safer for miners. The advances that have helped in making mining faster…
Mining precious and base metals throughout American history has had a major impact on our industrialization and financial growth as…
Mining has always been a perilous and laborious occupation. Extremely primitive processes of extraction marked the early days of mining,…
Tim LeCain explores how mining engineers developed subterranean maps, water pumps, and better spaces for human workers including a way…
The first technological advancement that allowed for the implementation of copper mining was Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb…
Technological advances such as water pumps, ventilation, and personal equipment made it possible for miners to go into subterranean areas…
As discussed by LeCain in “Between the Heavens and the Earth”, mining underground not only comes with a slew of…
It was thought that “with improved maps and measurements, mining could be rationalized and systematized; obstacles could be overcome with…
As the mines developed, so did the safety risks involved with them. The mines needed to be researched and understood…
New technologies allowed us to mine deeper into the ground without fear of losing sight of whatever was ahead. New…
Mining has been substantial component in establishing many western territories including Montana. One of the earliest forms of a complex…
Tim LeCain explains the influence that mining engineers had on the development of hospitable subterranean environments. Miners were required to…
Mining engineers repeatedly used technology in different ways to “surpass the subterrestrial environmental barriers to human survival” (LeCain, 47). The…
Deep in the ground not too far from here, the miners in Butte, Montana experienced work in some of the…
With the advancement of mining engineering and technology, cities like Butte became a huge draw for people like Marcus Daly,…
Technological advances seem to be the answers to most problems of America. Take mining for example. To deal with the…
LeCain stated that the absence of mining was not an option. (Pg. 25) The only option was to come up…
All these technological advances definitely furthered the ability to miner deeper metals, there is still the challenge because of the…
One major advance described is the steam-powered pump used at the Comstock Lode. Once the miners had dug deep enough,…
Copper production increased rapidly at the start of the 20th century, largely due to the use of electricity and for…
Miners in Butte, Anaconda, and elsewhere have had to adapt to a variety of challenges including mapping subterranean landscapes, underground…
If man has shown nothing else, it is his willingness and ingenuity in invention when exerting his will over nature.…
In the reading, LeCain examines how science has impacted mining in extreme environments. He notes that “With improved maps and…
As the mining industry continues to develop environmental roadblocks are present problems in the work force. Luckily for the companies…
Technological advances allowed underground mining to occur because they allowed mining companies to push underground mining to its absolute limits,…
Due to the perilous and risky nature of mining, many technological measures are necessary in order to make the process…
LeCain writes on the engineering advances that allowed men to mine in the most extreme depths. When the miners ran…
This week’s reading of “Between the Heavens and the Earth” sheds light on the advancements in technology which made underground…
Tim LeCain explains many techniques that mining engineers use in order to overcome the issues that arise with large scale…
There were a few technological advancements that allowed underground mines to dig deeper and thrive as they got deeper into…
The progress made in the safety and quality of mining was almost always to allow miners to reach further…
The ever-increasing rewards of deep subsurface mining necessitated the invention of new methods and technology to allow for mining to…
Technological fixes are often used to counteract consequences of human development. This can be seen in the impact of the…
In LeCain’s “Between the Heavens and the Earth”, he discusses various technological advances that allowed for underground mining in addition…
As the text explains, when mines first started, little technology was needed to accomplish the task. However, the great challenges…
Getting tons and tons of metal ore from deep below the surface of our Earth is no easy task. Humanity…
In LeCain’s Between the Heavens and the Earth, there is a lot of discussion of what technology benefitted mining throughout…
Copper was critical in a lot of the new technology and infrastructure emerging during the time of the later…
With the nineteenth and twentieth century came the rise of new powerful machines and techniques that allowed mining deep into…
Early mining technologies like steam-powered water pumps, lifts, ventilation systems, and oxygen masks allowed underground mining to occur. It seems,…
“With improved maps and measurements… obstacles could be overcome with powerful new machines and techniques”. (Lecain, p.36) These maps and…
Audrey Scott 10/8 I’m guessing pretty much everyone in this class knows something about the detrimental history of mining, and…
Technological advances have done so much for our modern world there is no question that technological advances applied to the…
Early mining engineers face an incredible amount of challenges to make technological advances that would help make mining safer for…
In “Between the Heavens and the Earth,” LeCain explains how technological advances made by mining engineers made it possible to…
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Technology in the underground mining industry has made way to many advances in the industry. “During the late nineteenth and…
Underground mining is a practice that has been heavily employed since the industrial revolution to provide the necessary metals and…
Technologies advanced were directly linked to mining because they relied on each other. Advancements in electricity needed copper to work.…
One of the most notable (and often times noted notorious) time periods in mining history was the California gold rush…
Mining is by no means an easy feat. Countless people have died in mines since they were created. In most…
In Mass Destruction, Timothy LeCain describes how mining technology made quantum leaps in the decades following Thomas Edison’s development of…
The development of mining has been incredibly beneficial for the people of Montana, however it does have a great deal…
In the article, LeClain brings up the need for copper in the United Sates and points out the benefit it…
There were many technological advances made by mining engineers that allowed the working miners to push into the treacherous depths…
Bryce Dawkins Paragraph 1: After reading this article and understanding the benefits and consequences if mining. I doubt I will…
Underground mining has been a staple of gold, silver, and coal mining that has seen lots of development since the…
Government and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines for the following reasons: these inventions play a role in…
In the context of this week’s reading, air pumps and electrical machines represent progress and change. Governments and religious entities,…
Johnson uses a few examples in The Invention of Air about how technologies such as air pumps and electrical machines…
Science is often seen as something that exists outside the realms of politics or religion, however, for Joseph Priestley the…
Governments and religions should fear electrical machines and air pumps because that is what ends up shaping what governments and…
The Government was afraid of improved technology because the air pump and electrical machines gave normal people the power of…
The theme of Priestley’s quote at the beginning is that governments or specifically the English hierarchy had a reason to…
Priestly’s revolutionary ideologies spanned his religious, scientific and political perspectives as one interconnected web; they informed and affected one…
Empire, science, and capitalism are all linked together according to Harari due to how they all seem benefit off of…
I think that they should be afraid of air pumps and electrical machines because in that time period they were…
Air pumps and electrical machines used to send shivers down the spines of English politicians and priests. The idea that such machines could…
Governments and religions have every right to fear things such as air pumps and electrical machines. Inventions like these really…
This idea of governments and religions fearing these technologies is an important part of history. As Johnson states in The…
These inventions could change religion and governments in very diffrent ways but both with a negative outcomes for their side.…
Governments and religions should fear “air pumps and electrical machines” because of what theses scientific advancements and others like it…
Fearing things such as an air pump or electrical machine is something that governments and religions have to take into…
Governments and religions typically strive to maintain the current social order of the hierarchies they oversee. Science, in contrast, questions…
The analogy of the air pumps and electrical machines portrays the effect of scientific process on the common culture of…
Governments have always had a disconnect with the people that is governs. That may not be totally visible but the…
Technology certainly has drawbacks and negative impacts on humans. However, there are many reasons that governments should fear air pumps…
In Yuval Harari’s Sapiens, he argues that societies are only possible due to shared beliefs. Reading The Invention of Air…
I think this quote by Priestley is an interesting way of saying that governments and religions fear science. In the…
Religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines because science challenges the very being of what religion is. Priestly wrote…
Priestly uses this quote to make the abilities of technology and science very clear. New found technologies and science are…
Governments and religions should fear air pumps not because of what an air pump is, but because it is a…
I think that governments and religions fear the air pump and the electrical machine because they enabled one of the…
In his novel, Johnson asserts, through his detailed analysis of Joseph Priestley’s life, that the air pump and/or electricity should…
In Johnson’s Invention of Air, the idea of governments or religions fearing air pumps and electrical machines is mentioned extensively. This…
The air pump is one if the few of the few innovations in earths history that has had such an…
Governments, religions, and other relatively static institutes that hold power over large numbers of people should fear air pumps and…
Inventing air would’ve been quite the feat. Joseph Priestly discovered air which led to the reasoning how and why combustion…
The use of the air pump and electrical machines are good, specific examples of things that kicked off the Industrial…
Shortly after the epigraph quote is repeated on page 130, Johnson explains the battling nature of politics, religion, and science.…
“The English hierarchy has equal reason to tremble at an air pump, or an electrical machine” (Johnson, 148) In the…
Why should governments and religions fear air pumps and electrical machines? Why climb the highest mountain? Why does Rice play…
The statement that governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines is a comment about the fact that…
Throughout history, there has been an undeniable trend of an increase in comfort and ease of life for the elite…
The notion that the great English empire and hierarchy should tremble at the air pump or electrical machine, would have…
In the 18th century, the collective advancements in energy and how to apply it to businesses within society has…