Of ways. American history tv, we will visit mechanics hall, built in 1877. It is listed in the National Register of historic places. It served as a platform for social and cultural activities, including womens rights rallies. The first Womens Rights Convention happened before the hall open, but afterward, most people came here to speak. Worcester was the central location. If anything happened in worcester, it happened here in the hall. And finally we will look at the collection of physicist robert goddard, best known as modern rocketry. We will look at his papers, diaries, and artifacts. He attributed his first interest in space travel and a career in science to a day in 1899. Side with a saw and a hatchet and he was meant to trim branches off a cherry tree. He climbed the tree. I think he made himself a little ander a little ladder, while he was in the tree, he looked down on the fields around him and he thought how wonderful it would be to build some kind theevice that could leave ea
Im david schoumacher. We like to think of our economy as one that runs on competition. For instance, we can choose the brand ofasoline we buy. If one station sets its prices too high, thene can simply go across the stet if one station for a lower price. O high, if enough drivers pass the highprice station by, sooner or later it goes out of business. Of course, if in order to attract business a station sets its prices too low and cant cover costs, sooner or later itll go out of business, too. But what happens to prices if one company, or one person, controls all the gas stations . That was what the country faced in 1890. The company was standard oil the man was john d. Rockefeller. This was the infant oil industry john d. Rockefeller saw after the civil war. Drilling equipment was hand and footoperated in those days and available cheap. Anybody could join the oil rh, and anybody di with thousands of smallscale prospectors, drillers, and refiners competing, the supply of oil was plentifu
Monopolies whos in control . With the help of our economic analyst richard gill well find out on this edition of economics usa. Im david schoumacher. We like to think of our economy as one that runs on competition. For instance, we can choose the brand ofasoline we buy. If one station sets its prices too high thene can simplygo across the stet for a lower price. If enough drivers pass the highprice station by, sooner or later it goes out of business. Of course, if in order to attract business a station sets its prices too low and cant cover costs, sooner or later itll go out of business, too. But what happens to prices if one company, or one person, controls all the gas stations . That was what the country faced in 1890. The company was standard oil the man was john d. Rockefeller. This was the infant oil industry john d. Rockeller saw after the civil war. Drilling equipment was hand and footoperated in those days and available cheap. Anybodcould in the o rh, and anybody did. With thou
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