Jacob Mackedanz
German 110
10/24/12
Specialist
The topic that my group had to research was the 18th
century Business and Industry of Germany. My group consisted of Robert Backes, Tom
louiselle, and myself. Robert and I split the task of finding about the
industry that Germany was consumed in at this time period. Tom took on the task
of finding out of what business consisted of in the 18th century. We
found it hard to find information on this because there isn’t much on the net
that can help you discuss this topic. But we did find some very good topics and
some pretty interesting facts.
Some of the facts that we found about the industry
of this time was that a lot of it was textile based. But towards the end of it
the steam engine came into play and industrialize the entire country. In the
1750’s the rough production of a steam engine was produced and then towards the
1780’s they refined the steam engine and allowed for the use of manipulating it
to do what they wanted it to do. One of the major things that this was used for
that we found was its use to help do silver mining and also coal mining which I
found pretty interesting. We also found out that there wouldn’t have been a
push for coal but the invention of the coal blast furnace fueled the need for
coal. Textiles where one of the first things that Germany also mechanized which
lead for a big put in this department, because everyone needed fabric and
clothing and such that they wanted a be able to mass produce it.
Tom was the wiz on the business aspect of the
presentation I also looked up information on this just so I could throw in some
ideas to talk about as well. One thing that I found interesting was that the gentlemen
would wrap there knuckles on the table to signal that they agreed with a topic
that was brought up that way they didn’t have to interrupt the discussion as it
was going on just to say that they agreed. But I also found it interesting that
they set guidelines up for business meeting but not until the industrialization
was started but it makes sense because they didn’t really have to conduct “proper
business” until this time.
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