Why was Richard Arkwright so successful? Richard Arkwright, one of thirteen, was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1732. However, Richard’s family were not as well off as he would later be, so much so, that his parents could not even afford to send him to school. Instead, Richard was taught to read and write by his cousin. Childhood In his early years, Richard was an ambitious man, with a desire to run his own company, which he pursued, as in 1762; Arkwright began a wig making business.
David Dale, owner of Chorton Twist Company in Scotland met with Robert Owen and the two became great friends. In 1799, Robert married David’s daughter, Caroline. With the financial support of several businessmen from Manchester, Owen purchased Dale's four textile factories in New Lanark for £60,000. Under Owen's control, the Chorton Twist Company expanded rapidly. However, Robert Owen was not only concerned with making money; he was also interested in creating a new type of community at New Lanark.
Ryan Gutjahr A Gilded Age Paper In the excerpts of “Ragged Dick” written by Horatio Alger and “Looking Backward” written by Edward Bellamy, the readers can see a strong difference in how times have changed wages, living standards, and more importantly the way workers climb their to the top of the Industrial food chain. These two stories both show many comparisons, but also multiple contrasts. In “Ragged Dick” we meet a young man who goes by the name of Ragged Dick, at the young age of only 15 he has acquired his own shoe shine business since the age of 7 from working with different tailors and finally having his own customers who pay around the fee of ten cent per shine. Dick is a very poor young man with no family or home, and yet we see he has a lot of ambition underneath his dirty clothes and face. With not much knowledge or money Dick refuses not to be a “Spectable” gent as he would say.
Oskar Schindler At one time in his life, Oskar Schindler was a German businessman who made a fortune doing whatever it took to make a profit. He was greedy and ruthless and didn’t always do things the right way, but he always achieved whatever he set out to do. It was that same determination that drove him to succeed in saving over 1,000 Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II. Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Svitavy, Moravia, which today is located in the Czech Republic (Gordeeva). He was raised in a middle-class Catholic family in a region called Sudetenland.
It seems that He could rarely be mistaken. Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17th, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger Franklin. Benjamin, who was the tenth child, of seventeen sisters and brothers, “the youngest son of a youngest son for five generations back” (Franklin). Benjamin was a smart child who loved to read Abiah and Josiah wanted Benjamin to be a clergyman, but due to financial issues they could not send Benjamin to college, so Josiah had him first apprenticed as a candle maker and then to his brother, James as a typesetter in a printing press. The books, papers and ideas he was introduced to in his brother’s shop set the young man on a path to greatness.
A door is featured in the coat-of-arms the family acquired. Albrecht Dürer the Younger later changed "Türer", his father's diction of the family's surname, to "Dürer", to adapt to the local Nuremberg dialect. Albrecht Dürer the Elder married Barbara Holper, the daughter of his master, when he himself became a master in 1467. [2] Dürer's godfather was Anton Koberger, who left goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher in the year of Dürer's birth and quickly became the most successful publisher in Germany, eventually owning twenty-four printing-presses and having many offices in Germany and abroad. Koberger's most famous publication was the Nuremberg Chronicle, published in 1493 in German and Latin editions.
Andrew Carnegie, whose life became a rags-to-riches story, was born into modest circumstances on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland, the second of two sons of Will, a handloom weaver, and Margaret, who did sewing work for local shoemakers. In 1848, the Carnegie family (who pronounced their name “carNEgie”) moved to America in search of better economic opportunities and settled in Allegheny City (now part of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania. Andrew Carnegie, whose formal education ended when he left Scotland, where he had no more than a few years’ schooling, soon found employment as a bobbin boy at a cotton factory, earning $1.20 a week. Ambitious and hard-working, he went on to hold a series of jobs, including messenger in a telegraph
The main of his inventions was of course the printer. Also he persuaded the government to use his printer to make more notes of one pounds and five pounds. The government made millions in the end with just a couple of printers. Many people used Augustus’s designs to build there own type of printer and to print newspapers. Augustus lived in the Dartford district for over 40years while also establishing a silk and calico printing works in the town in 1843.
Introduction Barilla SpA is the largest pasta manufacturer in the world, making 35% of all pasta sold in Italy and 22% of all pasta sold in Europe. Barilla was founded in 1875 when Pietro Barilla opened a small shop in Parma, Italy. Pietro’s son led the company through a significant growth period and in the 1940’s passed the company to his own two sons, Pietro and Gianna. In the 1960’s, competing in a overcrowded field of over 2,ooo pasta manufacturers, Pietro and Gianni Barilla differentiated the company using a high quality product supported by innovative marketing programs. In 1968, to support the double-digit sales growth the company was experiencing, Pietro and Gianni Barilla began construction on a 1.25 million square meter state-of-the art pasta plant in Pedrignano.
General Mills Patricia Sohlé Colorado State University Global OPS 405 General Mills is a company that most households in the United States are familiar with, but how extensive a business this company is will surprise most. This massive and highly profitable company dates back to 1856 with the original founding of the Minneapolis Milling Company by Robert Smith. Mr. Smith had negotiated leased power rights to mills situated along the Mississippi River. It was shortly after the company was established that the Washburn brothers, William and Cadwallader, acquired it and began developing the business with large mills. By 1874 they had built two of the largest mills known.