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2 years ago

How did the triangle shirtwaist factory fire start

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Lilit [14]2 years ago

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Answer:

On March 25, a Saturday afternoon, there were 600 workers at the factory when a fire began in a rag bin. The manager attempted to use the fire hose to extinguish it, but was unsuccessful, as the hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut.

Explanation:

So one person was using a rag and had wiped up oil with the rag. Without knowing it, there was an electrical wire sticking out of the wall that was poking through one of the holes in the rag bin. When the person threw the rag in the bin, It happened to land in the right spot to be touching the electrical wire. The rag started on fire and spread.

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The cases like, the case of Genie in 1970, explains a important point that, most of our mental capacities, like the ability to think, and learning and understanding things are learned through social interaction.

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it became necessary for European industrialized nations to expand their markets globally in order to sell products that they could not sell domestically on the continent. ... The economic gains of the new imperialism were limited, however, because the new colonies were too poor to spend money on European goods.

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