The Building Blocks of Frederick Tudor’s Ice Trading Business
The development of refrigeration technology started in the 1800’s, and the first commercial refrigerator appeared in the 1900’s. However, people who had access to ice used it to preserve food long before the existence of refrigeration technology. In addition, in the early 1800’s, a businessman named Frederick Tudor established an ice trading company that shipped ice to central parts of the world where ice was difficult to obtain. Without modern refrigeration technology, how did Tudor create a successful ice trading business? In F.H. Forbes’ Scribner’s Monthly Ice, he discusses how several innovations allowed Tudor to solve problems and improve methods in his ice trading business. …show more content…
Rogers explains that most researches lead to technological innovations. He defines technology as “a design for instrumental action that reduces the uncertainty in the cause-effect relationships involved in achieving a desired outcome.” In other words, we use technology to create optimal solutions for our problems or needs. Furthermore, he argues that technology has a material aspect and as software aspect, and that these two aspects contribute to creating the best solution. On one hand, the material aspect is the equipment and products. For example, a pulley system is a material aspect of technology. Pulley system allows people to create an optimal solution for lifting heavy objects through changing the direction of applied force and reducing the force needed. On the other hand, the software aspect is the knowledge, skills, procedures, and principles in technology. Almost all technology has a software aspect to them, for example, how the pulley system works. While examples like “Henry Ford’s idea of an assembly line” is purely software aspect. The idea of utilizing an assembly line speeds up the process of production and increases the quality of products as each worker specializes in one single step in the production …show more content…
According to Forbes, Wyeth created two technological innovations that became major building blocks within Tudor’s ice trading business. First, Wyeth came up with a new method to saw ice, which is the software aspect, along with new tools, which is the material aspect, to extract ice from the pond. By utilizing Wyeth’s innovation, the workers extracted more than 600 tons of ice while working only for three weeks rather than the entire season. This building block is extremely important to Tudor’s ice trading business as it increases production and lowers cost of workers at the same
The development of refrigeration technology started in the 1800’s, and the first commercial refrigerator appeared in the 1900’s. However, people who had access to ice used it to preserve food long before the existence of refrigeration technology. In addition, in the early 1800’s, a businessman named Frederick Tudor established an ice trading company that shipped ice to central parts of the world where ice was difficult to obtain. Without modern refrigeration technology, how did Tudor create a successful ice trading business? In F.H. Forbes’ Scribner’s Monthly Ice, he discusses how several innovations allowed Tudor to solve problems and improve methods in his ice trading business. …show more content…
Rogers explains that most researches lead to technological innovations. He defines technology as “a design for instrumental action that reduces the uncertainty in the cause-effect relationships involved in achieving a desired outcome.” In other words, we use technology to create optimal solutions for our problems or needs. Furthermore, he argues that technology has a material aspect and as software aspect, and that these two aspects contribute to creating the best solution. On one hand, the material aspect is the equipment and products. For example, a pulley system is a material aspect of technology. Pulley system allows people to create an optimal solution for lifting heavy objects through changing the direction of applied force and reducing the force needed. On the other hand, the software aspect is the knowledge, skills, procedures, and principles in technology. Almost all technology has a software aspect to them, for example, how the pulley system works. While examples like “Henry Ford’s idea of an assembly line” is purely software aspect. The idea of utilizing an assembly line speeds up the process of production and increases the quality of products as each worker specializes in one single step in the production …show more content…
According to Forbes, Wyeth created two technological innovations that became major building blocks within Tudor’s ice trading business. First, Wyeth came up with a new method to saw ice, which is the software aspect, along with new tools, which is the material aspect, to extract ice from the pond. By utilizing Wyeth’s innovation, the workers extracted more than 600 tons of ice while working only for three weeks rather than the entire season. This building block is extremely important to Tudor’s ice trading business as it increases production and lowers cost of workers at the same