BATTERY HOUSE
The Battery House is a building in which is operated by steam engines (mentioned previously) that crushes the quartz received from mines that contain gold, brought in from the mines.
The huge, 10-head stamper crushes the quartz bulk and controls it in a way that only gold emerged out of the wreckage while the rest of the crushed quartz is discarded near the Poppet Head, and remaining gold is filtered and sent away to be moulded.
Originally, this process would've been done through the process of puddling which was operated via horse-power. However, through steam-power, the work process became much quicker, and completed the work of fifty horses.
Of course, a machine as big as this requires tremendous amounts of steam, which, in turn, is also harmful for the environment and contributes to the increasing climate change and pollution.
IMPACTS ON SOCIETY
This impacted society in a more so negative than positive way. Horse power was no longer needed after the discovery of the Battery House, so the lives of many horses weren’t lost at the incredibly strenuous task of puddling. The Battery House also overtook many of the work in which regular people arriving for the Gold Rush had to do e.g., panning, puddling machine operating, etc.
The huge, 10-head stamper crushes the quartz bulk and controls it in a way that only gold emerged out of the wreckage while the rest of the crushed quartz is discarded near the Poppet Head, and remaining gold is filtered and sent away to be moulded.
Originally, this process would've been done through the process of puddling which was operated via horse-power. However, through steam-power, the work process became much quicker, and completed the work of fifty horses.
Of course, a machine as big as this requires tremendous amounts of steam, which, in turn, is also harmful for the environment and contributes to the increasing climate change and pollution.
IMPACTS ON SOCIETY
This impacted society in a more so negative than positive way. Horse power was no longer needed after the discovery of the Battery House, so the lives of many horses weren’t lost at the incredibly strenuous task of puddling. The Battery House also overtook many of the work in which regular people arriving for the Gold Rush had to do e.g., panning, puddling machine operating, etc.