Weathering is the principal process that acts upon the earthâs primary minerals to form the smaller and finer particles that we call âsoil.â Maui County is an excellent place to observe the effects of weathering since it contains both slightly weathered and highly weathered soils.
The Conestoga wagon was built with its floor curved upward to prevent the contents from tipping and shifting. Including its tongue, the average Conestoga wagon was 18 feet long, 11 feet high, and 4 feet in width.
Who Invented the Shopping Cart? The shopping cart was invented in the mid-1930s by Sylvan N. Goldman (1898-1984). Goldman ran a grocery store chain called Humpty Dumpty, and he observed that shoppers struggled with the âhand carryâ shopping baskets. âThey had a tendency to stop shopping when the baskets became too full or too heavy,â said Goldman in a quote cited in his obituary in The New York Times (November 27, 1984).