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19 Th Century Homo Erectus
1,531 words
Anthropologists and Archaeologists Anthropologists
and archaeologists have influenced our lives in so
many ways. They have taken us back to our most
humble beginnings. They have given us an awareness
of just how far we have come through the
centuries. Archaeology is the investigating of
life by unearthing and interpreting the objects
left behind by earlier peoples and cultures,
dating back to prehistoric times. Anthropology is
the scientific study of hominids, their physical
features, developmen...
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Alexander Graham Bell Vowel Sounds
1,165 words
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847.
He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he was
educated there and at the University of London. He
studied under his grandfather, Alexander Bell, a
well known speech teacher. (Robert V. Bruce, Bell)
His mother, Elisa Grace Symonds, was a portrait
painter and a musician. His father, Alexander
Melville, Bell, taught deaf-mutes to speak and
wrote textbooks on correct speech. He invented
Visible Speech, a code of symbols that indicated
position of the thro...
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Laissez Faire Industrial Revolution
984 words
The Industrial Revolution is the name given to the
movement in which machines changed people's way of
life as well as their methods of manufacture.
About the time of the American Revolution, English
People began to use machines to make cloth and
steam engines to run the machines. Sometime later
they invented locomotives. Productivity began a
steep climb. By 1850 most Englishmen were laboring
in industrial towns and Great Britain had become
the workshop of the world. From Britain the
Industrial R...
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Modern Societies Post Modernism
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... ces to go to that satisfied the needs of the
people. There were hospitals for the sick, there
are plumbers for the water, electricians for the
electricity, etc. People no longer did things on
their own. If something was wrong, people that
could help were only a phone call away. People
began to take advantage of things that used to be
an everyday activity. Clothes could now be washed
in bulks in a washing machine and light was one
flick of a switch away. Society in the modern
became a broken ...
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Six Times Military Service
1,158 words
What come to mind when you hear the word knight?
You are probably thinking of a book that you read
when you were younger and saw someone in shining
armor, fighting a dragon and rescuing ladies in
distress. But actually these are myths about the
knight. They never fought dragons or rescued
ladies in distress. They did however fight battles
and wars. A knight was someone who was given land
by a lord in exchange for military service in the
lords army and any money that he might earn off
his new lan...
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Million Years Ago 2 Million
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2 million years ago, life on Earth for mankind was
very different. Back then, technology as we know
it did not even exist. Over the years, mankind's
increased scientific knowledge has allowed him to
increase the amount of personal luxuries, but not
The first human beings may have appeared 2 million
years ago, but they did not even discover fire
until 1. 5 million BC. From a purely technological
standpoint, todays world far surpasses that of the
old. All the comforts of modern technology are at
o...
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Civil Rights Act Act Was Passed
855 words
Johnsons plan for reconstruction was called
Presidential Reconstruction. In this plan he made
it that the seven remaining states could be
readmitted to the Union if they did several
things. The seven states were Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Texas. The guidelines that they must
had to meet were to declare session illegal, swear
allegiance to the union, and to ratify the
Thirteenth Amendment, which would end slavery. All
of the states except Texas qui...
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Science The Glorious Entertainment
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In his work, Science: The Glorious Entertainment,
Jacques Barzun claims that science has become a
producer of distress and disturbance, while its
technology has created a sense of human
helplessness as we attempt to control nature and
the world around us. Barzun claims that man
observes science as the only reliable source of
explanation on this earth, yet as we continue to
learn more and more, we are brought back to the
belief in God. The readers mind is tugged in a
number of directions as the a...
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Grolier Electronic Publishing 19 Th Century
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An elevator is a mechanism for moving people and
freight from level to level in a building or any
other structure. The first elevator-like structure
was built in 236 BC by the Archives. This
construction was a hoist operated by ropes and
pulleys. However, the first pragmatic elevator was
not developed until the 19 th century. Though
sensible, this elevator has been modified many
times throughout the course of history and is
still updated with all of the new advancements in
math and technology. F...
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One Of The Greatest Solar System
363 words
In 1609 Galileo Galilee Constructed his first
telescope. Little did he know that this would be
one of the greatest inventions the world would
ever see. This fairly simple creation enhanced our
ability to see things that are very far away and
that cant be seen with the naked eye. We also
learned a great many more things about earth, the
rest of the solar system and the role it played in
the universe. We were able to see the phases of
the planets more easily and could see moons
revolving around ot...
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Advances In Technology Medical Advances
361 words
Advances in technology have brought on many
changes, These include. Color televisions, in the
fifties there were only black and white
televisions. Also typewriters have been replaced
with computers and word processors, furthermore
the invention of mobile telephones, and telephones
has a made a major difference in communications.
Another major change in communications and
business is the invention of the Internet. Other
major technological differences between the 1950 s
and 1990 s are knew and ad...
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Benjamin Franklin Ben Franklin
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This report tells of the many accomplishments of
Benjamin Franklin, and of how he became known as a
hero of America. It explains how he rose from
poverty by working hard. The report spreads out
Ben Franklins life and the accomplishments he made
during it, all from his birth to his death. You
will find the discoveries and inventions he made,
the way traveled in his life, and how he did all
he could to improve society. When you finish
reading this, your questions about Benjamin
Franklin will be an...
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Ford Motor Company Henry Ford
973 words
Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 to William
and Mary Ford. He was the oldest of six children.
He grew up on farm in Dearborn, Michigan. He lived
a typical childhood of spending his days in at
school and doing farm chores. Ever since he was
young, he showed an interest in mechanical things,
and how they worked and functioned. He used to
take things apart and put them back together for
fun to see how they worked (Head 47 - 50). In
1879, at the age of 16, he left his home to travel
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Million Years Ago 2 5 Million
866 words
Evolution, there has been continous discussion
about this subject. Until the time of Darwin, over
130 years ago, most scientists commonly considered
the living animals and humans to be the evidence
of one divine creator; God. However, Darwin
claimed that the apes are the ancestors of the
humans, which is accepted as evolution, and since
then the scientists, religous communities and the
people, who have different thoughts about
evolution, are trying to find out which one is
correct. Are we descen...
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Mccormick Harvesting Machine Mccormick Harvesting Machine Company Time
623 words
The mechanical reaper. A time-saving invention
which allowed farmers to more than double their
crop size while at the same time spurring other
innovations in farm machinery. This reaper, which
combined all the steps that earlier harvesting
machines had performed separately, was the
brilliant innovation of a man, a man named Cyrus
Hall McCormick. Born in Rockbridge County,
Virginia, Cyrus was son to a man who's imagination
also boggled with new inventions. As a child,
Cyrus experimented with diff...
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England And France Standards Of Living
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Industrial Revolution The European scene at the
beginning of the eighteenth century is much
different than it is today. Densely populated
cities in countries such as England and France
were merely farm towns two hundred years ago. What
caused what used to be cultivated open fields to
turn into populous towns? These questions can all
be answered and explained by the Industrial
Revolution. The word revolution implies a
suddenness of change that is not, in fact,
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Place Value Value System
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The Development and Use of Zero as a Number The
history of the number "zero" is not easy to track,
since we have little written evidence. Books were
not widely used, even for study, until after the
invention of the printing press, which is why we
have so little recorded history prior to the
fifteenth century. However, it seems that there
were several areas of the world involved with
using a "zero" by the third century. The
Babylonians are generally thought to be the
earliest to use a zero, aroun...
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Informational Technology And Its Effect On Society
911 words
Informational Technology And Its Effect On Society
Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come
about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a
device that changes the way we work, live, and
play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has
done all this and more now exists in nearly every
business and nearly every household in the U. S.
This incredible invention is the computer.
Computers have had both positive and negative
effects on the society, making peoples lives more
convenient and ...
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Charles Babbage Steel Pipes Machine
411 words
Charles Babbage I Charles Babbage A. Was born in
London 1. He was born on December 26, 1792 2. He
was the son of Benjamin Babbage, who was a London
banker. 3. Babbage stayed a bachelor all of his
life and never got married. 4. Babbage became his
own instructor of algebra, he loved solving
mathematical problems. B. Charles Babbage attended
Trinity College in Cambridge in 1811. 1. It was
about that time that Babbage first acquired the
interest in calculating machinery that became his
consuming pas...
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Gave Birth Digital Computer
406 words
John Vincent Atanasoff inventor of the electronic
computer In any scientific field, there needs to
be a person with the vision to define the future.
John Vincent Atanasoff was a genius with such a
vision. He developed the first electronic digital
computer that has dramatically changed our lives.
John Vincent Atanasoff gave birth to the field of
electronic computing. In doing so, he also gave
birth to a new era, an era of computers. Today,
the computer is an essential part of every person
as well...
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