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Diesel Fuel Henry Ford
1,108 words
In my research paper I am going to tell you how
the first automobile and the evolution of the
automobile helped the United States be able to
expand as rapidly as it did with the help of the
automobile and its many uses. With the invention
of the automobile came a new sense of freedom. The
automobile has been a force that has helped to set
the course for the future. In the year 1903 a man
named Henry Ford invented the first gas powered
combustion engine. With this new engine he was
able to constr...
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Television Enhances Our Lives Enhances Our Lives Shows
607 words
There are those who condemn television, the
broadcasted shows, and the use of television in
the home. While others believe, the world would be
better off if television had never been invented
at all. Only about one out of every two hundred
television, shows are considered to have a harmful
influence on those who viewed them. Still
television is one of the best inventions of all
times. Television enhances our lives in three
ways; through its many practical uses, through
shows that have positive a...
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Writing System Record Keeping
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... organized only by scanning the text for
syllable boundaries. Compared to western writing
systems, the composed characters tend to be taller
and thinner. A line of Thai text can be considered
to be logically divided into four parallel lines:
The base line, on which consonants, some vowels,
some Thai symbols and Thai numbers are written The
line below the base line, used for writing lower
vowels and lower diacritics The line above the
base line, used for writing upper vowels and upper
diacriti...
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Nitrous Oxide Excruciating Pain
3,190 words
Dennis Brindell Fradin wrote in "We Have Conquered
Pain": The Discovery of Anesthesia, "We take it
for granted that we can sleep through operations
without feeling any pain. But until about 150
years ago, the operating room was a virtual
torture chamber because surgeons had no way to
prevent the pain caused by their healing knives. "
Fradin is right. Since several analyses of archaic
human bones have proven that people have suffered
from disease and pain since the beginning of their
existence, o...
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Live Their Lives Teenage Girls
440 words
# 8220; You laugh because I'm different. I laugh
because you " re all the same. " Many may believe
that the world's most important inventions would
include televisions, computers, automobiles, or
telephones. I wanted to be different in that
belief. Of course, I know that my choice is not
the world's most important invention, but it
certainly helps women in their every day lives. In
my humble sarcastic opinion, I chose the tampon as
the world's most important invention. Several of
my friends have...
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Johann Gutenberg And The Invention Of Printing Press
609 words
Johann Gutenberg, thought to be the father of
modern printing, lived from about 1400 to 1467,
where he died at Mainz. He was the son of a coin
maker, which may have perhaps influenced him while
working around those machines all day. In 1430,
Gutenberg and his family migrated to Strasburg,
because of political difficulties at the time.
There he starting teaching students of his trades,
including, gem polishing, making looking glasses,
and the printing press. Gutenberg perfected his
printing press...
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Charles Scribner Sons York Charles Scribner
2,414 words
Edison Decades before Thomas Edison's work began
on moving pictures, people were making crude hand
drawn motion pictures, much like how animated
cartoons are drawn. Eventually photographers began
to experiment with taking a series of pictures of
a subject in motion, and then showing them back in
sequence. British photographer Edward Muybridge
was a pioneer in this process. He had 700 cameras
set up in sequence, to photograph a trotting
horse. This major undertaking yielded just 60
seconds of mot...
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World War Ii 20 Th Century
1,646 words
A Significant milestone in Global History: The
Computer Revolution Revolutions, world wars, fall
of Communism, global warming, a man in the space,
discovering penicillin, radio, TV, phones,
computers, internet here are some of significant
milestones have had a profound impact on global
history. The series of great inventions preceded
the wide use of electronic health records and,
first of all, the invention of computer. A lot of
inventors made a great contribution to the history
of computers. It...
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Thomas Edison Recording Industry
3,198 words
The Phonograph Overview The invention of the
phonograph and other sound reproduction machines
began a new way of producing historical archives.
Expressions of the human voice were no longer
limited to their abstraction as words on the page,
and the artistry and passion of a musical
performance could be preserved outside human
memory. People could bring the sounds of the world
into their homes, and a global culture began to
arise out of the mixture of influences that a
broad diversity of recordin...
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Low Interest Rates Collective Bargaining
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Collective Bargaining: A Great Social Invention? =
Theres strength in numbers This is a clich? , or
could even be called a proverb that most of us
have heard at some stage in our lives. It also
lies at the heart of collective bargaining, and it
provides a reasonable, although simplistic reason
for the use of collective bargaining, and also
gives us an indication of where and for whom it is
most useful. Collective bargaining's origins lie
in one of mans primary instincts; defence. In an
industria...
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Eli Whitney Cotton Gin
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ELI WHITNEY BIRTH Dec 8, 1765 Westborough, MA
DEATH Jan 8, 1825 New Haven, CT MARRIAGE Jan 6,
1817 Henrietta Edwards OCCUPATION Inventor
NATIONALITY United States Eli Whitney was one of
the most influential industrialists and one of the
greatest pioneers of the Industrial Revolution in
early American history. He lived in the south for
only a few years, yet, during this time, he
created an invention that would revolutionize the
agricultural industry. The creation of the cotton
gin, an machine tha...
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Cotton Gin United States Whitney
293 words
Whitney, Eli (1765 - 1825), American inventor,
best known for his invention of the cotton gin.
Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts, on
December 8, 1765, and educated at Yale College
(now Yale University). In 1792 he visited the
plantation, near Savannah, Georgia, of Catharine
Greene, widow of the American Revolutionary War
general Nathanael Greene. There he designed and
built a model for a machine that would separate
the seeds from the fibers of the short-staple
cotton plant, work that u...
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Garrett Augustus Morgan Garrett Augustus Invention
259 words
He lived from (1875 - 1963). I chose this person
because I liked his name and he sounded very
interesting. He was born in Paris, Kentucky on
March 4, 1875. He was the seventh of eleven
children in his family. He has a degree in Traffic
Engineering. In 1913, Morgan developed a process
that could straighten hair. He made the Morgan
Hair Refinishing Company. Hair straightening was
not a big invention although he made a lot of
money in this business. When he received a grad
prize at a New York Safet...
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H G Wells First Person Point
2,257 words
Herbert George Wells was a famous English
Novelist, historian, science writer, author of
science fiction, and author of over one-hundred
books. He was born a third son on Saturday,
September twenty-first, 1866 in Bromley England.
His father, Joseph, Then thirty-eight, was a poor
shopkeeper in a small way who later became a
professional cricketer. His mother, Sarah, then
forty-three, served as a housekeeper to the
Fetherstonhaugh family at Up Park, Sussex. His
family was not very well off at the ...
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First Telephone Exchange Sheets An Hour Press
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Since the beginning of time, people have had the
need to communicate with one and other. The most
common type of communication is speech, but you
could not talk to someone who lived 20 miles away.
Then written language was developed, people marked
symbols on paper, stone, or whatever was
available. Then hundreds of years passed, and
people who wanted to share their ideas with people
had to do allot of writing, until someone thought
to make a writing machine. This machine is called
the printing p...
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19 Th Century 17 Th Century
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Mathematics, study of relationships among
quantities, magnitudes, and properties and of
logical operations by which unknown quantities,
magnitudes, and properties may be deduced. In the
past, mathematics was regarded as the science of
quantity, whether of magnitudes, as in geometry,
or of numbers, as in arithmetic, or of the
generalization of these two fields, as in algebra.
Toward the middle of the 19 th century, however,
mathematics came to be regarded increasingly as
the science of relations,...
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State Of The Art Western Union
684 words
Inventor of Multiplex Telegraph Thomas Alva Edison
was born in Milan, Ohio, February 11, 1847. In
1854 the family moved to Port Huron, Michigan,
where seven-year-old Tom Edison set up his first
chemical laboratory in the cellar of their large
house. Edison's career as a telegraph operator
began when he snatched a station agents young son
from the path of a moving freight car. Out of
gratitude the father taught Edison the new science
of telegraphy. By the time he was seventeen,
Edison was on the ...
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Sistine Chapel Scientific Discoveries
887 words
The 14 th, 15 th and part of 16 th century was a
glorious time for Europe, it was the reformation
of many old ideas and the formation of many new,
this was called the Renaissance. The Renaissance
brought many changes to Europe, the economy was
greatly boosted by of all the new explorations.
The flourishing economy helped to inspire new
developments in art and literature. And from that
many new beliefs were formed. The European economy
flourished during the Renaissance due to many
factors. There ...
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Due To The Fact European Nations
1,997 words
Printing The printing industry is a very important
and useful industry. The industry has gone through
a lot of changes. My report will discuss the
history, changes, and present of the printing
business. The first printing was actually in China
and was called yin (meaning to authenticate by the
impression of a seal on clay). Seals were followed
by taking ink rubbings from stone inscriptions,
which has directly led the way to the making of
books by inked impressions from wood. Ink rubbings
were ma...
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Alexander Graham Bell Spanish American War
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Introduction In ancient times there were many
great ideas which began to shape the way man
perceived his environment. However, there were few
minds who were able to put all of these ideas
together. One of these minds belonged to Claudius
Ptolemy, or just Ptolemys he is commonly referred
to. We know almost nothing of the chronology of
Ptolemyslife, and we dont even know his birth or
death dates. We do know, though, about his ideas
in several fields, which include geography,
astronomy, optics, ast...
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