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Third Lord Moynihan Door Was Always Open One
1,448 wordsDeath is the new black Anyone who has ever hammered a nail into his nose owes a large debt to Melvin Burkhart. Some sentences yearn to be written. It is not hard to imagine the ill-suppressed glee with which the anonymous Daily Telegraph obituaries, writing last December in appreciation of this sideshow performer (known as the Human Blockhead because of his ability to drive a five-inch nail or ice pick into his head without flinching) flexed his fingers before starting on the one above, proving ...
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Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Alva Edison
3,517 wordsHundreds of individuals have had a great impact on American society in the 20 th century but only few are considered by my standards to be the most influential people of the 20 th century. The five people I am about to list in the following paragraphs are what I have concluded to be the people who have made the biggest impression on American life in the 20 th century. These men have contributed a great deal in making this century the progressive century it was and still is. The first person I ch...
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First Telephone Exchange Sheets An Hour Press
1,284 wordsSince 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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Alexander Graham Bell Western Union
921 wordsAlexander Bell Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bells invention of the telephone grew out of his research into ways to improve the telegraph. His soul purpose was to help the deaf hear again. Alexander Graham Bell was not trying to invent the telephone, he was just trying to help out people in need. Young Alexander Graham Bell, Aleck as his family knew him, took to reading and writing at a precociously young age. Bell family lore told of his insistence upon mailing a letter to a family fri...
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State Of The Art Western Union
684 wordsInventor 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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