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Edison Illuminating Company Ford Motor Company
2,284 words"A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. " Henry Ford's parents left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in the Detroit area in the 1840 s. Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, was the first of William and Mary Ford's six children. He grew up on a prosperous family farm in what is today Dearborn, Michigan. Henry enjoyed a childhood typical of the rural nineteenth century, spending days in a one-room school and doing farm chores. At an early age, he showed an interest...
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Charles Scribner Sons York Charles Scribner
2,167 words... cycled into cardboard at the factory's own paper mill. River Rouge was built to produce Model T Fords for decades to come, by the time it was capable of full production later in the decade, a factory a tenth its size could have handled the demand for Model Ts. On June 4, 1924, the ten millionth Model T Ford left the Highland Park factory, which would remain the main facility for T production. While the flivver outsold its nearest competitor by a six-to-one margin that year, its unbridled run...
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Taco Bell Hip Hop
1,263 words... gh modification of symbols and materials found in dominate culture. Individuals identify themselves with the changes they make to their cars, allowing their automobiles to project the image that they wish for themselves. Car Stereos also are an important factor in a "bitches ride. " The volumes achievable today in automobiles is staggering. Car Stereos often can be heard as far as a mile away, causing the whole chassis to rattle with each bass hit. West Side members, all have customized spea...
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Diesel Engines Sports Cars
1,107 words... With the new diesel engine in production, trucks were able to be built bigger and have more horsepower. As a result the semi-truck was born. The semi truck became a substitute to the train. The semi was the largest production truck built for heavy-duty trailer pulling truck. The semi would tow a large trailer on the back. The trailer would be filled with what ever item that need to be transported in mass quantity to areas that a train could not reach. The semi became the king of the road bec...
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The Two Countries That Invented Industrial Revolution
1,473 words... in 1830, a measuring instrument accurate to a millionth of an inch. Eli Whitney. The term "Yankee ingenuity" could have been coined with Whitney in mind. Americans solved issues of speed and mass production. In 1798, American Eli Whitney, secured a US government contract (for $ 134, 000) to produce 10, 000 army muskets. Whitney refined and successfully applied the "Uniformity-System" of production using inter-changeable parts. However, Whitney met bureaucratic disbelief and delays in impleme...
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York Franklin Watts Peoples Lives
846 wordsContent Area: Persuasive Speaking, and writing components Integrated Area: Art / drama , science, and social studies -that technology affects peoples lives-past, present, and future. -that as technology changes, peoples lives change. Objectives: The students will be able to: -evaluate the change of a certain invention from the past to the future; -work as a group to complete a task or assignment. Ben censored , J. (1978). The first book of automobiles. New York: Franklin Watts. Ben censored , J....
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Walking Or Bicycling Walking Bicycling And Driving Car
1,085 wordsYou stroll along, moving one foot in front of the other in a repetitious pattern or maybe your feet rotate pedals along a chain, while your hands steer the way. If this is a bit too demanding, just sit back, relax, and allow a machine to carry out the task, while little or no effort at all is required on your part. Regardless of timing factors, each one of these methods will bring you to your desired destination. Trips can range anywhere from the most basic walk around the block all the way to t...
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Frequencies Tables Wich Christian Muslim Druze Commercial
761 wordsWELL-DESIGNED COMMERCIAL INFLUENCING POSITIVELY YOUR PURCHASING ATTITUDE: The purpose of this research is to analyse the relationship consumer-commercial. More precisely the influence of a well-designed commercial on our consumptions habits. Therefore I established a questionnaire of eleven questions, trying to understand how much does advertising affects us. This questionnaire stands as follow: First, some questions to circle the person's background, what we call the exogenous variables, the ag...
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Effects Of Acid Rain Sulfur Dioxide
1,028 words"Acid Rain, " or more precisely acidic precipitation, is the term used to describe rainfall that has a pH level of less than 5. 6 -- a pH of 7 being neutral. This form of air pollution is currently a subject of great controversy because of the damage it does tot he environment and property worldwide. For the last ten years, this occurrence has brought destruction to thousands of lakes and streams in the United States, Canada, and parts of Europe. It also leads to the deterioration of buildings a...
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Consumer Culture Iron Cage
1,845 words"People recognise themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobiles, hi-fi sets, split level homes social control is anchored in the new needs which the consumer society has produced. " (Marcuse, 1968: 24) To what extent are we controlled by the consumer society we live in? People recognise themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobiles, hi-fi sets, split level homes social control is anchored in the new needs which the consumer society has pr...
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Traffic And Urban Congestion 1955 1970
1,618 wordsIn 1960, Great Britain still had no urban freeways. But with the ownership of private cars becoming ever more common, the problem of congestion in British cities was unavoidable. Investigating the possibilities of freeways as alleviator's of big-city traffic jams, the government-sponsored Buchanan Report was pessimistic: ... the study shows the very formidable potential build-up of traffic as vehicular ownership and usage increase to the maximum. The accommodation of the full potential is almost...
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U S Trade Tariff Barriers
1,675 words... Taiwan's Major Exports for the years 1997 and 1998. Taiwan's Trade Regime Like a number of its Asian neighbors, Taiwan's economy was protected in many sectors in the 1950 s and 1960 s. As part of a trade liberalization effort encouraged by Taiwan's major trading partners, notably the United States in accordance with WTO accession, many of these trade barriers have been reduced or dismantled in recent years. However, substantial barriers remain in a number of sectors. In an effort to attract ...
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Alternative Fuels Fuel Efficiency
996 wordsPeople Concept Cars CONCEPT CARS People go to car shows to see the manufacturers futuristic concept cars and are always fascinated and amazed by the impressive engineering. Little do they realize, those concept cars of tomorrow are actually prototypes of what is to come. The car shows only intent is to showoff the engineers technical ideas, to get the populations reaction, and to test the functionality of their new creation. How will tomorrows mobile units look and perform? The late twenty-first...
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Chelsea House Publishers Publishers New York
1,350 wordsAutomobiles Environmental Pollution ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION Automobiles like these are around the world everyday, and their exhaust destroys our air everyday. Our environment is a major aspect of our life today. Many of us dont take our Earth seriously and think that as long as pollution doesnt hurt them they can go ahead and throw garbage on the ground or spill oil down the drain. Well to many people have that theory and they are killing off our Earth and also physically harming themselves from...
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Law Abiding Citizens Drunk Drivers
707 wordsGUN CONTROL A law to outlaw all guns would be more effective at disarming law-abiding citizens than at disarming the criminals who abuse them. If guns were outlawed, the outlaws would not stop carrying guns, but the good, law-abiding people would. It would do nothing about the illegally obtained handguns in the possession of criminals and terrorist. Criminals and terrorists ignore bans. The only two things passing a law of this nature would accomplish would be to take away the honest citizens ab...
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1920 Was A Decade End Of The Decade Inventions
866 wordsInventions of the 1920 s The 1920 s was a decade full of new and fascinating innovations and creations. It was also a very busy time for improving inventions created just before the 1920 s. These new inventions changed life in a drastic way for everyone back then as well as for the people of our modern era. The roaring 20 sas they were called yielded literally thousands of new ideas and products for theater-craving people of the time. As the economy boomed people ended up with lots of extra mone...
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21 St Century Mass Media
751 wordsThe Modernization of America The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869. The telephone was invented in 1876. The first practical system for a radio was developed in 1895. The Wright brothers created a flying machine in 1903. The first gas powered automobile, the assembly line and the refrigerator were produced in the early 20 th century. These are all very important steps in laying the foundation for the modernization of America, but I would argue that the first truly modern period in A...
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Twenties The Twenties Americans Owned Time
550 wordsThe The Twenties The Twenties The twenties is a time when some of the biggest changes in American history took place. In the following report I am going to tell about some of the most important and influential moments of the time period called the twenties. First I will start by telling you about Americans as consumers. The twenties brought a new standard of living. Between 1923 and 1929 Americans saw their wages make an increase of 11 %. Some of the jobs that saw the pay increase were mining, p...
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One Of The Most Important Steam Engine
1,213 wordsThe steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 17121. It was a very important invention and helped give way to the Industrial Revolution. It was very useful invention of his time. Many people like James Watt and Richard Trevithick used the atmospheric steam engine to produce more sophisticated inventions. Thomas Newcomen was a very important inventor. He was born in 1663 in Britain. He worked as a blacksmith until he worked with Thomas Savery, who had already tried to make a steam engine bu...
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Supply And Demand Producing Countries
719 wordsSupply and Demand in the Gasoline Market The substance known, as gasoline is a mixture of lighter liquid hydrocarbons used chiefly as a fuel for internal-combustion engines. It is produced by the fractional distillation of petroleum; by condensation or adsorption from natural gas; by thermal or catalytic decomposition of petroleum or its fractions; by the hydrogenation of producer gas or coal; or by the polymerization of hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight. Gasoline produced by the direct dis...
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