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Diesel Fuel Henry Ford
1,108 wordsIn 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 wordsThere 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
3,944 words... 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 wordsDennis 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 wordsJohann 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 wordsEdison 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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
2,534 wordsCollective 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
1,718 wordsELI 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 wordsWhitney, 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 wordsHe 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 wordsHerbert 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
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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19 Th Century 17 Th Century
4,866 wordsMathematics, 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 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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Sistine Chapel Scientific Discoveries
887 wordsThe 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 wordsPrinting 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
4,818 wordsIntroduction 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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