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- 2291: Thomas Edison
- ... in history. He was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847 and died in 1931. During his life he patented 1,093 inventions. Many of these inventions are in use today and changed the world forever. Some of his inventions include telegraphy, phonography, electric lighting and photography. His most famous inventions were the phonograph and the incandescent light bulb. Edison did some of his greatest work at Menlo Park. While ... of 1877 Edison had developed the carbon-button transmitter that is still used today in telephone speakers and microphones. Many of Thomas Edison’s inventions including the carbon transmitter were in response to demands for new products and improvements. In 1877, he achieved his most unique discovery, the phonograph. During the summer of 1877 Edison was attempting to devise for the automatic telegraph a machine that would transcribe a signals as ... they were hearing including a leading French scientist who declared it to be a trick device of a ventriloquist. The public’s amazement was quickly followed by universal approval. Edison became famous all around the world and was dubbed the Wizard of Menlo Park, although ten years passed before the phonograph was transformed form a laboratory curiosity into a commercial product. His most famous and most commonly used invention is ...
- 2292: Till We Have Faces
- ... Psyche has felt herself somehow destined for a land beyond the Grey Mountain, far from Glome. In fact, she has never felt truly at home in Glome. This aspect of religious belief - longing for another world- is once used by Lewis elsewhere as proof that humankind was created for another world. Orual, in typical fashion, interprets Psyche s longing for the far kingdom as a threat against their own relationship, giving in to the omnipresent urge to selfish, and self-centered, love. " Ah Psyche, I said ... I was to come to I felt like a bird in a cage when the other birds of its kind are flying home. " (TWHF, pg. 74) This idea of the Christian being destined for another world is one found not only by Lewis. Dietrich Bonhaffer , the German theologian martyred for his anti-Nazi stance during Hitler era also stressed the other worldly element of Christianity as a separating force, dividing ...
- 2293: The History of the Automobile
- The History of the Automobile The automobile it is made around the world by many different company’s with even more different models. The automobile is one of the main piecese of our daily lives. Today it can play a major role in anybody’s life around the world. From day one people were trying to lighten the load that they would have to do. Anything from an animal such as a horse or a mule to human beings have been used to lighten ... project before the development of the car. Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863, in Dearborn Michigan. He was the son of two Irish imigrants. No one expected Ford to revolutionize the Nation or the world with his invention but he did. He had quit school at the age of 15 and by the age of 16 he had created a steam threshing machine. By the age of 17 he ...
- 2294: Utah's State Symbols
- ... rock that can be ignited and burned to produce heat and electricity. Coalburning power plants supply about half of the electricity used in the United States and nearly two-thirds of that used throughout the world. Utah coal deposits are found primarily in Carbon and Emery Counties of Central Utah. Animal The Rock Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis) became the official state animal in 1971. A member of the deer family, the ... state leaders to top the dome of the Utah State Capitol. It was selected in 1994 as the State Mineral for the Beehive State. Utah is one of the leading copper producing areas of the world. The larges open pit copper mine in the world is located in Bingham Canyon near Salt Lake City. Centennial Logo and Slogan This logo was used for the 1996 Utah Centennial along with the slogan "This Is Still The Right Place." The logo ...
- 2295: Beethoven
- ... hearts of men. (Marek, 634) These words of compassion come from J. W. N. Sullivan during Ludwig van Beethoven s funeral. They express the regret and sense of loss felt by people all over the world as they caught news of his end. Beethoven was and is a cornerstone for music of all kinds in that he combined new color, imagination, structure and expression to further capitulate the evolution of this great form of art. Beethoven was not only a great musician, but also a modest, caring sole. His music brought inspiration and illumination ... the 18th century when the age of curiosity was prominent. Society at the time was beginning to question many old beliefs, customs, and religions. There were advances in astronomy, geography and chemistry, proving that the world was ready for a revolution of innovation and excitement. Beethoven was born on December 17, 1770 in Bonn, Germany. Bonn was a pleasant city. It was very old and very rich in tradition. Its ...
- 2296: Andy Warhol And Pop Art
- The pop art movement began in London during the 1950's and then quickly spread throughout nearly all of the industrialized world. Although the artists did have some overlapping styles, pop art focuses more on the subject and less on style, which was left up to each individual artist. The main themes that is evident in all ... the images and techniques of mass media, advertising, and popular culture, often in an ironic way to play off the social issues of popular culture. The art form developed rapidly once reaching the U.S. New York City, often viewed as the epicenter of American popular culture, fostered the growth of many of the most highly regarded pop artists, including Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal and Lichtenstein. California, namely San Fransisco was recognized as the Pop Art capital of the west coast (Bourdon, 1989, 12) Subject The subject of Warhol's work revolved around various American social issues of the mid-century. As America exited from World War II and entered the Baby Boom era, the culture had become decidedly sanitized. Some of this could be attributed to the Cold War and fear of the "enemy". The flight to suburbia, mass ...
- 2297: Industrial Revolution 3
- ... has not been fully understood or explained since. All of these factors paved the way forward for a rapid rate of economic and social growth. Which spurred on the industrialisation of our country. Development of New Energy Conversion Machines The very first machines to be produced at the start of the industrial revolution were used in the textile industry. These machines utilised the waterpower from rivers and millponds to drive the ... voltages across the country whereas before there had been chaotic variations in voltages and frequencies of supply and use. The use of electricity in factories after this standardisation led to the increased production of the new transport industries. The manufacture of bicycles, aircraft, and most predominantly the motor car increased with the utilisation of all forms of electrically powered machines. There were also increases in all forms of electrical engineering from ... Petrochemicals The British coal industry was the major contributor to the Industrial Revolution. The industry utilised the first steam powered engines of Newcommen and many more that followed. As production grew from these applications the new railways were used to transport the vast amounts of coal being produced. In 1830 steam power could wind men and coal up and down a few hundred feet. By the 1860s there were pithead ...
- 2298: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... 658) Carver's life, or biography, bares a little insight into his phases, or different stages in which he wrote his different types of stories and poems. Carver lived most of his life in a world which could not provide the luxury of spiritual affirmation. He grew up in Clatskanie, Oregon to working class-parents in a alcoholic home where reading material was limited to Zane Gray novels, and the newspaper ... and removed two-thirds of his left lung, later the cancer moved to his brain where he underwent chemotherapy treatments. In early June, the cancer reappeared. On August 2, 1988 Raymond Carver died in his new house in Port Angeles, Washington. In an interview with critic William Stull, he explains about a connection between fiction and reality. I'm interested in the personal intimate relationships in life so why not deal ... verbal and nonverbal. Touch is important because it presents concrete evidence of a spiritual and emotional connection. It is within this scope, and demand in writing that Carvers stories really draw the reader within the world of the story. A much deeper emotional feeling is felt when a connection amongst the characters is reached. The story, " The Bridle" uses touch to instigate verbal communication. The story unveils as a woman ...
- 2299: Islam More Than A Religion
- By: wallid E-mail: waldino20@hotmail.com Islam More Than A Religion Despite its huge following around the world and the growing Muslim communities in the United States, Islam is foreign to most Americans who are familiar with Christianity or Judaism. Because most Americans know little or nothing about Islam, they have many misconceptions about Muslim beliefs and rituals. The negative image many people in the United States and Europe have of Islam and the Muslim world has a long history. Many have judged Islam without making an effort to consider this religious tradition on its own terms, without bothering to become acquainted with its teaching and the ways in which Muslims ... in Arabia, in the 7th century A.D. The term Islam virtually means “surrender”. Within Islam the believer (called a Muslim) use the Arabic word for God, Allah, to refer to the creator of the world and of all life within it. Allah is viewed as the sole God----creator, sustained, and restorer of the world. The will of Allah, to which man must submit, is made known through the ...
- 2300: The Asian Crisis
- ... mid-1997 has led to sharp declines in the currencies, stock markets, and other asset prices of a number of Asian countries. It is hard to understand what these declines will actually do to the world market. This decline is expected to halve the rate of world growth in 1998 from the four percent that was projected pre-crisis to an estimated outcome of about 2 percent. The countries that are included in the East Asian crisis, known as "Tiger" economies, are ... its overcapacity and its lack of growth to the West, particularly to the US. History The past ten or fifteen years have seen an unprecedented expansion in the extent to which the countries of the world are tied together, both by instant communication and by international trade, institutions, and markets, including financial markets. On the whole, this process of globalization has been an enormously positive development. It has opened new ...
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