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- 1121: Thomas Edison and His Inventions
- ... was pulled back beneath the stylus. In December 1877 Edison unveiled the tinfoil phonograph, which replaced the strip of paper wrapped in tinfoil. Many people would not believe what 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 ... to be the best-known American in the world. When he died he was the venerated and mourned as the man who, more than any other, had laid the basis for the technological and social revolution of the modern electrical world.
- 1122: Charles Dickens
- ... the “Circumlocution Office.” A Tale of Two Cities (1859) was the second of his most famous novels. It is set in London and Paris and tells of the heroism of fictional Sidney Caron during the French Revolution. Critics don’t highly rank this book. In Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens returned to his light-hearted sense of humor. This novel tells of an unknown person who provides the young hero Pip with ...
- 1123: Eighteenth Century Philosophers
- Eighteenth Century Philosophers After the French Revolution many men began a search for a utopian society, one which would allow justice and happiness for all who resided there. It was not only a search for these men, but a lifelong goal, for ...
- 1124: Alexander Hamilton
- ... West Indies. The date of his birth is still argued among scholars. They believe that he was born sometime in between 1755 and 1756 but the exact date is unknown. His mother, a Huguenot or French catholic, was named Rachel Faucett lavien. His Father was a Scotsman named James Hamilton. His father abandoned him along with his brother James and his mom in 1765. The first written record of Alexander Hamilton ... for Hamilton. He would often have long fact finding missions before he came to a decision. Hamilton in his new home in New York could not pick up his newspaper without finding articles about the revolution. He would find both pro and con articles. It was not long before Hamilton put his two cents into the whole matter. After reading a pamphlet written by a loyalist who criticized the continental congress ...
- 1125: Antoine Lavoisier
- ... chemical reaction, the quantity of the matter is the same at the end as at the beginning of every chemical reaction. This gave experimental evidence of the law of composition of matter. He was a French chemist and physicist. Along with his proposed oxygen theory of combustion, his classification of substances is the basis of distinction between chemical elements and compounds. With other French chemists he devised a system of chemical nomenclature that now serves as the basis of the modern system of elements. He clarified the concept of an element as a “simple substance that could not be ... means are elements to us.” His proposed oxygen theory discredited the phlogiston theory and described oxygen’s role in respiration. Antoine Lavoisier lived a monumental life and in his attempt to introduce reforms in the French monetary and taxation system and in farming methods, as one of the farmers-general, he was arrested and tried by the revolutionary tribunal. He was guillotined on May 8, 1774 during the Reign of ...
- 1126: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- ... Darwin received an Anglican education. Medical training at Edinburgh University proved unsuccessful, but he loved beach combing with Dr Robert E. Grant, a sponge expert, Lamarckian evolutionist, a democrat and materialist, who trained Darwin in French-style invertebrate anatomy. At student clubs, where Darwin reported his observations, he saw fiery radicals censored for calling the mind a product of a material brain, and giving animals all of the human mental faculties ... religious platform as a direct threat to the authority and basis of command of the monarchy. Further, the upsetting of the balance of social power and elimination of the status quo may lead to a revolution by the lower levels of the social strata and an anarchical breakdown of class structure. The businessmen and nobles might be overtaken by the mobs of the have-nots and for an island nation located ...
- 1127: Napoleon Bonaparte
- Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Corsica, an island off the coast of Italy. Only three months before he was born the island became french possession. It is interesting to imagine how things might have been different for Napoleon, France, and Europe if Cosica had not been french territory. Napoleon, who rose from humble origins to become Emporor of France, was sent as a child of five to a school for girls. His mother hoped that Napoleon would become less stubborn and easier ... sum of twenty thousand francs as a token of his gratitude for what he has learned. As a student, Napoleon devoured books of all kinds. When he was finally admitted on a scholarship to a French military academy and later to the Military College of France, his reading enabled him to stay near the top of his class. Napoleons career was one metoric rise from poverty to power, and then ...
- 1128: Death Of Pol Pot
- ... area brings to an end one of the most bloody days of the twentieth century. Pol Pot was born in Saloth Sar in Kampong Thom Province. At that time Cambodia was a Buddist kingdom under French control. His family had royal connection. Sar had a strict, sheltered childhood. In 1934 he joined his brother at the palace compound in Phnom Pech, Cambodia capital, and spent a year in a roual monastery followed by six year in an elite Catholic School. In 1948 Sar went to study radio electricity in Paris. There he joined the French Communist Party. Self- effacing and charming, he kept company with Khieu Ponnary first Khemer women to get a Bachelor degree. They married in 1956. Sr student friends included Khieu Samphan, Leng Sary, and Son Sen ... mean “ Original Cmbodian.” stood out. Sar later change his name to Pol Pot. A movement for independence from France was gaining strength, and Pol joined the Cambodian and Vietnamese Communists who were fighting in the French in a common cause. The Vietnamese taught Pot how to organize peasants for resistance. But Pol felt this was a patronizing slight for someone rasied in the palace, and this, combined with his failure ...
- 1129: Sir Isaac Newton
- Sir Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton, the culminating figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century, was born on December 25, 1642 (according to the Julian calendar then in use: the date was January 4, 1643, according to the Gregorian calendar in use today), in the manor ... Principia is the greatest scientific book ever written. In the same year, 1687, Newton helped lead Cambridge's resistance to the efforts of King James to make the university a Catholic institution. After the English Revolution in 1688, which drove James from England, the university elected Newton one of its representatives in a special convening of the country's parliament. The following four years were filled with intense activity for Newton ... was knighted (1708) by Queen Anne, the first scientist to be so honored for his work. Newton died in London on Mar. 31 (N.S.; Mar. 20, O.S.), 1727, having singlehandedly completed the scientific revolution and molded much of the content and the image of modern science. Works Cited 1. Microsoft, Encarta 97 Encyclopedia. 2. 1997 Grolier, multimedia encyclopedia. 3. Christianson, G. E., in the Presence of the Creator: ...
- 1130: Napoleon
- Napoleon The main controversy over Napoleon is if he was a friend or enemy to the French People of Europe. While still today, even after much interrogation, people believe that he destroyed “civil liberties”. Others, believe that he was one of the greatest historical figures and saved France from losing order. Being ... into the aristocracy. Napoleon received an excellent education, and even at a young age excelling in military training and math, a necessary trait for victorious fighting. When he was just a teen, Napoleon joined the French army and was soon after promoted to Captain. Within a year of being Captain he conquered Toulon, which was responsible for him being honored as brigadier general at only 24. This man knew from the ... to honor and serve his fellow citizens. In 1804 this great legend crowned himself Emperor. Amazingly, after this point in time is when his tributes really become great. When he received full power over the French people, France was in total chaos. Creating the North Bank of Financial, and simplifying the legal code is truly only scratching the surface of his actions. The people instantly loved him because he reopened ...
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