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- 1441: Louis Pasteur 2
- PASTEUR, Louis (1822-95). The French chemist Louis Pasteur devoted his life to solving practical problems of industry, agriculture, and medicine. His discoveries have saved countless lives and created new wealth for the world. Among his discoveries are the pasteurization process ... theory. He spent much time proving to doubting scientists that germs do not originate spontaneously in matter but enter from the outside. Developing Cures for Agricultural Diseases In 1865 Pasteur was asked to help the French silk industry, which was near ruin as a result of a mysterious disease that attacked the silkworms. After intensive research, he discovered that two diseases were involved, both caused by bacteria on the mulberry leaves ...
- 1442: Freedom in the United States
- ... ratification of the Constitution. Less than a decade after the Bill of Rights had been adopted it met its first serious challenge. In 1798, there was a threat of war with France and thousands of French refugees were living in the United States. Many radicals supported the French cause and were considered "incompatible with social order." This hysteria led Congress to enact several alien and sedition laws. One law forbade the publication of false, scandalous or malicious writing against the government, Congress or ...
- 1443: Computers
- ... 1); ON-OFF (2); or ON-ON (3). II. WHERE IT ALL BEGAN a) The Mother of all Calculators The first adding machine, a precursor of the digital computer, was devised in 1642 by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal. This device employed a series of ten-toothed wheels, each tooth representing a digit from 0 to 9. The wheels were connected so that numbers could be added to each other by advancing the wheels by a correct number of teeth. In the 1670s the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz improved on this machine by devising one that could also multiply. The French inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard , in designing an automatic loom, used thin, perforated wooden boards to control the weaving of complicated designs. During the 1880s the American statistician Herman Hollerith conceived the idea of using perforated ...
- 1444: Irony Moll Flanders
- ... preoccupation with "being a gentlewoman" is further developed as we are told of her receiving an education beyond her station in life. Moll continues to persist in her superiority: "I learned to dance and speak French as well as any of them, and to sing much better... " But Moll never appears to us as someone who can speak French or even sing and dance, for Defoe has no concept of this kind of character, and Moll's overwhelming materialism and pragmatism quickly suppress such qualities. But her desire to be considered a "gentle woman ...
- 1445: Machines: Are They Helpful Or Too Much Trouble?
- Machines: Are They Helpful Or Too Much Trouble? The historiography and various phases of the Industrial Revolution were very important. Population increase and the expansion of capital, credit and commerce were one of the phases. The role of entrepreneurs, workers and inventions in boosting production were another phase. Textiles, coal, transport and ... from underground floods. As population grew, people moved into urban areas. This was a very big problem, crimes and diseases increased, sometimes twenty families had to share the same toilets and water pumps. The industrial revolution had many problems, but here are some solutions I would propose. I would have limited work, better wages, and more windows, the people sometimes got lung cancer and suffocated from too much smoke. The children ...
- 1446: Seeing Through Salvador Dalν's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
- ... is the male equivalent of his mother's name while Jacinto came from his uncle. The family lived in a small, rural town called Figueres in Spain. It was sixteen miles south of the Spanish-French border, being fed by the Tech and Ter rivers. Dalν's photographic memory consumed this scenery for later use in many of his paintings. He was horrifically indifferent towards his education at the Christian Brothers' Immaculate Conception primary school which likely gave him ample time to expand his imagination. Perhaps the only knowledge he acquired while being taught there was the French language. This was the sole language spoken at the school, and he was forced to adapt to the communication. The first flame of creativity was sparked by Siegfrid Burmann, who gave Dalν his first set ...
- 1447: The Recent Negative Effect of Technology on Society
- The Recent Negative Effect of Technology on Society Mr. Ingram Ever since the Industrial revolution, technology has been changing at a fast pace. People are always wanting a better lifestyle therefore there is always something new arising so humans can cope with their physical environment. One of the most important ... land. The need for transportation brought vehicles into the market. The need for employees brought mechanical robots into society. Battles over land brought on the need for sophisticated weapons. The agricultural system brought on a revolution. The invention of the television can bring media and other forms of entertainment into your house with video and audio combined. Before 1950, newspapers and radio were the only ways to bring media or entertainment ...
- 1448: Teenagers of the Sixties and Today
- ... were rioting on college campuses, African Americans were rioting in the streets and an unpopular war was going on in Southeast Asia. There was the Free Speech Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the sexual revolution. Marijuana and LSD, illegal drugs virtually unheard of a decade before, were becoming commonplace among teenagers. The country was in turmoil and on the brink of revolution. College students were rebelling as evidenced by growing their hair long and wearing tie-dyed shirts. Have teenagers changed in the last thirty years? There are no more campus protests. Tie-dyed shirts seem to ...
- 1449: Marie Curie
- ... degree in mathematics in 1894. She finally received her doctorate in 1903 and study mathematics, chemistry and physics in France. She became the first women to study and teach at the Sorbonnen. She adopted the French spelling of her name in France and met her future husband, Pierre, a French physicist, who taught at the university of Paris. They married and teamed up to conduct research on radioactivity and found that uranium ore, or pitchblende, contained much more radioactivity than could be explained solely by ...
- 1450: Walt Whitman and His Poetry
- ... taught. When he was seventeen, he became a teacher in a small school. Five years later he took a job as a journalist and was the editor of many New York papers. He studied the French language, and many of his poems contain French words. When he traveled to the New Orleans, he witnessed slavery which in turn helped him write his poems according to Walt Whitman. Between 1848 and 1855 he developed the style of poetry he is ...
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