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Longitude by Dava Sobel

of the same size, so they all converge at the ends of the earth" (2). Another pertinent difference that Sobel points out...

Telephone Invention and Its Historical Impact

In eight pages this paper explores the telephone's invention in a consideration of the changes that resulted and its global impact...

Early Manufacturing and Nikola Tesla

Of all Teslas inventions and refinements, perhaps electric motors and wireless communication had the greatest impact on manufactur...

Radar's Role in World War II

the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...

1940s' Scientific and Technological Developments

The discovery in the 1940s that ticks are attracted to a cloth which had been impregnated with the scent of a dog (Miller, 1996), ...

The Nitroglycerin Invention and Alfred Nobel

In a paper consisting of seven pages Nobel's invention of dynamite and the ways it was used scientifically and industrially along ...

Media and Inventions of Thomas Edison

In ten pages this paper uses the lifestyle of the Amish as an example of a consideration as to whether or not society has been imp...

Printing Press and WWW Information Sharing

In five pages the inventions of the printing press and the Internet are contrasted and compared. There are 6 sources cited in the...

Digital Communication Evolution

In five pages the ways in which digital communications have evolved since the Morse code invention to complex digital voice and te...

Radio and its History

In five pages this research paper discusses Marconi's invention of the radio in an historical overview that includes its 'Golden A...

History of TV Technology

and current events. Television has of course been significantly refined from those very first efforts at image transmission...

Venture Capitalist Factors and Items

than likely that funding will not be forthcoming. This is not to say that the business plan should be overly long, however....

Invention of Incandescent Light

light bulbs, and more. It was like a big jigsaw puzzle--and Edison made up the pieces as well as fitted them together".2 A light...

How Technological Progress Has Improved Society

In eight pages this paper discusses various inventions to illustrate how technology especially in transportation and communication...

Post First World War Technology

spurring private industry; both the military and private enterprise then feed each other with information and inspiration. When ...

Comparison of the Inventions of Computers and Trains

This essay consists of fifteen pages and considers whether the computer or the train was the more significant invention in terms o...

Cocaine and its History

"stimulant, aid to digestion, aphrodisiac and life-extender" (Appelboom, 1991)....

US Society and Television's Impact

television," 2006). He had already been given a patent for "the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and ra...

Harvard Business School 9-679-089 Case Study

increased vocabulary and provided for versions in French, German, Spanish and British English(Burgleman, et al 1996). The Speak an...

Battleship Technology and its Combat Relevance

quite awhile. Philosophers of every time period have looked at war and tried to find a theory to explain it (Honderich, 1995). Her...

Religion and Emily Dickinson

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...

Analysis of a Margaret Mead Article

the result of mans nature and seeing it as the result of a struggle between developing societies: that, Mead says, is the idea of ...

Ondaatje and Lee, Immigrant Experience

in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...

The Printing Press

make a huge difference. One author notes, for example how "The dissemination of information suddenly became easy, affordable, acce...

Comparing Blake's "Lamb" to Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz"

A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...

Painting and the Invention of Photography

their work. Delacroix was known for aiming at capturing the "essence" of what he viewed rather then presenting his subject in trul...

Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

Was Couture Clothing As Popular In The 19th Century As It Is Today?

also known as haute couture - plays an historical role in the manner by which fashion has come to reflect an individuals social, p...

HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES

In the late 15th century, accounting became a specific science, thanks to the words of Luca Pacioli. Pacioli, a mathematician and ...

GERMANY, TECHNOLOGY AND THE GUTENBERG PRINTING PRESS

country (History of Germany). The Hanseatic towns, as they were eventually termed (they eventually became the Hanseatic League), e...