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Nineteenth Century Inventions

Inc., 2003). As an example we note that such inventors of the Middle Ages "could not generalize from a water wheel to the theory o...

Economic Growth and Inventions

1836. The beginning of this coincides wit the revival of the economy and the return to prosperity. The end of this increase is see...

Sewing Machine and its Influence

to adorn the body. Yet, at the time that the sewing machine was developed, the nation was readying itself for war. In fact, the ma...

Porto Cath as the Twentieth Century's Greatest Invention

members who experienced cancer. One, the elder, did not have the option to receive a port cath due to their non-existence. The mot...

Social Impact of the Telegraph Machine's Invention

have had no idea the significant impact his communications device would one day have upon the entire global community. "Morses in...

Neo Aristotelian Analysis of President Ronald Reagan and the Challenger Space Shuttle Tragedy

disaster. It was his administration, after all, that had been intent on having the Shuttle be declared operational while it was i...

Growing up in a Multicultural Background

wife and mother but also serving as the cultural interpreter for her four daughters and husband as they make the transition from l...

TV's History, Development, and Cultural Contributions

they have so come to believe that a meaningful life is tied to what and how many products they purchase (pp. 112). Furthermore, Co...

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...

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 ...

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), ...

Microwave Invention

by Dr. Percy Spencer of the Raytheon Corporation to have the capability of melting certain objects (UCSB, 2002). When Dr. Spencer...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

The Printing Press

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

Grade Retention 20th Century Events

These researchers report that just 5 percent of 169 studies analyzed reported significant benefits for the retained students while...

Using the Disruptive Incident Barometer for Functional Behavioral Assessment

period(s): Third grade school day. Number of levels of incident barometer: 20 (baseline of 12). Present baseline data across 5 da...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

The History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

there was nothing else to help to that end. Another important thing that occurred is that in Paris, the doctors would begin to qua...

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...

Sequoyah and His Invention of Cherokee Syllabary

He even became known by the names George Gist and George Guess and served in the US Army in the Creek War yet he never learned ...

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...

Mead on Warfare

that the tendency to engage in wars is a human invention, and that the inevitable result of innate human tendencies or instincts. ...

From the Invention of the Automobile to the Kent State Massacre

1. How did the mass production of the automobile affect...