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    Nikola Tesla was a phenomenal engineer and inventor, who may have had some mental issues but never let that prevent him from doing amazing things. My interest in Nikola Tesla comes from his work including electric power. As an electrical engineer I am obviously interested in electricity myself. When he was nineteen years of age he started studying electrical engineering at Polytechnic Institute at Graz in Austria. There he was an excellent student. In June of 1884, Tesla traveled to New York…

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    They represent what America truly is, which is strong, hardworking, and independent. One person who encompasses all of these traits is a man named Thomas Alva Edison. Thomas Edison is an engineer and inventor best known for his work involving the light bulb. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1931. He was the last child born to Samuel Ogden Edison and Nancy Matthews Elliot. He was born the youngest of seven. He and his family grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. Edison was first exposed…

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    They say that the sweetest victory is the one that’s most difficult. I didn’t believe defeat was necessary to succeed in life. I thought that if we failed, we failed. We can’t do anything more to overcome our failures. Over the years I’ve learned that failure is just a stepping stone towards success. I learned that we must drive, dig deeper, and have a lot of determination to reach our goals in life. We will have those people in our lives telling us, “It’s impossible.” or “You might fail, and…

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    Nikola Tesla's Obsession

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    Nikola Tesla is widely regarded as one of the greatest inventing minds of the 20th century. Throughout his life, Tesla's obsession over his work allowed him to make numerous contributions to the world of electricity, many of which helped to usher in the high tech era which we are accustomed to today. Most people are aware of at least one of his discoveries, whether it is alternating current, wireless communication, or wireless controlling, but few people are aware that Tesla may have made…

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    Security Window Tinting

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    individuals use it for unlawful things like attaching in a tinted auto, offering drugs, perpetrating violations like assaults, homicide, burglary and some more. There are a few laws that permit just the utilization of tints which have certain Unmistakable Light Transmission (VLT). For instance in India, the Engine Vehicle Act permits tints which have 70% VLT. In the US in the condition of Alabama, tints with 32% VLT is still…

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    Auguste Lumiere and Louis Lumiere were two brothers who worked together in developing the first motion picture. The oldest brother, Auguste Lumiere was born on October 19, 1862 and Louis Lumiere was born on October 5, 1864 in France. They gained inspiration from their father, Antoine Lumiere, as he ran a business of manufacturing and supplying photographic equipment. In addition both brothers attended Technical School as they were really bright in the science field. Since the Lumiere brothers…

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    Finally he tried and tried harder and it worked! He discovered many things about the lightning rod and electricity like, when he put a metal key under lighting and touched the key, he got zapped. He then realized how he can use electricity to make light and heat sources. According to History.com, during the american revolution Benjamin Franklin was part of five-member committee that helped draft the Declaration of Independence, in which the 13 american colonies declared of their freedom from…

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    Introduction Photosynthesis is the process in which light energy is converted into chemical energy in plants and other organisms (Reece, 2011). Photosynthesis is a redox reaction where carbon dioxide is reduced to sugar (glucose) and water is oxidized to oxygen (Reece, 2011). The reaction that occurs during photosynthesis is shown through the empirical equation CO2 + H2O → (CH2O)N + O2 (Stegenga, 2015). Photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplasts of plant cells, specifically within the thylakoid…

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    from the cold, windy weather of winter. If you look closely next to the window, you see Christmas things such as Christmas lights and Christmas tree. So that means, the setting also takes place during Christmas time. Then, you see the person recording the music on a phone. After that, the person is drinking something around the fire in his chair with an…

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    During the late 1800’s, a significantly large amount of inventors, engineers and futurists emerged. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. His passion for electrical engineer was instigated by his mother, Djuka Mandic, who built him numerous gadgets while he was growing up. While Tesla has attending the University of Prague in Graz, Austria, he became acquainted with the Gramme dynamo, which was used as an add-on generator in manufacturing and farming machinery. Tesla took…

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