Morgan realized the firefighters were struggling to breathe. He had just invented the lifesaving gas mask. In 1914, Morgan was awarded the patent for his safety hood and smoke protection. Two years later, he polished a model of his early gas mask and was awarded a gold medal at the International Exposition of Sanitation and Safety and also the International Association of Fire Chiefs. His invention was tested during the Lake Erie Crib Disaster in 1916.…
Sadia Usman Professor Acoppola Lit237 10/27/2014 In the seventeenth century, scientist and philosophers were lacking the instruments to make observations and further their experiments. The seventeenth century was also known as the scientific revolution. During the scientific revolution, philosophers mainly confided in people from the church and the ancient world. Before the scientific revolution, the Europeans were uneducated about science.…
Summary of Lavoisier’s Memoir on Combustion in General Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was an 18th century French chemist who worked as a member of the the French Academy of Sciences. In the excerpts of Lavoisier’s Memoir on Combustion in General, he introduces to the other members of the Academy his idea of oxygen and its role in how combustion and calcination occurs. He also explains why the original theory of phlogiston, proposed by Georg Ernst Stahl, is not adequate to explain the two phenomenas. Lavoisier first explained his theory by briefly stating laws concerning combustion as well as calcination of metals. He says that these laws are included in Stahl’s phlogiston theory but Lavoisier points out some aspects of it that don’t offer adequate…
Development of the steel industry was boosted by discovery of the Bessemer process. ("Second Industrial Revolution") Henry Bessemer and William Kelly drastically reduced the cost and time needed in producing steel from pig-iron. They found out that that blasting air through molten iron produced high quality steel. Steel was widely used in construction of buildings, because it provided good support for skyscrapers and tall towers.…
The Compromise of 1950 was made to avert a possible Civil War. The Compromise stated when a state was admitted, it was either a slave or free state and another would be free if the first one was a slave state, and vice versa. National Women’s Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court. After being brought to free territory by his owner, Scott sued for his freedom.…
Planets and the stars have always fascinated me. Finding out how they were discovered is fascinating. We know that William Hershcel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781. But, how did it happen? He was using his telescope to check for “’double stars’—two stars that are so close together that, without proper magnification, they look like one star”.…
The Invention of Wings is a New York Times Bestselling historical fiction novel written by the renowned author, Sue Monk Kidd. With an intriguing storyline, brilliant characterization, and a unique composition, this exceptional novel shows it deserves its immeasurable acclaim. The story follows the lives of a Sarah Grimke and one of her family’s slaves, Hetty “Handful” Grimke. Sarah begins the story as a very precocious young girl who often breaks traditional norms and is looked down upon because of it. Through the book, she grows up to be a very passionate and ambitious woman.…
John Dalton was born Sep 6, 1766 in a modest Quaker family in Cumberland, England. John always strived for a good education, but his family was very poor. When he was 12 he taught at the school he went to. When John was 14 he spent a year working as a farmhand, but went back to teaching at a boarding school in Kendal. Four years later and he was made principal of the school.…
Second, in the 18th century Edward Jenner discovered…
Fluorine is a gas. Fluorine was discovered by Henri Moissanin 1886. Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan was a French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Moissan was one of the original members of the International Atomic Weights Committee. He died in February 20 1907.…
In the reading of The Age of Discovery, the aspiration to explore the undisclosed has been a driving force in history since the beginning of time. From the initial archived accounts, old civilizations have studied the world around them. Early escapades were influenced by religious faiths, a wish for conquest, a hunger for gold, and the need for trade. The great Age of Discovery, beginning in the 1400s, was a significant era in the development and discovery of lands yet not known to the Europeans. During this time, Europe sought new sea paths to Asia in following of economic control and opportunities to spread Christianity.…
I found the invention of an Orii to be fascinating because it is an invention that seems to only be possible in movies. The Orii captivated me when I heard that it is able to function due to bone conduction. To be more specific, once someone places their finger on their ear, vibrations will be sent through their bones directly from the finger to the ear. Not only does Orii have the ability to work through bone conduction, but also Orii has Google assistant and Siri. This device has almost everything someone could possibly need in a day.…
She is known as one of the greatest female, top selling poets in American History, Mary Oliver wrote the poem “oxygen”, which was released in her collection as one of the forty-three poems written in her book Thirst. Written during a time she was going through the loss of a loved one, Mary writes “Oxygen” to express her gratitude toward her relationship. The poem is short and simple, yet is deep as it uses the idea of oxygen to represent love and life. “Oxygen” is written about two people, one of whom is ill and living on a breathing machine. The other person is explaining the importance of their love for the ill person and describing the need of love, to the need for oxygen.…
In today’s day and age, plastic surgery is extremely popular, especially breast augmentations. About 4% of women in America get breast augmentation each year. One of the options for breast augmentation is silicon implants. That being said I wanted to learn more about silicon and what people are putting in their bodies. Silicon is an element a pure substance that can’t be broken down.…
The telegraph was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse, assisted by Alfred Vail. Two inventions helped Morse propel his invention to success. First, in 1800, the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) invented the battery, which reliably stored an electric current and allowed the current to be used in a controlled environment. Second, in 1820, the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) demonstrated the connection between…