1908

Flight has always been the dream of men. Since the time of Chinese military kites, mankind has utilized the air as a method of war, exploration, travel, and thrill. Pushed to the side were women. Before 1908, no woman had ever soloed in an airplane. In September of 1908, Thérèse Peltier, a French woman, set that record with a 200 metre flight in a Voison boxwite at Turin, Italy. Two years later, two women in the United States would follow Peltier into the sky: Blaunche Stuart Scott and Bessie…

T which appeared in 1908 (Burgan 4). Late in 1880, Ford took a job at the Detroit Dry Dock Company, the largest shipbuilder in Detroit (Burgan 10). In 1891, he took a job as an engineer working for the Edison Illuminating Company where , in 1893, he was promoted to chief engineer (Henry Ford 1). Ford developed his plans for a horseless carriage, and in 1896, he constructed his first model, the Ford Quadricycle (Henry Ford 1). Ford introduced the Model T in October of 1908, and for several…

relatively tumultuous time in terms of the social and economic atmosphere. At the time, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire was Sultan Abdul Hamid I. He was a religious man, as evidenced by his reforms. He built the Istanbul-Madinah railway, which opened in 1908 and was meant to make it easier for Muslims to carry out…

make it clear that education begins with teaching the sense of shame. Nitobe said the “”You will be laughed at," "It will disgrace you," "Are you not ashamed?" were the last appeal to correct behavior on the part of a youthful delinquent” (Nitobe, 1908, p.41). We can find similarities in stories about the ancient warriors, the…

Edward Alexander MacDowell (1861-1908) was a pianist and composer. He was among the first American composers to receive an international reputation, and by the late 19th century he was considered the greatest composer of the United States. On December 18, 1861, MacDowell was born into an upper-middle-class family in New York City. During his childhood he showed great potential as a musician and began piano lessons at eight years old. When he was fifteen he was taken by his mother to go…

supporter of social reform. I switched to the liberal party in 1904 because I didn't believe that the Conservative party was committed to social justice. I was elected a member of parliament in 1908, and I was appointed to the Prime Minister's cabinet as the president of the Board and Trade. Also in 1908, I introduced several reforms for the prison system. I also introduced the first minimum wage, and helped set up labor exchanges for the unemployed. I helped in the passing of the…

n 1887 the British historian and politician, Lord Acton wrote “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” In the next half century this was proven true by the corruption of the ideals of revolutions across Europe leading to tyrannical regimes in the place of the oppressors they reviled. At the end of World War One, Europe was wracked by revolution caused by the death of empires. This seismic shift was felt strongest in Russia though at this time all of Europe of was in a…

automobile on October 1, 1908. It was this single creation that changed America forever. Henry Ford’s automobile changed travel in America forever. Before cars, people would mostly travel by use of carriage wagons, and bicycles. Eventually, people used trains to travel; however, there wasn’t an abundance of railroads for trains to be used everywhere. The automobiles were the perfect source of travel; unfortunately, they were too expensive for most people. “At the beginning of 1908, there…

believe that an honorable person is Ernest Rutherford because of his important scientific contributions in the early 20th Century. Some of the things he did in order to become such an honorable person was by receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908, and being knighted in 1914 (Ernest Rutherford). Ernest Rutherford was known as the “Father of the Nuclear Age” (Ernest Rutherford A&E Television Network). He was called this because of his study of radioactivity, later leading to the…

George Santayana (1863-1952) [Madrid, Harvard, Rome]. A poet and essayist as well as a philosopher, George is an outstanding representative of Critical Realism, a form of naturalism. The objects of knowledge occupy either of two statuses; they may be existing substances or subsisting essences, though it is impossible to prove the independent existence of either type of object. Santayana stated that we believe in the objectivity of substance on the basis of animal faith. The ultimate substance…