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    studied engineering, inventing, art, and architecture. Leonardo became an apprentice of Verrocchio. They both worked together and painted the “ Baptism of Christ”. Leonardo Da Vinci discovered and invented many machines. Three of these discoveries/inventions was were underneath the engineering process. The first of these discoveries was the tank. The tank wasn’t like the ones we have today. This tank had a circus tent…

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    Located in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley is Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest development of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10,000 B.C. It has established some of the most important developments in human history including the wheel, cursive, math, and astronomy. Their culture extended out to the Middle East and the Indus Valley. Mesopotamia is considered the beginning of civilization. Sumer, the first civilization, consisted of city-states. Rulers of these city-states of…

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    Automobile The automobile is what made the roaring twenties boom. Henry Ford was the inventor of the automobile in 1919, and it had a major impact on others and their families. In the everyday life of an American, this invention affected everyone more than anything else. An assembly line is a sequence of workers where everyone has their own tasks to speed up the building process. Ford came up with this idea for faster production in manufacturing the product called the Automobile.…

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    and the public. Joseph Schumpeter, writer of Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942), introduces some key concepts in understanding the culture of how innovation influences a capitalist society and the influence on the products preceding an invention. When it comes to new innovative products and ideas, most people in society find the innovations to be useful. Joseph Schumpeter argues that too much…

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    Fulton was striving for the top and he us his charm that work both on men and women to helps him get sponsorship for his invention. Robert Fulton was an intelligent person who know to promote himself to interested other, which he meets with rich people like Joel and Ruth Barlow and Paris who supplied him with his invention. In 1802, he was introduced to Robert Livingston, who was on a mission to negotiate with Napoleon for America to sail the lower Mississippi territory…

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    As a child, I recall playing on a rotary phone and spinning the dial wheel repeatedly as I imagined I was calling my grandmother. Eventually, the technology in telephones changed and the invention of the push button phones came about; however, they were not near as fun to play on as the rotary dial. The next step in the evolution of the phone came in the form of a hands-free unit, and eventually, the cell phone. This new technology has been instrumental in the growth of the telecommunication…

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    Shaping The Automotive Industry The Influences of modern design on the automotive industry has been mapped from 1885 till the present day. The first vehicle came with no outer shell was only an engine and a three wheels, exposing all the mechanics for easy access; the functionality was more important than the looks. Latter automobile industry was influenced by many factors and aesthetics including what was in style relating to fashion, makeup, movies, architecture, popular culture, and…

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    that meets the eyes? The invention of cars has affected the economy and even the culture of many countries including the United States. One might ask, how has the invention of cars affected the modern world that we know today? First of all, cars have been around for longer than you might think. According to William Bottorf, in 1335, Guido da Vigevano invented the first car which was wind driven. You could even control it because it had gears connecting to the wheels. Leonardo da Vinci even…

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    World War II and the Enigma machine Ben Karpinski Independent Studies The Enigma Machine was a very large turning point in technology for the war. Not only was it a way of communication, but it was a way of coded information. This would end up being a way to transfer top secret information long distance. The engineer Arthur Scherbius, from Germany, invented the Enigma machine in the hope of selling to commercial companies in the department of communications. Little did he know where it…

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    Personal Injury Solicitors Available to Support in Automobile Accident Claims From the time when there has been invention of the wheels, the idea of a moving motor car has always been in mind. In case, the first cave dweller could see the latest BMW models that travel together our roads, he may take, (though a bit) credit for this development. In whatever way, with these hi-tech innovations also come with risk to our personal health in the type of auto accidents that is formally the number one…

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