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    Thomas Edison Inventor

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    Thomas Alva Edison was the most prolific inventor in American history. As a 19th century pioneer, he introduced America to innovation or invention, research, development and commercialization. His largest contributions to cinema include the phonograph, light bulb, kinetoscope, the first motion picture and the first film production studio. The inventor was born to Sam and Nancy on February 11th, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. As a child, Edison was a poor student and teachers saw little potential in him.…

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    “I have not failed. I 've just found ten thousand ways that won 't work” (Famous). Thomas Edison was a great inventor and philanthropist. With over one thousand patents, he explored and improved technologies of the eighteenth century. Through his diligent work, successes and failures his perseverance changed the world. Some of his successes include: The incandescent light bulb, modern electric utility system, the phonograph, the kinetoscope, and the alkaline battery. Thomas Edison shaped the…

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    To know what the invention really is, you need to know the man behind it all and because of that, I gave a brief history of Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb. Well the first one that was practical to use at least, in my essay you will learn about how the light bulb came to become what it is today. I wrote the past of Edison life following up to his scientific discovery and how we use it to this day. You will learn how important lights really are to the world and why we should be…

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    Alva Edison was American inventor. He is also known to be one of America’s best businessmen. Edison grew up with many hearing challenges but didn’t let that get in his way. He later invented many things but the things he is most noticeable for are telegraphs, the universal stock ticker, the phonograph, the…

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    the aspects behind the fraud and how auditors could potentially discovered the fraud. Company Background Toshiba did not get its name until 1978 when two Japanese companies merged. Tanaka Seizo-sho, establish in 1875, was a lead manufacturer of telegraph equipment. It merged with Hakunestu-sha, which was the first plant to manufacturing incandescent lamps in Japan in 1890. When they…

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    wing of Edison. Great symbols of the nation were now greater than before with lights. His inventions weren’t only used with electricity, he was able to improve older ways of communication. He produced the automatic telegraph which could send multiple messages over one wire and other telegraph printers (Crepeau). Word could then spread faster than before and to more locations. This was important because you could tell more than one person at a time, you could send the same exact message, but only…

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    are starting to advance in fields of invention that used to be controlled by males. The Patents owned by women are mostly found in areas of data processing. Some are found in surgery, as well as digital processing system. Some are also found in electrical computer…

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    Scientists make important contributions to technology and medicine through their discoveries. Nikola Tesla is distinguished for his futuristic inventions which serve as components of electrical systems in modern times. Another scientist who influenced contemporary technology is Joseph Henry, who developed the telegraph. Likewise, the acclaimed scientist Hans Christian Ørsted discovered electromagnetism, which broadened the range of scientific possibilities. Despite the eminence of Tesla, Henry,…

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    John Stone Research Paper

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    Stone Stone continued his great interest of the telephone, the great transmission of the human voice, and space waves. He founded his own company February of 1907, and was named The Society of Wireless Telegraph Engineers. SWTE was unfortunately an unsuccessful business due to lack of availability to radio an adequate group of the physical tools to enable the business to grow. Stone was directed to the Radio field by Radio Pioneer Macaroni’s experiments…

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    Where Modern Meets Mundane: The History of the Internet in a Contemporary Culture If we are the so-called “networked society” (Kåhre, 2013, p.1), and this is the age of web culture, we have to ask ourselves if the Internet has indeed just recently jumped out of antiquity. Through a critical analysis of literature surrounding different communication types, I will endeavour to investigate which aspects of the Internet, if any, could be regarded as ‘new’. Throughout this essay, I use the word…

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