Invention of the telephone

There was no possible way that the Emperor could have known that an Italian anarchist was waiting with three bombs—bombs intended to take his life. Luckily, Emperor Napoleon III survived the deadly encounter, and the incident became another reason to have a more secure opera house built. On the other hand, there is the Parthenon. Persians had destroyed and wreaked havoc to their previous temples, which caused the construction of a building that remained relatively intact for 2000 years to come…

In our modern, interconnected world, creative destruction and globalization have transformed the labor force. Creative destruction, the replacement of jobs with newer ones as advancements in technology render the older ones obsolete, has combined with globalization to form an explosive molotov cocktail for the working class. Menial, but reliable jobs, particularly those found in the manufacturing sector, have been supplanted by both artificial intelligence and cheap foreign labor. These jobs…

The period of time from 1700 to 1900 in European and American societies was a time of revolution. The industrial revolution changed the lives of many, especially social and economic changes. This period of time is also known as the Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason. This is due to the thinkers of the time demanding reform of reason, faith, liberty, and equality. Furthermore, monarchies were overthrown and replaced with new ideas of government during this time period. This new government system…

Photographers By Philip Langlois wolfjpl@gmail.com Date Due: 03/11/15 The history of photography can be traced back to the camera obscura which is a box with a pinhole through which light travels and reflects off a mirror showing the image. The invention of modern photography can trace its roots back to Niepce who took what would be the first photograph in 1827 using a pewter plate. People would improve upon Daguerre’s idea until 1888, when George Eastman and the Kodak Company created the…

The basic essentials such as electricity, lightbulbs, and telephones were created at this time, and they rose to popularity. However, the factory workers did not adjust well to the changes that went on in their factories. Manufacturers realized that mass production was inexpensive and efficient. For example, in…

The Enigma of the 20th Century “Send the U-Boat to (51° 15' 43", -6° 45' 4"); attack at 15:00.” This could have been a message that was ciphered using a secret code during times of war. Cryptography, the study of securely coding messages, has been around for thousands of years (The Enigma Machine Explained). It started out with pencil-and-paper codes, made of substituting letters for each other in the alphabet. Then, there were more geometric codes, relying on using grids to write out messages…

BLUETOOTH TECHNOLOGY Introduction As with time, our need becomes our necessity. And it is said that, Necessity is father of all Invention. With time we need wireless technology that can replace cables such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. Bluetooth is also cable replacement technology that can connect different computer devices with a short-range wireless radio connection. It has wide areas of applications. Some of it’s features is • Low Complex Architechture, • Power Consumption is low • Less Price •…

Donald Horne 's famous quote is often referred to by many Australians. However, people have taken its meaning at face value, focusing only on its first part, whereas Donald Horne meant it to be sarcastic. What he meant by this quote is that Australia has only prospered as a nation because of other countries and that the people within it have not done anything to contribute to this. He was very upset by some of Australia 's decisions such as the White Australia Policy. Many people believe that…

Before the nineteenth century and the centuries before it, life for women in Great Britain was barely tolerable. Drowned in poverty, chores, demands from husbands, duties to the children, and without money or freedom, life as a British housewife or mother was, in essence, an absolute nightmare. Fed up with being bystanders to corruption and oppression, they decided that it was time to take a stand. The Women’s suffrage movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth century were determined to…

to support libraries, universities, & public institutions. D. Technology and Innovations. a. Inventions ! First radical change ; telegraph by Samuel F.B. Morse (1844), Improved transatlantic cable by Cyrus W. Field’s (1866) with these two long distance communication was possible esp in war. - 1900, cables linked to all continents & telephone by Alexander Graham Bell (1876) ( Other inventions : Typewriter (1867) , cash register (1879) , calculating machine (1887) , adding machine (1888)…