Nikola Tesla

The Spirit Phone After the carnage of World War I, spiritualism was undergoing a revival, and many people hoped science could provide a means to contact lost loved ones. Edison himself was not a believer and admitted he had no idea if a spirit world even existed. Edison corresponded with British inventor Sir William Crookes, who claimed to have captured images on "spirit photographs." Edison was intrigued. Edison took the idea of the telephone and the telegraph a bit further and announced in…

In 1834 a great inventor was born on March 17,1834 this inventor's name was Gottlieb Daimler. He attended a college called Stuttgart Polytechnic College, he went there from 1857-1859. Daimler later got married to a young woman named Emma. He later became the factory director of Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe. In 1872 Daimler joined a gas motor fabrik as technical manager. Then he became familiar with the four stroke, By the end of 1883 Daimler built a small high speed engine. In the end of…

Benjamin Franklin is a famous scientist who changed the world with this kite experiment. His experiment is called "The Philadelphia Experiment". The lab itself was the study of the relationship between the electricity in the lightning and a lightning rod itself. Franklin's theory involved the lightning bolt neutralizing the total or even a piece of the charged storm cloud. The bolt would then send energy to the high lightning rod. In his experiment, the kit was in replacement of the rod.…

Thomas Edison Thomas Edison struggled in his early life. Edison lost his hearing at a very young age, due to the scarlet fever. He was not in public school only for 3 months because of his hearing loss. He missed out on a lot of things because he got deadly sick. His later life was much better than his childhood, he became an inventor and a businessman. He was one of the greatest businessman of America. Thomas Edison was born on February 11th, 1847 in Milan Ohio. child of Nancy Matthews…

Today, you can flip a switch to light a room, watch a video by pressing a few bottoms, and listen to music with a few clicks. Life wasn't always like this. Before Steve Jobs came along with the iPhone, iPad, iPod, Macintosh, or Pixar, there were other inventors who helped slowly build our world today. One of them was Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison didn't live the most perfect life, he was almost deaf, had little actual education and was poor in his childhood, but that didn't stop him from…

.The Man Who Did It All Thomas Edison once said- “Not everything of value in life comes from books – experience the world.” As a child Thomas Edison learned that life is hard but, he didn’t let that stop him. He was always everywhere seeing and waiting to receive anything the world threw at him. He always put in the hard work and was there when someone needed help. Thomas Edison influenced the world of technology and transportation. Thomas Alva Edison was American inventor. He is also known to…

The light bulb that is common in today’s society was invented by none other than Thomas Edison in 1879, however, the first attempts in accomplishing so were made by Sir Humphry Davy in 1802. In 1878, Edison conducted countless hours of research into developing an incandescent lamp and he filed his first patent for “Improvement in Electrical Lights” on October 14, 1878. On November 4, 1879, he filed a patent once again utilizing a “Carbon filament or strip coiled and connected… to platina contact…

Edison and Tesla: Leading to the Modern World Who does not know Thomas Alva Edison? We can presumably infer that every single person in this world know who he is — the light bulb inventor. While we know him well, who knows Nicola Tesla? People tend not to realize that Tesla’s electricities, the Alternative Current model, are implemented worldwide nowadays. Hence, Tesla’s contributions are also as beneficial as Edison’s. Both of them were renown inventors who pioneered many of modern leading…

The Morse Code was invented by Samuel Morse in 1836. It was developed and worked on between 1830s and 1840s. The Morse code is a method of sending messages, that consist of sounds by telegraphs and radio operators. These messages are send through a wire or radio. This system is made up of a series of dashes, dots, short signals, long signals and spaces. These different signs all represent letters, numbers, punctuation marks and other types of symbols. This code was used by the military and…

The beginnings of music technology and consumption originated in the late 1800s with Thomas Edison’s ingenious phonograph. Over a course of seventy-five years, the phonograph has received many upgrades and has even become a basis for the recent music technology today (Price and Albright para. 5). Some of the newer music technological advances include vinyl records, cassette tapes, CDs, portable MP3 players, and streaming services, which have all revolutionized music consumption because they have…