Nikola Tesla

With so many issues going on in the community, it may be a good idea for the community to use its resources to its own advantage. The idea is to improve conditions to make our community a better place and solar energy is one way of solving multiple problems with one solution. By using solar power, it eliminates chances of being harmed by loose or dangerous power lines, therefore improving safety hazards. Society has come a long way thanks to pioneers such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison,…

Thomas Edison a famous American inventor, who invented many life influential devices and one of the first inventors who used mass production stated the following quote. “To invent something takes 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” I agree that to make a goal or an idea reality it takes a lot of hard work. Thomas Edison invented many life changing devices e.g. electric light, sound recording, and motion pictures. My reasons why I agree to the quote Thomas Edison stated is the following.…

Technology has significantly advanced for the past few decades, with abundance of inventions created by brilliant minds have filled the current world. One such brilliant inventor that made his name known in the inventing world back in the 1870s was Scottish-born American inventor Alexander Graham Bell, the founding father of the device that could transmit speech electrically; the telephone (Gray, 2011). The telephone was notably fashioned from his attempts to improve an invention that was…

Humanity is a collective group of thinkers, scattered across time and space, and, as such, no invention can be attributed to a single person, rather several people who continue to make innovations and improvements upon the design. It may then be argued that inventions aren't created, but grown through the ages until it is perfected. Such is the case with Thomas Newcomen, who, through improvements upon the design made by Thomas Savery, led to one of the major catalysts of the Industrial…

Andrew Hallidie set up his first wire rope making company in the gold fields of American Bar in 1856. Hallidie had learned his craft in Scotland where at the age of ten he had apprenticed under his father, Andrew Smith, who had a number of patents for the making of wire rope. At American Bar a quartz mill had built an incline railway using hemp rope to haul empty cars up and full cars down. The hemp rope required replacement every 75 days, Hallidie’s lasted for two years. Returning to San…

Thomas Alva Edison is undoubtedly the most influential American from the 20th century. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio in 1847 (Hart 222-225). When he first began school, “Edison’s teacher thought he was addled” (Allaby and Gjertsen 13), and his mother soon pulled him out. As a homeschooled child, Edison became an avid entrepreneur at a young age (Allaby and Gjertsen 14-23). He sold newspapers on a train as well as candy and fruit to supplement his earnings. When Edison found an empty train car,…

Auguste Lumiere and Louis Lumiere were two brothers who worked together in developing the first motion picture. The oldest brother, Auguste Lumiere was born on October 19, 1862 and Louis Lumiere was born on October 5, 1864 in France. They gained inspiration from their father, Antoine Lumiere, as he ran a business of manufacturing and supplying photographic equipment. In addition both brothers attended Technical School as they were really bright in the science field. Since the Lumiere brothers…

Have you heard about Benjamin Franklin? He is the one that discovered electricity. He is one very important person. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn’t be warm in the winter and we wouldn’t be cooled in the summer. He also invented the lightning bolt, bifocal eyeglasses, and the armonica. He also invented the franklin stove to keep houses warm. Benjamin Franklin was born January 17, 1706 in Boston Massachusetts. His father (Josiah Franklin) had 17 kids. Josiah Franklin had two wives, Abiah Folger…

When Melies was only at a young age, he started to get passionate about the arts. He decided when he was younger he was going to perused a career in stage design and puppetry. He made it in what he pursued to become but because he was really brilliant. It guided him to become huge in the film industry for a short time. Now with Porter, he wasn’t as successful like Melies in the film industry. Porter had experience with electrical engineering unlike Melies. Because he was well experience with…

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He married Mary Stilwell in 1871 and they had three children together: Marion Estelle Edison, Thomas Alva Edison, Jr., and William Leslie Edison. Mary died at the age of 29 due to medical complications. Edison later married another woman, Mina Miller in 1886 and they also had three children together: Madeleine Edison, Charles Edison, and Theodore Miller Edison. Edison was a telegraph operator from when he was 15 until he was 22.…