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    What can be said about inventing solutions? Well it is a very important part of making advances in our civilizations. What are patents, and why are they so important to inventors? Patents are an “exclusive right granted by the government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years(Patent).” To better understand the importance of patents, we are going to look at the life of one of the inventors with the most patents, Thomas Edison. Thomas Alva Edison…

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    longest wavelength is in the electromagnetic spectrum. Its the radio wave. They are so big they can range from a football field to larger than are planet. How are they created you might ask. When an electric field and magnetic field are joined. Nikola Tesla was the first to discover the rotating magnetic field. He was a science engineer. He got his education at graz university of technology and gymnasium karlovac. He was born on July 10, 1856 and died on January 7, 1943. What's the difference…

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    The U.S. military has been making advancements since 1786 until present day. They make advancements not just to weapons, but also to vehicles, armor, uniforms, legality, and present day drones. In order to make these advancements, the military needs money, and due to recent budget cuts it has been harder to do so. The U.S. Military makes these advancements to keep the country and its citizens safe. The U.S. has been making advancements and adapting since 1786 until present day. One of the first…

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    Charles Franklin Kettering, who was an American inventor and businessman, once said, “An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in”. These inventions, revised 999 times, can have great impacts. New inventions, innovations and technology impacted industrialization and American life in the late 1800s. The Bessemer process allowed for quicker and cheaper production of steel - which became the main material for large-scale building projects. Direct and alternating current…

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    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, and Ørsted, the importance of Michael…

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    In the book Breaking Blue and the movie The Prestige both, curiosity motivates the Tony Bamonte and Robert Angiers, but then obsession takes over and destroys the lives of Bamonte and Angiers. Anthony Bamonte, 47, is sheriff of Pend Oreille County in the late 1980s. Working on a master's degree, he decides to write a history of the sheriffs that preceded him. The project leads him to an unsolved murder case that's 54 years old: the fatal shooting of a marshal in the tiny border town of…

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    Innovation : The method used by an entrepreneur, or organization to create a new good or service on accordance to market demands by using their resources and knowledge and skills. Innovation and its process is confused with the continuous improvement in an organization. but for an innovation to take place , it should impact on the organization's pricing structure, its sales and profit , capture new market segmentation, market shares, goodwill and its brand popularity, etc. Usually continues…

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    a replacement filament to the platinum. From 1881 to 1882 he traveled around the world making light exhibitions. Through all this publicity it did not take long for competitors to emerge. Nikola Tesla was one of Edison major competitors, the difference in the two was that Edison used DC current and Teslas used AC current. Edison used very cruel methods to show the danger of DC power with the electrocution of a circus elephant in Coney Island, New York. In 1896 Edison became the first…

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    If you ever happen to turn on The History Channel, you'll notice that the channel has gone from showing actual moments in history to hypothetical moments in history that probably never happened at all. Ancient Aliens is basically a show that shows people with little to no educational background in an subject close to Astronomy. For Example: That guy with the crazy hair, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, is a 1998 graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, with a bachelor's degree in sports information…

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    static high voltage charges that are applied to the resonators via spark gaps (spaces between electrical terminals across which discharges pass.) (These high voltages cause a corona discharge around the perimeter of the outer resonator ring which Nikola Tesla referred to as an “electric brush” and Lakhovsky referred to as…

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