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    During the late 1800’s, a significantly large amount of inventors, engineers and futurists emerged. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. His passion for electrical engineer was instigated by his mother, Djuka Mandic, who built him numerous gadgets while he was growing up. While Tesla has attending the University of Prague in Graz, Austria, he became acquainted with the Gramme dynamo, which was used as an add-on generator in manufacturing and farming machinery. Tesla took…

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    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.…

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    1) Use my desk lamp for lighting more over the standard dorm lightning since I have a LED bulb in it and gives off ample brightness. -LED bulbs are by far more efficient than fluorescents since they give off more light than heat. These bulbs also seem to be much brighter and I find myself not being strained when I use it as a sole light source. Since my dorm room is already hot, it only seems smarter to use a light source that does not give off a ton of heat as well. Since I live in a single…

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    a great way to experience our country’s history. Here visitors can see the stories that brought to light our greatest inventions and our victories. Portraying one of our most important inventions like Thomas Edison’s first light bulb, helps Americans see how the light bulb completely revolutionized the world and make us think, how would our lives have been by now if we did not have…

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    in history you will find several Scientist that stand out in their fields of study for various reasons. But, have you ever thought of what life events helped them decide what they would become? Thomas Edison is well known for his invention the light bulb which is commonly used today. However there are some interesting facts about his life that few of us know about. First, Thomas was hard of hearing and actually liked it. He was also homeschooled by his mother. And finally that he outran a…

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    electricity had sparked with inventions and events. The era of 1876-1900 was very significant to America. This era was significant because of the invention of the light bulb, the foundation of Red Cross, and the Klondike Gold Rush. The first event that made the 1876-1900 era important to America was the invention of the light bulb. The light bulb was never really “Invented” but when Thomas Edison had made his version, it had outdone any other design at the time. Instead of using carbonized linen…

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    Thomas Edison revolutionized electricity and progressed the world into a new age of technology. Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847. From a young age Edison grew fascinated with natural philosophy and with chemistry in particular. This fascination and curiosity allowed him to gain knowledge that was far above the level of his age. Throughout his entire life Edison had a higher level of intelligence and wit, that achieved his success. Thomas Alva Edison became who he was early in his…

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    inventing the first electric light in 1802. And Warren de La Rue who enclosed a coiled platinum filament in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current through it in 1840. In 1850, Joseph Wilson Swan created a light bulb by enclosing carbonized paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb. On July, 1874, Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans built their lamps with different shapes and sizes of carbon rods held between electrodes in glass cylinders filed with nitrogen. Being unsuccessful in their…

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    Thomas Alva Edison lit up the world by inventing the lightbulb.Without him we would be in a dark room with burning lanterns.We wouldn't to be able to to watch movies or record sound.Thomas edison made a bunch of inventions.In fact he was granted 1,093 patents.In another words that means he invented 1,093 inventions.In his life he was a Inventor,Businessperson,Film producer,Film director,Entrepreneur And a Telegraphist.One time he saved a three year old boy who was playing on train tracks just…

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    “Another expression of hope, as well as of the light of reason, appears in the motif combining the shape of an eye with the sun’s rays and a light bulb just above the horse’s head” (486).Thus, the light is a form of hope according to the book. However, I think there could be a deeper and more diverse meaning. My first thought when I noticed the light bulb with rays of light was that it reminded me of a bomb. The rays coming off of what looks like an eye reminded me of an explosion that lit up…

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