Phonograph

Your groove: perhaps how music makes you feel, how it stimulates your body with the beat of a drum or the riff of a guitar. My groove: on the same level as your groove, only it goes just a bit further than just the feel. A machinist’s groove: the point at which a tool does work. We all see groove differently, figuratively and technically. We’ll be focusing on grooves that match up, your’s and mine, and how we’ll see that groove is more than just feelings. We’ll be exploring groove’s historically…

The element I selected for the Element Research Project is Osmium. Osmium’s chemical symbol is Os. Osmium’s atomic mass is 190 amu. Osmium’s atomic number is 76, it has 76 protons and 76 electrons. Osmium also has 114 neutrons. Osmium belongs to the transition metal group in the middle of the periodic table. Osmium’s Bohr model with electric configuration has two electrons in the first shell, eight in the second shell, eighteen is the third shell, thirty two in the fourth shell, fourteen in the…

created by Alexander Graham was the telephone, allowing people from far distances communicated much faster and easier (520). Perhaps what of the most well known inventor of the time was Thomas Edison (520). He invented many new devices such as the phonograph, the mimeograph, the dictaphone, the moving picture, and most importantly, the electric light bulb (520). The light bulb changed the way people live and turned dark night times into visible daytime (520). Inventions were the most significant…

American tango. Jazz was popular too but the most widespread of them all is big band which consisted of 10 musicians. People started to prefer jazz to other music at the time. The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald termed the 1920s "the Jazz Age." the phonograph and radio - made popular music more accessible than ever before. Jazz started in New Orleans. There were very important inventions that made the roaring 20s. The inventions at the time was the Band-Aid, radio, and the jukebox. Those…

Civil War. Over the course of his lifetime Granville Woods has obtained more than 50 patents for inventions, including: an automatic brake and an egg incubator and improvements to other inventions such as safety circuits, telegraph, telephone, and phonograph Granville T. Woods was born April 23, 1856 to a mixed-race family in Columbus, Ohio. His mother, Martha J. Brown, and his father, Tailer Woods, had another son named Lyates. Granville went to school until the age of 10, but had to leave…

Inventing Solutions Thomas Edison was born in Millan Ohio on February 11th, 1847. He did not learn to talk until he was almost 4 years old. While in primary school, Thomas often day dreamed and was commonly characterized as being mentally slow by his teachers. Because of those comments, young Edison’s mother took him out of school, and home schooled him. In 1854 his family moved to Port Huron Michigan. Growing up, Edison sold candy and newspapers on trains. He later on became a telegraph…

Following the incredible chaos of World War One, the restlessness in America shaped into a new era: the Jazz Age. “The Jazz Age is the name given to the era in American history between the end of WW1 and the start of the Great Depression in 1929 (Alchin, Linda. 1913-1928: WW1 & Prohibition).” The Nineteen Twenties were a time of many radical cultural changes in America. Young men who had returned from combat longed to make the most of the rest of their time, and began living rather reckless…

Chapter five explains the advancement made in the distribution of music across the world. Phonographs were used in the 1960’s. It recorded “data as bumps and dips...a slight scratch is interpreted as a data bump or dip and results in a pop.(200)” In the 1930’s the first analog tape was introduced and as time progressed so did musical communication…

People have heard about the most famous contributors to space travel such as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. However, the woman who made space travel possible, Katherine Johnson, has not been properly recognized for her contribution to the exploration of space. Johnson was a NASA mathematician who who calculated the trajectories of objects in space. Despite the oppression she underwent because of her race and gender, she was still able to accomplish many feats and refused to be ignored. She was…

way we live our lives. These innovators were able to create an original idea, develop it, and apply it to our daily lifestyle. Thomas Alva Edison is one of these remarkable individuals. Edison is known for many of his inventions ranging from the phonograph to an industrialized electrical system; but I believe that Edison’s greatest invention is one that we still use in our daily lives, the incandescent light bulb. This incandescent lamp became extremely successful due to the advantages it had…