Phonograph

Scottish-born American inventor and teacher of the deaf, Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) is best known for perfecting the telephone to transmit vocal messages by electricity. The telephone inaugurated a new age in communication technology. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was an expert in vocal physiology and elocution; his grandfather, Alexander Bell, was an elocution professor. After studying at the University of Edinburgh…

Numerous stories of swing musicians are dominated by ethnic, racial, and gendered situations; stories that played an important role in the development of swing. Examples include Artie Shaw’s childhood years on the Lower East Side of New York City where he spent time with migrant children from Eastern Europe and Trummy Young’s youth in the Yamacraw section in Savannah, Georgia where the community that he grew up in was dominated by blacks, Italians, and Chinese. As a decisive player in the…

Edison left his family and went to work for a newspaper and most importantly the railroad. The railroad allowed him to start inventing on the move and travel to several different parts of the country. Some of Edison’s inventions included; the phonograph, light bulb, magnetic iron ore separator,…

unrecognized unless the individual does something to attract attention to oneself. This piece is very American because it contains many of the traits that an American person would have. For example, “Had everything necessary to the modern man, a phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire”. Also, “He was married and added five children to the population”. Both of these examples help express the necessities that an American may desire. This piece of writing covers American values when it talks…

T.S. Thomas Alva Edison showed a great example of grit, perseverance, and endurance. E.S. He attended school only for three months. Teachers thought he is unable think clearly. S.D. Thomas Edison’s mother taught him at home. He taught himself by reading books, science magazines, and other material. Thomas Edison learned a lot from his own experiments. He was trying his best to become important in life. Edison works really hard to make his family proud of him. E.S. Thomas Edison had…

In order to truly understand human society as it exists today, it is first necessary to be able to distinguish between all of the variables that culminated to yield the present. For, if even one condition was to vacillate, the whole outcome of human development could have been drastically different. The man undertaking the arduous task of trying to classify and decipher human history is Jared Diamond, who, through his work, Guns, Germs, and Steel, is able to show just how interconnected the…

completely wrong. Dracula is a cautionary tale of what happens when people ignore the old or new world instead of having a balanced amount of both. Many characters within the novel openly embrace the new age and its wonders. Recording diaries on phonographs, compiling documents with…

With this prosperity and possibility came jobs. Still largely a rural society, Americans increasingly moved to the city looking for work, armed with a belief in the possibilities and a strong work ethic. Alongside them came nearly a half-million immigrants in 1900, also seeking a better life. America's Industrial Revolution produced much prosperity and leisure, but also much poverty and disillusionment. Tycoons such as J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie amassed fortunes greater than many European…

which formed his base for inventions. This laboratory was well equipped and, as a result, it created job opportunities to skilled personnel who could help Edison run this facility. Edison and his team made new inventions. Then, he invented the phonograph the following year. He later invented a practical lamp, an invention that was faced with many challenges and competition from other inventors whose earlier versions of the light bulb was unpractical. Some of these inventors included Henry…

Melodic Testing Anyone in school has at least once taken a math timed test, and hasn’t been able to finish, or might not have done very good on it. Well, music may be the answer to that problem. Does the type of music a person listens to affect their accuracy or completeness more on a test? Many people have often thought that no music will help you concentrate, get farther, and increase their accuracy. That it will help you just focus on the test instead of the music. In this case, they are…