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    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.…

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    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 developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse; the telegraph. The telegraph was a highly successful system consisted of a dot-and-dash Morse code, but…

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    children; he would be married to her for the next 13 years. By 1876 Edison decided to expand his operations by building a new research facility in Meleno, New Jersey. Edison planned to create something that would compete with Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone but he never got around to doing it. Instead, he developed a device that would be able to record sound. Although it wouldn't become public for another decade, the phonograph would become one of many inventions that not only bring Edison…

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    Sherry Turkle would roughly predict the cell phone trend line would be increased as we move from left to right on the graph. Based on her argument, strong tie relationships will decline as people substitute them with weak tie relationships. More specifically, Turkle states that people are more likely to focus on the virtual community in order to connect with others and avoid too close intimacy. For instance, people do texting while they have chatting and constantly check online email even though…

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    There are many disputes debating on whether the Patriot Act should be legal or not. The Patriot Act’s purpose is to “[make] it easier for the government to obtain the orders and allowed for greater coordination among intelligence agencies and law enforcement”(Philadelphia, par 14). But at what point is obtaining information from the American citizens too far? The issue for this debate is does the Patriot Act violate the people's rights. This debate has been going on since 2001 as some view the…

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    Steam Locomotive History

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    Technology and science has definitely evolved throughout the years. We have become a fully connected country where information is at our fingertips. This was unimaginable 200 years ago. It is amazing to see how far humans have come since then. A lot of it is credited to a few key people and inventions from the early 1800s. The first of these inventions is the steam locomotive. This may have been the most defining and important invention during this era. It started to connect the otherwise…

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    What is the most influential invention of the late 19th century? Well, there are many choices to choose from. There is the light bulb/electricity which is mainly associated with Thomas Edison, the airplane created by the Wright Brothers, the telephone created by Alexander Graham Bell and his partner Thomas Watson, and the automobile/assembly line which is mainly related to Henry Ford. These people and their inventions have had an unbelievable effect on our world today. I cannot imagine this…

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    Nt1330 Unit 3 Business

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    Choose three businesses that you are familiar with: a restaurant (fast-food or sit-down), a clothing or home accessories store, and a movie theater or other entertainment establishment. The three businesses that I am familiar with are Chuy’s (a Mexican sit-down restaurant), Tommy Hilfiger (a clothing store) and Carmike Cinemas (a movie theater). 1. Chuy’s How long does the first customer contact take in each business? The first customer contact happens as soon as we enter the restaurant. There…

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    the binary encoding will then pass through the network from node to node along a path. At each node, the packet will be briefly stored and then forwarded on to the next node until it arrives at the receiver’s destination. The data is sent over the telephone line digitally. The data will contain instructions on reconstructing the digital data back into analog signal, where Bob will be able to hear the analog human voice audio. VoIP utilizes full duplex data transmission, where both people using…

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    communicate. He didn’t just randomly start inventing things. Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized the world with his telephone, schools for the deaf, his other inventions, his integrity as a man and with his family, even though he did not always receive the credit he was due. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and revolutionized the world. Bell was working on the telephone to help with his school of the deaf. (“Alexander Graham Bell-A Life of Invention”, 22) Bell had been working…

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