The Farnsworth Invention

“biologically and mechanically” running robots, then there is a problem. Machine Man depicts the complexity and horrifying details of how a brilliant scientist, Dr. Charles Neumann, would develop and become a “volunteer” to try on his prosthetic inventions. According to Cole VanNostrand, who is a prosthetic engineer himself, his article: "Prosthetics: The Ethical Issues surrounding Them," states that engineers need to follow the strict protocol of the National Society of…

completely new way to circulate air. A great example of hybrid innovation, or an idea that combines several inventions into one and combines them to make a more functional product, is the iPhone because it combines a phone, a computer mouse, a computer and many other great inventions into just one single item. Innovation helps us find solutions to complex problems without inventing something. Inventions are brand new ideas that have never been seen before. Knowledge is the foundation of…

Piscine Patel, a young teen from India, has an unexpected journey with failure and accomplishment involved. Thomas Edison, a young inventor from the late 1800’s, went through many struggles and triumphs in his process of inventing the lightbulb. Piscine and Edison both followed a similar path that soon led to them both being successful. As they were working towards that goal, errors, mistakes, and trouble occurred. Trying hard enough should, in the end, led you to success. Thomas Edison and…

Frankenstein, eternally convoluting the ethics of invention. A Romantic at heart, Shelley, through her intricate elaboration of Victor Frankenstein and his creation as well as scenery, expounds upon the deleterious outcomes associated with the distancing of oneself from the natural world as a mirror to the ideals expressed in Volney’s Ruins of Empires, in order to reveal the calamity innately bestowed in the dawn of industrialization. Inventions both derive from and spur societal change. In…

Patents. They allow an individual to own their own invention. An inventor is normally thought of as someone in the world of science, but this is not always true. Is John Pemberton, the man who created coca cola not considered an inventor? Inventors are everywhere around us from chemists looking to make the next coca cola to engineers trying to optimize the production of a substance, but what happens if someone were to try and steal another’s invention and take credit for it, that is where a…

of electric current by using the chemical reactions. His great invention is that “he transmitted the electricity by linking positive and negatively charged connectors and driving voltage or electrical charge through them. In 1831, Michael Faraday made a crude power generator (known as electric dynamo) to solve the problem of generating electric current in practical way. So it became feasible to use. He used the magnet in his invention. In 1879, Thomas Edison and his team invented the…

When people think of the patents they automatically think protection. A closer examination of patents connected to the field of software indicates that companies are abusing patents, which demonstrates an undermining of the integrity of patent law. Currently many powerful companies retain a great quantity of patents and this is leading to an unfair situation in the software world. One person can hold a patent and this prevents other from creating something even better if it is remotely seen as…

anyone know that Cyrus Mccormick invention has created over 4.5 million loaves of bread into Chicago? Cyrus was born in February 15, 1809 and at a young age Cyrus started inventing things for agriculture. His father worked on it for 22 years and a 22 year old kid came and finished the reaper. Cyrus has started a very worldwide and international company that is still known today. Cyrus wanted to create a company that will be remembered, and Cyrus has a brilliant invention the reaper. His…

The telegraph was a very simple and efficient method to send messages developed by Samuel Morse and a group of other inventors in the 1830s and 1840s. A combination of dots and dashes were assigned to each letter. To send a message the operator key would be pushed down to complete the battery’s electrical circuit and the amount of time you held the operator key would determine if it is a dot or dash. This would then transmit an electrical signal through the wires laid in between stations to the…

Imagine never seeing the sun, sky, or nature. In the novel Tunnels by co-authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, a boy named Will Burrows stumbles upon an underground Victorian era city, named the Colony. Will finds the underground city while looking for his father who recently went missing. After being captured by the civilians of the underground city (also known as colonists), he discovers that his dad, also known as Mr. Burrows was captured by the colonists and was banished deeper into…