The Farnsworth Invention

more businesses because of the light bulbs they can open business for longer hours, meaning even after the sunset and which is good for the economy. These days we cannot live without it, I would say that life’s of people have improved after the inventions by Edison, and we should always be thankful to Edison for the light we have today. According to the biography website they said that “Thomas Edison was not the inventor of the first light bulb, he came up with the technology that helped bring…

Inventions Throughout the discovery of electricity, the light bulb, and even the first airplane have all been important inventions to the world. When thinking about inventions they use curiosity, motivation, and creativity. Though what makes an invention is chance and necessity, they may happen by chance or on accident. In other cases, people may need an invention to solve a problem. When thinking about chance and necessity, they both play a huge role in the development of inventions. Chance is…

easier to ship products all around the country. Consumers were no longer restricted to products created in region they lived in. The Sears catalog took advantage of all the railways and postal service to bring urban annuities to rural areas. The invention of the refrigerated boxcar allowed products to be shipped around the country, without spoiling. Aviation became the next major transportation, there was no long car or train rides to the other side of the country or long boat rides to…

Whenever any new invention or technology, which has not been previously existed or published in any document which has not been used in the country or anywhere else in the world on any day before such innovation has been registered. When someone has invented some invention or technology and would like to get it in the public domain it is regarded as invention disclosure. When one person discloses his innovation he would require getting it patented in order to protect his innovation from…

exciting experiments and new technologies to come. The impact of the technologies in this time affected the time period, the world, and even the life of people today. The impact of all these technologies in the 1970’s was tremendous. Before the invention of the pocket calculator, people either needed access to an…

Thomas Edison was one of the greatest inventors and entrepreneurs of the Gilded Age, bringing forth great changes in our society many years ago. Some may be wondering why someone would say this, primarily knowing Edison as the inventor of the modern day lightbulb, but there is more to the inventor than meets the eye upon further examination. Entrepreneurs are defined by the Edison Innovation Foundation as “agents of change”, who create products and services for the world, thus creating massive…

“What makes a great idea great?”(page# author). Throughout Steven J. Paley’s novel The Art of Invention, Paley answers this question and many more as he vividly illustrates how great inventions contain three essential characteristics: simplicity, elegance and robustness. This book, written for the aspiring inventor, describes how inventing is a creative act, and offers detailed guidance on how to refine your own creativity and vision. Paley uses his experiences as well as real-world examples to…

Few inventions have changed everyday life as much as the sewing machine. The sewing machine was an innovation on a personal and universal level. The creation process of the sewing machine was the work of several men over a number of years however Elias Howe is ultimately considered the inventor of the sewing machine. Elias Howe was born on July 9, 1819 in Spencer, Massachusetts. Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory beginning…

A Murder Most Foul: The Death of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer The brainchild of the brilliant John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Edward Berry, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, had many enemies. Were these enemies what ultimately lead to its untimely demise? The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) is claimed by many to be the first modern digital electronic computer. Whether or not this is true; at the very least it was a precursor to ENIAC, the computer that most people who are not on the side of the…

In the world, there are many great ideas that become superb inventions. One excellent invention, that is valuable and influential in our daily lives, is cereal, more so to busy people. This invention goes way back in history all the way to 1863 when it was invented by a man named James Caleb Jackson. The inventor originally poured a small amount of granola into a bowl with a splash of milk, and left it overnight and that's how we have cereal today! Cereal was originally invented to help cure…