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    Audit Summary

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    Jimmy Gonzalez said that he supervised about 12 maintenance workers during the audit period. Peter Chavez, Jonathan Solorzano, Romar Marty, Robert Sintran and Tamary Daley are some of the workers he supervised during the audit period. He attends phone calls from the maintenance workers. He also visits different school sites. AHRC has four stripping machines, two extractors, one buffing machine and three shop vacuums. He transports these equipment based on the need of school sites. If any of the…

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    Cdm Case

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    CDM Cases is a retailer store that sells cases of all different variety such as colors and shapes. Our products are made up of the best material that could be found on the face of this earth. Our store is located in Dinuba, across from Walmart. Our store is unique because we provide the customer with the best service, and the best products as well. Also we keep everything organized based on its type for example the IPhone cases are in there own section so that the customer would not have hard…

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    devised the powerful alternating current (AC) model that significantly became the industry electric standard. AC is widely considered one of the many Tesla’s inventions. It is said that Tesla became an engineer with no single training at all, not exposed in the said field, but did it all himself, and realized the greatest- amazing results by virtue of his applications and industry use. He challenged one of his counterparts, Thomas Edison who also invented direct current (DC) power system…

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    The Warlock Of Menlo Park

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    deliver this utility and this company would later become General Electric Corporation. However, Edison wasn’t the only person working on or dealing with electricity. Nikola Tesla was also a part of this current battle as he decided that alternating current was better while Edison stuck with direct current. This lead to a fierce rivalry between both men that even lead to some rumors being spread that dealt with Edison trying to defame alternating…

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    “I don’t care that they stole my idea, I care that they don’t have any of their own” (Tesla). Those words and many more were uttered from the great master mind that is Nikola Tesla. Born in 1856, the Serbian-American resident of the town of Smiljan, which is in present day Croatia, was set on track for greatness. His father, a humble priest, however, his mother had a crafty hand for household tools and mechanical appliances which may have played a great influence on Tesla’s future creative…

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    for AC-based inventions.When Tesla built the laser the difference between good and evil came with it. The laser was also used for surgical applications as in laser beam for eye laser eye surgery.After all that it became popular in movies like Star Wars or any other sci fi movie or T.V…

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    physics at the Technical University of Graz, but he dropped out before his course was completed. While still living in Europe, he had the idea to design an alternating current motor, an invention which would lead him to New York City in 1884 to work for the famous Thomas Edison. Tesla has often been credited with discovering alternating current power in the first place, but it was actually first developed by Michael Faraday in the early 1800s. Tesla was inspired by, and made many…

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    All of these men were American scientist and businessman who helped Tesla advance his research or career. Thomas Edison allowed Tesla to showcase his talent even though he eventually gave him nothing for his work. “Tesla promptly quit and took a job digging ditches. But it wasn’t long before word got out the Tesla’s AC motor was worth investing in, and teh Western Union Company put Tesla to work in a lab..” (King, pg. 2). Tesla’s time with Thomas allowed him to get exposure and move on to…

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    Nikola Tesla was, in my opinion, a great inventor that could have changed the entire world. Tesla was born in a small village called Smiljan in Austria. After his genious 12-year old brother passed away, Nikola, who was 5 years old, was pressured into studying. He studied chemistry, engineering and philosophy. He later emigrated to the United States of America in 1884, where he was offered a job at the company of Thomas Edison. He quit his job a few months later after a disagreement over his…

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    Nikola Tesla was a powerful scientific mind of the 19th century, specifically, “one of the most outstanding pioneers in the electric power field and in the development of radio” (“Tesla, Nikola”). Tesla began his life as a young Croatian boy, detached from the world, who dreamt of inventing. He later came to America in pursuit of his own American Dream, and in the process paved the road for modern electricity and radio communication. (“Nikola Tesla”). Tesla’s genius ideas are credited to many…

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