Ancient Chinese Inventions and Contributions Strayer University HUM 111- World Culture I 30 May 2013 Introduction China is an exceptional nation that is famous for its ancient invention and contribution to both the past and the current world. Chinese invention and contribution helped greatly in creating jobs‚ engaging in Wars and still contributed to public life. This paper will highlight the top ten ancient Chinese inventions and their importance to people’s daily lives. Eight useful Chinese
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Inventions of the Renaissance Clocks The first mechanical clock was invented in the early 1300’s. With this invention time began to be measured in hours (24 hours equaling a day). Galileo‚ an Italian scientist‚ discovered the pendulum in 1581. The pendulum greatly improved the constant movement of the hands or bell of a clock. The average error with the pendulum varied only by seconds each day. Before this the error was from 10 to 15 minutes a day. During the 1600’s the metallic gear‚ or toothed
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A telephone‚ or phone‚ is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are not in the same vicinity of each other to be heard directly. A telephone converts sound‚ typically and most efficiently the human voice‚ into electronic signals suitable for transmission via cables or other transmission media over long distances‚ and replays such signals simultaneously in audible form to its user. The wordtelephone has been adapted into the vocabulary of many
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The most important invention of ALL time has to be the invention of Apple Incorporated. It is a multinational corporation that creates consumer electronics‚ computer software‚ and a commercial server. Apple’s most popular inventions are the iPhone‚ iPod music player‚ and Macintosh computer line-up. (WHO)The inventers of Apple Inc. are Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.(WHERE) Apple Inc. was incorporated in January 3‚ 1977‚ in Cupertino‚ California. (WHEN)The inspiration came from when Mr. Wozniak attended
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It has been called the pill that transformed America‚ the single most important invention of the 20th century. The invention being referred to is the birth control pill. Before the actual pill‚ there had been various forms of birth control‚ but none of them seemed to be very effective or simple to perform. One of the oldest references to birth control was the “withdrawal” method referenced in the Bible. In the 1870’s‚ a wide assortment of birth control devices were available in America -- such as
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Society At Its Worst Why is it that society must always judge a book from its cover? Society puts a label on everything as good or bad‚ rich or poor‚ normal or strange and though sometimes they can be right most of these labels are opinions not facts. In this novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Society plays a big role. Society shuns the creature because of the way he looks. Victor Frankenstein the narrator of the most of the novel studies the art of life and how the body is made and how it
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The mobile phone—world’s best invention On 10th of March‚ 1876 Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first speech using electricity. From that day forward‚ the telephone system changed every aspect of life. Although it did not immediately change the world‚ it set communication on a path that would change the future of communication. Mobile phones appeared in the early 1980’s and today there are millions in use. Today‚ mobile phones do much more than just allow for voice conversation‚ mobile phones
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Television Though john Logie – aird started selling television sets in 1930‚ Germany gets the credit for creating the first device to send pictures through a wire in 1884. In 1884 Paul Gottlieb Nipkow‚ a 23-year-old university student in Germany‚ patented the first electromechanical television system which produced 4000 pixels per second that took on the shape of a picture made of 18 parallel lines The television camera tube‚ called the iconoscope tube was made by ValdimirZworykin
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inventive devices. It is amazing that such unique and seemingly crazy ideas can turn a profit‚ but we have found 10 of dumbest inventions that did just that! To find out how these crazy inventions miraculously earned their inventors millions of dollars‚ all you have to do is read along! Don’t forget to return for our coming part two article‚ with the top five dumbest inventions that made way too much money! Number Ten: The Inventive Doggles This unique head accessory is made for canines who always
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Cooper - History of Cell Phone. (2003). Recovered june 15 of 2014‚ from http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/martin_cooper.htm Martin Cooper Mobile Phone Inventions Whartonmotorola Attwireless Technology Innovatators. (2008). Recovered june 15 of 2014‚ from http://www.sciences360.com/index.php/martin-cooper-mobile-phone-inventions-whartonmotorola-attwireless-technology-innovatators-18207/ Firt cellphone a true ‘brick’. (2005). Recovered june 15 of 2014‚ from http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7432
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