how it got this way today * Body History of GE From the start the same question has been asked “Why predict the future when you can change it” In 1890 Thomas Edison established the Edison General Electric Company by bringing his various businesses together. During this period a major competitor arose called Thomas-Houston company Thomas- Houston Company was a dominant electrical innovation company created from different mergers In 1892 the companies merged creating the General Electric Company
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Suzana Milic Thomas Edison V. Nikola Tesla 26 March 2013 Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July 1856‚ in Smiljan‚ now Croatia. He was the son of an Orthodox priest. In history‚ he will be remembered as a scientist who is openly opposed to the then unquestioned scientific authority to Thomas Edison. Tesla insisted on converting DC into AC‚ which even the great scientist Edison‚ did not have in his head. At the very beginning‚ Edison was Tesla’s idol and worked with him for a time as an assistant. He
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and monarchies. The natural laws created by Adam Smith‚ which characterize the Industrial Revolution in the United States‚ led to a dramatic increase in competition and a transcendence in the rate of innovation‚ it is best exemplified through Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla’s war of currents. Adam Smith is regarded as the father of capitalism due to his work in political economics‚ specifically production‚
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SCIENTIFIC INVENTION ASSEMBLY LINE: Primitive assembly line production was first used in 1901 by Ran some Eli Olds (1864-1950)‚ an early car-maker (he manufactured the Oldsmobile‚ the first commercially successful American car). Henry Ford (1863-1947) used the first conveyor belt-based assembly-line in his car factory in 1913-14 in Ford’s Highland Park‚ Michigan plant. This type of production greatly reduced the amount of time taken to put each car together (93 minutes for a Model T) from its
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distribution‚ Thomas Edison ’s direct current was the standard for the United States‚ and Edison was not disposed to lose all his patent royalties. Direct current worked well for the incandescent lamps that were the principal load of the day. However‚ from his work with rotary magnetic fields‚ Nikola Tesla devised a system for generation‚ transmission‚ and use of AC power. He partnered with George Westinghouse to commercialize this system. This sparked a massive business rivalry between Edison ’s General
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THOMAS ALVA EDISAN Thomas Alva Edison (February 11‚ 1847 – October 18‚ 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world‚ including the phonograph‚ the motion picture camera‚ and a long-lasting‚ practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park"‚[1] he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention‚ and because of that‚ he is often
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in media throughout society would be phones that that have recording device such as cameras to record or document different things. To add to the transfer of this recorded or documented moment in time‚ that phone would need an internet connection” (Thomas 2010). It is because of the face that society is ever changing that today’s media is forced to change along with ever changing technology. The technological advances often seem as though they are changing every day and that is because they are.
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computers‚ motor vehicles and the telephone. Electricity was not discovered by one scientist‚ but by various scientists who built on the knowledge they have of it. These were scientist such as Benjamin Franklin‚ Alessandro Volta‚ Michael Faraday‚ Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity with his famous kite-flying experiments in 1752. Alessandro Volta‚ an Italian scientist in 1800 soaked paper in salt water‚ placed zinc and copper on opposite sides of the paper
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George Westinghouse II The Westinghausen family tree stretches back to that of the ninth century in Westphalia‚ Germany. Some of the family decided to emigrate to Europe and later settle in the United States. In the nineteenth century‚ George Westinghouse decided to move all over the former United States and settled in Central Bridge‚ New York where he had George Westinghouse II. Born into a family of ten (which would become twelve later on) on October 16‚ 1846‚ George Westinghouse Jr. (son of
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This quote was said by the famous American inventor and scientist Thomas Alva Edison. Planning had played such a huge role in this man’s success in life. Because he planned in his life‚ today we have the electric bulb‚ video camera and 2330 other devices‚ all invented by him. In today’s highly competitive world‚ the keyword‚ ‘success’ has become the parameter to measure and judge a person. Great renowned successes like Edison‚ Madam Curie‚ Einstein and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan worked diligently
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