The Greatest Invention In today’s modern world in which we live in‚ there are many things which we use from the mode of transportation‚ computers‚ cell phones‚ television‚ electricity and so many other things which we use in our everyday lives which make life easy. These things help to increase quality living but how many of us care to know the master minds behind the inventions of these things we use. In my opinion‚ the aeroplane is the greatest invention.
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Airplane 1 Running head: THE INVENTION OF THE AIRPLANE The Invention of The Airplane ENC 1101 Airplane 2 ABSTRACT The invention of airplane was a long process. It took lot of effort and patience. Leonardo Da Vinci did some research in the 1400’s that held the engineering of many gliders done by George Cayley‚ Otto Lilienthal and the Wrights brothers. George Cayley made the first glider capable of carrying a human. Otto Lilienthal marked the beginning of the experimental
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Internet Inventions Several inventions have changed the way people communicate with each other. From the old fashioned telegraph to today’s modern electronic forms of communicating‚ people have beencreating easier ways to correspond. Electronic communication‚ such as e-mail and other internet offerings‚ have created a cheap and incredibly fast communications system which is gaining steady popularity. E-mail is basically information‚ usually in letter form‚addressed to a destination on the internet
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Being one of the most significant inventions of the 1920s‚ the automobile drastically changed the lives of Americans for the better. It not only improved transportation‚ obviously‚ but it also gave the economy the boost it needed to provide America with the age of prosperity that the 20s is known for. The first automobile developed with a combustion engine was invented by Henry Ford who later founded the Ford Motor Company‚ which was known for its achievements in bringing America its first affordable
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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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The invention of the balloon was a very unique idea that triggered the technological ear on a race to change the face of the future of flights. The invention shifted mobility towards a faster level and it also gave a good advantage in the war. Since history people have been finding ways to fly and balloon was the first technology that ever took off in the air. Scientist in the past has put a lot of studies to make this invention possible and it gave birth to a new flight technology. A French
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Invention Of the Computer By Kenneth H. Russell The invention of the personal computer took place about 50 years ago. Steve Jobs and others had developed the Apple+. Since then the whole world has affected by it in the following ways: 1. Computers balance financial transactions such as our personal bank account. 2. On a larger scale the IRS keeps track of every American in a variety ways by computer. 3. Our intelligence services keep track of people by computer who would do us harm. 4. Computers
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Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball. How he became a Civil War hero while baseball was growing in America. But sadly‚ this is not true at all. Doubleday was still involved in the war in West Point‚ and claimed he had nothing to do with the invention of baseball. The story was told around by a former major league player Aj Spalding claiming he got the story from Abner Graves‚ a mining engineer. Later on major league officials talk and rely on the myth and then put it in the Baseball Hall of Fame
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The Invention of Jay Gatsby Mckenzie Hart 03.03.05 "It was a testimony to the romantic speculation that he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that is was necessary to whisper about in this world." (48) States the narrator‚ illustrating the attractiveness to attention and gossip of a party host. The quote comments on a conversation of two woman gossiping about the mysterious host named Gatsby. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby‚ a young
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The 1920’s brought new inventions‚ a new economy‚ a new culture‚ new threats‚ and new laws which all influenced the nickname of the Roaring Twenties. The invention of the assembly line by Henry Ford in 1913 began the automobile industry in America leading to a boom in the industrial industries. The moving assembly line became a standard for most American factories allowing mass production of products including cars‚ appliances‚ furniture‚ and clothing. With the inventions of the electric motor‚ washing
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