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1940s' Scientific and Technological Developments

The discovery in the 1940s that ticks are attracted to a cloth which had been impregnated with the scent of a dog (Miller, 1996), ...

Microwave Invention

by Dr. Percy Spencer of the Raytheon Corporation to have the capability of melting certain objects (UCSB, 2002). When Dr. Spencer...

Nineteenth Century Inventions

Inc., 2003). As an example we note that such inventors of the Middle Ages "could not generalize from a water wheel to the theory o...

Analysis of a Margaret Mead Article

the result of mans nature and seeing it as the result of a struggle between developing societies: that, Mead says, is the idea of ...

Sewing Machine and its Influence

to adorn the body. Yet, at the time that the sewing machine was developed, the nation was readying itself for war. In fact, the ma...

The Printing Press

make a huge difference. One author notes, for example how "The dissemination of information suddenly became easy, affordable, acce...

Longitude by Dava Sobel

of the same size, so they all converge at the ends of the earth" (2). Another pertinent difference that Sobel points out...

How Technological Progress Has Improved Society

In eight pages this paper discusses various inventions to illustrate how technology especially in transportation and communication...

Post First World War Technology

spurring private industry; both the military and private enterprise then feed each other with information and inspiration. When ...

Comparison of the Inventions of Computers and Trains

This essay consists of fifteen pages and considers whether the computer or the train was the more significant invention in terms o...

Early Manufacturing and Nikola Tesla

Of all Teslas inventions and refinements, perhaps electric motors and wireless communication had the greatest impact on manufactur...

Cocaine and its History

"stimulant, aid to digestion, aphrodisiac and life-extender" (Appelboom, 1991)....

Digital Communication Evolution

In five pages the ways in which digital communications have evolved since the Morse code invention to complex digital voice and te...

Radio and its History

In five pages this research paper discusses Marconi's invention of the radio in an historical overview that includes its 'Golden A...

History of TV Technology

and current events. Television has of course been significantly refined from those very first efforts at image transmission...

Media and Inventions of Thomas Edison

In ten pages this paper uses the lifestyle of the Amish as an example of a consideration as to whether or not society has been imp...

Printing Press and WWW Information Sharing

In five pages the inventions of the printing press and the Internet are contrasted and compared. There are 6 sources cited in the...

The Nitroglycerin Invention and Alfred Nobel

In a paper consisting of seven pages Nobel's invention of dynamite and the ways it was used scientifically and industrially along ...

Grade Retention 20th Century Events

These researchers report that just 5 percent of 169 studies analyzed reported significant benefits for the retained students while...

GERMANY, TECHNOLOGY AND THE GUTENBERG PRINTING PRESS

country (History of Germany). The Hanseatic towns, as they were eventually termed (they eventually became the Hanseatic League), e...

Mead on Warfare

that the tendency to engage in wars is a human invention, and that the inevitable result of innate human tendencies or instincts. ...

Fauvism and Henri Matisse

In thirteen pages this paper examines the artistry of Henri Matisse as it involves the invention of the Fauvist movement and its e...

Analysis of the Fool in in William Shakespeare's King Lear

In four pages this character analysis of the fool character in King Lear makes reference to Shakespeare The Invention of the Huma...

Machine Gun Technology and Warfare

speak in terms of military science. The systematic application of science to the development of weapons and to technology in gener...

Color Photography History

were due to differences in the molecular structure. Subsequently, a lot of research was done to find various silver salts sensitiv...

Vacuum Cleaners That Work Automatically

In five pages the invention of autonomous vacuum cleaners is considered in terms of impact upon the workplace and the home. Five ...

US Society and Television's Impact

television," 2006). He had already been given a patent for "the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and ra...

Synthetic Cubism and the Works of Pablo Picasso

28). Similarly, it has been stated that abstract art grew out of the virtual disappearance of the recognizable nude or still lif...

Wireless Communication's History

cars. Even air conditioners come with remotes. The list is endless. It is estimated that wireless penetration now exceeds one in f...

A Historical Overview of the Alphabet

This paper addresses the history of the modern alphabet and discusses the importance of writing as an invention that helped mankin...