/ B . b.bv.vbgvb;.Feynman‚ Richard Philips (1918-1988) Portions of this entry contributed by Leonardo Motta American physicist who was born in New York City on May 11‚ 1918. He grew up in Far Rockaway‚ Queens and when he was about 10‚ he started to buy old radios to use in his "personal laboratory‚" a collection of electric gadgets and components‚ and by the age of 12‚ he was already fixing radios in his neighborhood. Feynman related a number of entertaining and revealing vignettes from
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Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 in Brooklyn; in 1942 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton. Already displaying his brilliance‚ Feynman played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb through his work in the Manhattan Project. In 1945 he became a physics teacher at Cornell University‚ and in 1950 he became a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He‚ along with Sin-Itero and Julian Schwinger‚ received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work in the field of
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1) Feynman is almost outraged at the Brazilian education system and this is evident in several passages of his essay. Right from the beginning he exclaims‚ “I discovered a very strange phenomenon: I could as a question‚ which the students would answer immediately. But the next time I would ask the question—the same subject‚ and the same question‚ as far as I could tell—they couldn’t answer it at all!” (Austin). When first reading this‚ it can be quite puzzling‚ why couldn’t the students answer the
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It is hard not to enjoy this author. Richard Feynman is an extremely curious character with a lot of time on his hands. He obviously loved to explore the science world as an art. He won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for physics and was one of the greatest physicists of all time. Within the few chapters and pages that I have read‚ Richard Feynman was definitely a man with a huge sense of adventure and a very high intelligence. In the first chapter that I read (Testing Bloodhounds)‚ I thought that
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1. Introduction This report presents a study of the creative techniques of Richard Feynman‚ Richard Branson and Benoit Mandelbrot. The creative techniques that will be outlined are visualisation‚ art‚ breaking the rules of school‚ brainstorming‚ receptivity to ideas‚ throwing paperballs at nasyayers‚ and dreaming. Included in the report is a discussion relationship of the learning styles of Feynman‚ Branson and Mandelbrot with relation to the creative techniques each have used. There is a strong
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Top 10 Inventions in America • A clothes hanger‚ or coat hanger‚ is a device in the shape of human shoulders designed to facilitate the hanging of a coat‚ jacket‚ sweater‚ shirt‚ blouse or dress in a manner that prevents wrinkles‚ with a lower bar for the hanging of pants. Invented by albert park house in 1903. • Air-conditioning is mechanism designed to extract heat from an occupied space air temperature using a refrigeration cycle. It was made in 1902 by Willis Haviland Carrier. http://www
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Throughout history‚ there have been many technological advancements. During the late 19th century‚ or "The Age of the Machine‚" there have been many new inventions. One of these inventions include the typewriter. The typewriter was patented by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1868. Sholes is known as the first creator of the typewriter‚ while in fact‚ many before him have tried to accomplish that goal. Christopher Sholes was born in Mooresburg‚ Pennsylvania in 1918. He grew up in and went to school
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Dr. Feynman details the characteristics of nature. He describes nature as being incredibly complex‚ pointing to examples such as the movement of the planets around the sun and the movement of the tides. Yet‚ he is able to describe nature as being simple. For a potential reader this can be confusing‚ as something cannot simultaneously be simple and complex. It is through the understanding and the application of logic to mathematics‚ the physical laws‚ and other natural phenomena‚ that Feynman is able
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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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My Invention would be a way to keep children and surfers completely safe in water activities in the pool and the ocean. My product name is the magic bubble. What the target market is parents and experienced surfers. The product also has much potential to be marketed not only in the US but throughout the entire world. The Magic Bubble is built within a wet suit that is linked to a tube with string that can pulled at anytime that fills the back of the suit with a pocket of air that would potentially
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