Garrett Augustus Morgan was born in Paris‚ Kentucky on March 4‚ 1877. At the age of fourteen his family moved to Cleveland‚ Ohio. He was born in poverty and only achieved grade school. Garrett started inventing at the age of twenty. His first invention was a belt fastener for a sewing machine. The invention was sold for $150 dollars. By 1907‚ he had started a sewing machine and repair store (William‚ 2010). Later in 1909‚ he turned his repair shop into a tailor shop. However‚ during a tragedy in
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Civilizations require energy to prosper. Humans harnessed energy from the sun to cultivate crops and live in one place‚ allowing settlements to come to be. Without the need for everybody to hunt and contribute‚ people could specialize in other skills such as science and art. New technologies were created to work for humans‚ facilitate living and further reduce the need for human labour. Without the expense of human energy‚ there is the requirement of other energies to power human creations. Humanity
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Introduction and topic sentence (first paragraph) Irene Joliot-Curie‚ daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie‚ carried the Curie name after her parents died. Irène Curie went on to become Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry. Irène Curie worked together with her mother to provide mobile X-ray units during World War I. She resumed her studies at the university in Paris after the war and later worked at the institute that her parents had founded. It was there that she conducted her Nobel Prize-awarded
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Science and technology in the 1950s During the 1950s‚ science and technology were improved with the cooperation between the scientists and the U.S. government. In the light of the science and technology‚ people have the power to raise their knowledge. However‚ in the 1950s‚ some of the researches and investigations were classified as top secret‚ and remained unknown to the public for many years‚ now Americans can see its repercussions in the world today. Making hydrogen bomb and the discovery of
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The A-Bomb‚ one of the most deadly bombs in history‚ was being researched by Hitler. He would have beaten America to it if it weren’t for Einstein’s letter to President Roosevelt. Although Einstein later regretted sending the letter‚ It prioritized the production of the bomb using a famous scientist’s reputation‚ increased interest in a bomb and started work on the bomb. If he had not sent the letter‚ America may have not built the bomb in time to stop Japan‚ possibly not at all. At the
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The Tsar bomb it is the most destructive and beautiful of all weapons of mass destruction.If this bomb were to explode at its maximum payload on the white house‚ there would be an estimated 2‚389‚920 fatalities 1‚599‚100 injuries the radioactive fallout would stretch to almost Pointe-sud-Ouest Canada. Only an estimated 3 have been made. The tsar bomba is a nuclear weapon created by the USSR its true name is the RDS-220 (big ivan). To put the bomb into perspective the tsar bomb is almost 6667 times
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I know many people‚ if they could get almost infinite energy for almost nothing‚ they would probably do it. But Nuclear Fusion‚ unlike its cousin‚ Nuclear Fission‚ is quite difficult to achieve. Nuclear fission is the process of splitting large atoms‚ usually Uranium 235‚ to produce massive amounts of energy. The process enacted within all nuclear power plants is Nuclear Fission. Nuclear Fusion‚ on the other hand‚ is the exact opposite; Taking small atoms such as Hydrogen and pushing them together
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During World War II‚ many Americans had to change their lives to support the war effort. Americans wanted to support and stay loyal to their country‚ so they would do anything for it. The war changed the lives for Americans in many different ways. Americans had to get new jobs that involved the war‚ they got new opportunities‚ and they helped raise money for the war. First of all‚ almost all Americans had to change or get a second job during World War II (Document 5). When World War II started‚ Americans
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Introduction In “The Radioactive Boy Scout”‚ by Ken Silverstein‚ a small town boy-named David Hahn-dives into the experimental world of not only chemistry but nuclear engineering. In this atomic novel the reader delves deep into the world of a child prodigy and the tale of nuclear romance. This radioactive account of a boy’s journey from small town chemist to a star-crossed engineer is nothing short of explosive. Key Idea 1 In the early chapters of the book David Hahn was found mixing various chemicals
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I would favor that chemistry and the atomic theory have been more beneficial to to the human race than not. It is in the favor of the world that the process of chemistry was developed by humans so that they can work towards a more enlightened future. The background of the atomic was that there were references to it back in the ancient world in such of Greece and India. These were more likely to be philosophical than that of the actual experimental‚ and it wasn’t until the late 19th century to the
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