DGabe Kenworthy Mrs. Echols AP U.S History-3rd 6 December 2012 Annotated Bibliography Primary Sources: Tesla‚ Nikola‚ and David Hatcher Childress. The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla. New York: Adventures Unlimited P‚ 1993. This helpful book had descriptions and drawings of many of Tesla’s inventions and patents as well as providing modern descriptions and applications. It showed me how Tesla designed new devices to meet the challenges
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the rewards of success. There is a saying: "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." Wise words to think about. You need to take chances and try new things. If you fail take it as a learning experience and move forward. Edison tried 10‚000 times before he invented the electric light bulb. He did not look at is as 10‚000 failures‚ in fact he said‚ "I have not failed 10‚000 times. I have successfully discovered 10‚000 ways to NOT make a light bulb." He made something because
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Lights out If we never learned from our mistakes then the light in this room would never have been made by Thomas Edison’s awareness of the mistakes he was making he learned what not to do and then eventually made this happen. Lights on Hi I’m --------- and I like to learn from my mistakes‚ instead of bringing myself down‚ and I’d like to inspire you to do the same thing I’m going to tell you: why not learning from your mistakes is such a problem‚ show you some ways how to learn from your
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Benjamin Franklin once said‚ “Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What ’s a sundial in the shade?” 1 Throughout history there have been many amazing inventors who used their talents to innovate beyond their time period. People like Thomas Edison‚ Henry Ford‚ and Alexander Graham Bell were examples of such talented innovators with inventions that are in one way or another still used in today’s day to day life. To beat them all‚ Benjamin Franklin is famous not for one but multiple inventions
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forming the U.S Steel Corporation. U.S Steel Co. was the first billion dollar corporation. Other companies he was involved with consist of companies such as General Electric and Western Union Telegraph Company. J.P Morgan merged many companies such as Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Co. to make General Electric. He also merged Consolidated Steel and Wire Co.‚ and Carnegie Steel Company‚ along with other iron businesses to make the U.S Steel Corporation. J.P Morgan’s companies were
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verbally abused by my father as far as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen”‚ Lionel Messi “I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training”‚ Nelson Mandela‚ “I was in prison for 27 years”. Did you know that during Thomas Edison’s early years he was told that he was too imprudent to learn anything‚ he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough‚ even as an inventor he made 1000 unsuccessful attempts to make the light bulb? All of these people
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Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3‚ 1847 in Edinburgh‚ Scotland. Working through numerous experiments in sound and advancing his father’s work on Visible Speech for deaf people Bell acquired his education.To continue his study about the human voice he opened a workshop. He also did important work in communication for the deaf. Throughout his life he held more than 18 patents. Bell was one of the primary inventors of the telephone. Through many years of experimentation with sound waves he created
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General Electric or GE is a multifarious technology and financial services company; operating through energy‚ technology infrastructure‚ capital finance‚ as well as‚ consumer and industrial. The company was instituted in 1892‚ via the merger of Edison Electric Company and Thompson-Houston Electric Company. It has stomached the economic roller coaster for more than one hundred-thirty
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General Electric Internal/External Factors For over one hundred thirty years General Electric has helped shape this country to the comforts known today. Their company motto “imagination at work” says it all. With their ability to adapt to the ever changing environment around them as lead the company’s success and drive over the years. In today’s corporate world you can not find a stronger company that has learned and changed through time. The following looks at how they survived and grew for
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The development of a society that relied on free enterprise and innovation led to new inventions and increasingly efficient businesses. These changes helped make the United States one of the world’s strongest economies and industrial centers. From Thomas Edison’s light bulb to Henry Ford’s affordable automobiles to Frederick Taylor’s time-study analysis‚ US innovations influenced business‚ industry‚ and technology in the United States throughout the 1900s and into the present. How does the business
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