NEON Sir William Ramsay‚ a Scottish chemist‚ and Morris M. Travers‚ an English chemist‚ discovered neon. Another important person is Georges Claude‚ a French chemist‚ who invented neon lighting around (1870-1960). Claude showed his first neon sign at the Paris Exposition of 1910. And then sold the first neon advertising sign to a Paris barber two years later. Around the 1920s‚ neon lighting had become popular in many parts of the world. In 1922‚ the Haaxman brothers brought the first neon signs
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Did Nikola Tesla invent free energy before many years ? Serbian born engineer Nikola Tesla was a technological genius and radical inventor. His work on an alternating current power system‚ the fluorescent light bulb‚ remote control‚ and many other mass market inventions‚ revolutionized the twentieth century. But Tesla’s biggest project – his dream of providing energy to the world for free collapsed when his financial backers unexpectedly withdrew their support. Some believe that Tesla’s free energy
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Famous Thinkers PHL458 2/17/2014 Tiffany Faison Famous Thinkers When thinking of famous thinkers‚ people who reached deep into the far spaces of their minds‚ who used such creativity to imagine a world that seems so science fiction at their present time and then to find a way to make that dream‚ a reality. The two men who come to mind the most would be Bill Gates and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. These two men used their minds to think of a way to forge a path of innovation‚ Bill Gates revolutionized
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Case Study 5: General Electric Prices Clarence Burke began working for the heavy-equipment division of General Electric as soon as he graduated from college in 1926. Clarence was an energetic‚ hard-driving‚ and tenacious person and looked forward to a promising career at GE. The heavy electrical equipment division at GE was the oldest part of the company‚ around which the rest had been built‚ and it still accounted for a quarter of its sales. Moreover‚ GE dominated the heavy electrical equipment
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Powersouth is one of the most impactful co-op companies around. Founded in 1941‚ they have been supplying all the power needs of Alabama and the northwest part of Florida. They have helped many companies with their generation of electricity. While keeping a lot of families satisfied by giving them electricity. In the early 1900s‚ many people didn’t have as nearly as much access to appliances as we do today. In modern days we have multiple appliances in our homes that we use in our everyday lives
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Discussion 1 – Art 207 1. The Eiffel Tower was designed and built for the 1889 International Exhibit of Paris. Gustave Eiffel‚ was confident that his design would prove the French were serious engineers‚ not simply the “cultured” people. The tower was originally meant to stand for 20 years and then be disassembled and removed‚ which is why the pieces were bolted together upon assembly. The primary reason the Tower withstood the public cry to be removed is that it served as a radio tower and its
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Almost 90 years ago‚ the invention of television began with the story of 11 year-old boy‚ Philo Farnsworth. Unlike other boy‚ he was the smartest one and started developing his talent‚ especial in electricity‚ very early in his life. First of all‚ he was the first member in his family who discovered the electricity while they were traveling to find the new home. And in this land‚ he had a chance to get involved with every electric machine that he had known only from the books. In the new home‚ he
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Assignment 1 CJ HRM 533 Date: April 22‚ 2012 Geico Employees Insurance Company has been in existence since in 1936 and was founded by Leo and Lillian Goodwin. Geico was established to provide auto insurance for governmental employees in the entire United States. Geico was based on the idea the governmental employees were safer and more financially dependable then the general public. With this way of thinking Geico was able to cut out the middle man and saving the
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Many people were getting access to electricity‚ allowing them to be able to use and enjoy the new technologies of the 1920’s. The major advances in technology that occurred in the 1920’s in America were responsible for significant changes in the lifestyle of the typical citizen. More than half of American households had electricity and were buying new technology. Electricity was available to many people‚ which meant that they could buy technology‚ like appliances and radios‚ which made chores easier
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The third modern innovation is sound. People have been fascinated with sound ever since people started living in caves. A music ethnographer discovered that the paintings on the wall of a cave were in the most acoustically interesting part of the cave. This part of the cave had the strongest reverberation so it is speculated that early Neanderthals discovered the reverberation as well and experimented with it. This fascination with sound helped women in the workplace‚ aided in the civil rights movement
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