D B Q PAGE 353 Write a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A–H and your knowledge of the period to answer the following question: To what extent is it justified to characterize the industrial leaders of the 1865–1900 era as either “robber barons” or “industrial statesmen”? DOCUMENT A. Q: How is the freight and passenger pool working? W.V.: Very satisfactorily. I don’t like that expression “pool‚” how- ever‚ that’s a common construction applied by the people to a
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time zones to keep train schedules‚ and they also make the Interstate Commerce Act to try to stop corruption that runs wild in the railroads. The Gilded Age also got its name for the amount of important inventions that came to be in that time. Thomas Edison was the best-known inventor of the Gilded Age. He invented the light bulb‚ a phonograph‚ a movie camera‚ and the first ever power plant. He used direct current at first‚ which was not very safe but the technology for an upgrade ha not been invented
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organizing assets and investments coined the term “Morganization.” Due to his reputation for doing exactly what needed to be done when it needed to be‚ he was chosen to stabilize the railroad industry‚ Carnegie Steel Company‚ and the merger between Edison
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I put some soup in front of him‚and before I could say anything‚he said‚ "I need to wait for it to cool off."He had learned to be more patient.Finally‚ I believe that scientific dicoveries are all examples of people learning from mistakes.Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb by following a plan straight from beginning to end.Instead ‚he tried different experiments based on what he knew.Sometimes‚these experiments failed.But he did not quit;he learned what he did wrong and tried something
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I was titled Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System. The title gives up the purpose of the book. In the book Latimer explained how the incandescent light bulb worked‚ more about how it produced light.But with all these talents this book wasn’t the only thing that Latimer had written‚ for Latimer
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Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products‚ services‚ processes – and even strategy. Thinking by Tim Brown Photos courtesy of IDEO T HOMAS EDISON created the electric lightbulb and then wrapped an entire industry around it. The lightbulb is most often thought of as his signature invention‚ but Edison understood that the bulb was little more than a parlor trick without a system of electric power generation and transmission to make it truly useful. So he created that‚
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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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