Wilhelm Röntgen‚ a mechanical engineer and physicist in Germany on November 8‚ 1895 was working in a lab when he had saw some strange fluorescence coming from a table. On the table he found a tube covered in opaque black paper which he was using to study rays. He had concluded that the fluorescence that had gone through the opaque paper was caused by rays. Henri Becquerel used Roentgen’s discovery of rays through the fluorescence some materials produce. Becquerel did a experiment surrounding several
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attention that would eventually lead to world-spread fame. Following Daimler’s successful results in racing‚ a wealthy Austrian business man by the name of Emil Jellinek became interested in the Unterturkheim-built cars. Daimler and his chief-engineer‚ Wilhelm Maybach’s work had pleased Jellinek to the extent of him approaching the two with a business proposal: a large number of cars would be ordered in exchange to a name change from Daimler to Mercedes – Jellinek daughter’s name - and the right to alter
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Daimler AG (formerly DaimlerChrysler AG‚ formerly Daimler-Benz). Mercedes-Benz has its origins in Karl Benz’s creation of the first petrol-powered car‚ the Benz Patent Motorwagen‚ patented in January 1886‚[1] and by Gottlieb Daimler and engineer Wilhelm Maybach’s conversion of a stagecoach by the addition of a petrol engine later that year. The Mercedes automobile was first marketed in 1901 by Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft. The first Mercedes-Benz brand name vehicles were produced in 1926‚ following
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To Cheat Death It all begins with a poor man‚ a father‚ who has 12 children‚ with the 13th on the way. Knowing he cannot take care of his last child‚ he turns to another possible guardian‚ Death. In his hands‚ the child soon grows up to become a doctor‚ and along with Death‚ the main character. This story is “Godfather Death”‚ a great fable in which we learn that greed is the root of all evil‚ and that one cannot cheat death. The doctor is now Death’s Godson‚ and is the protagonist of this story
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1890 by Emil Von Behring who also discovered antitoxins)‚ typhoid fever (1896) and plague (1897). Likewise‚ there were many other extremely important and influential discoveries during the time of the revolution. X-rays were brought in in 1895 by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen and in 1899 aspirin was manufactured by Felix Hoffman. These were all major changes for the better and contributed to making diseases less deadly and more uncommon. Not only did medicine improve‚ hygiene was also modernized and undertook
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It has not been quite recently when I scheduled and fulfilled the observation requirement‚ but about a year ago this month when applying for this program last year. The amazing thing about it is that the memory of this day still remains vividly in my mind. It was on this day that I learned the basic and not so basic job requirements for becoming a radiology technologist. Many might think that this job is limited to aiming a machine‚ positioning a patient‚ and taking pictures of their bones‚ but come
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The Early Stages of Psychology Philip C. Allen PSY/310 May 3‚ 2012 Shruthi Vale The Early Stages of Psychology People have been searching for answers to life’s problems since the dawn of mankind. Humans would look to the stars for answers. They would look to nature for a cure. They even looked toward the heavens for gods to cure their ailments. Not until recently did we‚ as a race‚ begin to look toward
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Cinderella written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm is a revisionary version of Sapsorrow. In reading both tales‚ Sapsorrow is the pretext of Grimm’s Cinderella. The story of Sapsorrow is one of a sister who was treated very poorly by her “evil” sisters just as in Cinderella. The father in Sapsorrow who after their mother’s death was required to marry the very woman who’s finger his late wife’s ring would fit. During one of the sister’s bouts of treating Sapsorrow poorly again pretexting Cinderella
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interpreting‚ translation and explaining (Jay‚ 1982). The approach to hermeneutics changed after philosophers like Schleiermacher[2]‚ Dilthey and Droysen attempted to establish a better meaning for the word and use it to understand human beings. Wilhelm Dilthey broadened hermeneutics by taking it as a methodology that would cause us to better understand ‘human’ or ‘historical’ sciences‚ the Geisteswissenschaften (Malpas‚ 2003). The age-old question of
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Lafayette College in Easton‚ and his family supported Cattell’s education and his early desire to travel and work abroad. After graduating with a B.A. degree from Lafayette College in 1880‚ Cattell studied in Europe at Leipzig and at Gottingen under Wilhelm Wundt. Moving to England‚ Cattell worked with Sir Francis Galton‚ who strongly influenced him. Returning to the United States‚ he worked at Johns Hopkins University. From 1888 to 1891 Cattell held the first professorship in psychology at the University
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