The Invention of the Radio Technology, Society and Culture HUMN 432_Online In his book, To Light Such a Candle, Keith Laidler provides a history of inventors and technologies. In his book, he explains how Guglielmo Marconi, Marchese, an Italian physicist is credited with the invention of the radio. Laidler, goes on to explain how Marconi’s invention was preceded by the great technological successes of James Clerk Maxwell, Oliver Lodge, Heinrich Hertz and Samuel Morse whose inventions aided Marconi in the development of the radio (Laidler, 1998). James Clerk Maxwell developed the theory of electromagnetic radiation and wrote a paper about it in 1861 (Laidler, 1998, p.179). Oliver Lodge successfully demonstrated, in an experiment, in 1887 radio transmission of an electromagnetic wave from one location to another (Laidler, 1998, p.186).
It was not until many years later in 1947, AT&T’s research arm, Bell Labs, introduced the idea of cellular communications (Web Corp.). Then in 1954, researchers with communications giant, Motorola, began work developing portable communication products. In 1967, one of those researchers, Martin Cooper, invented the portable handheld police radios used by the Chicago police department (Web Corp.). In “Biography: Martin Cooper,” George Leard writes that Cooper was born in Chicago, IL on December 26, 1928, and earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Thanks to Cooper’s invention, Motorola and Bell Labs were now in a race to incorporate the new technology into portable devices (Web Corp.).
They didn’t even know if school would still be around now; they thought that teaching would fail, all together giving up on education. Students didn’t have computers or pens; they had chalkboards and ink pens to work with. In the 1900s every student would have to walk miles to reach the school, if your family was privileged or worked on a farm and had a horse, you could then ride the horse to school, but only the males; females were not allowed to ride. There was one stove in the very front of the classroom for when it was cold. Could you imagine having one stove to heat and warm up an entire room?
The flag was also made for the pennsylvania navy. The flag was to have 13 stripes. In 1942 the u.s congress made a code for the American Flag. Lastly, George Washington asked Betsy Ross to make the very first American flag. The flag has been around 200 years.
Historical Recount of Marco Polo’s Travels Marco Polo(1254-1324) was an Italian merchant who travelled the world famous “Silk Road” and connected the European and Asian civilisations. (timeline) Marco Polo was born in Venice to the son of a rich family, who provided him with a good education, especially in language: Italian and French, literacy skills and arithmetics. In 1271, when Marco was seventeen, he joined his father, Nicolo Polo and uncle, Maffeo Polo on their second trip to the East. This time they changed the route and passed through Armenia, Persia, Afghanistan, the Pamier mountains and finally they reached the Gobi desert. After this long journey of three years, they arrived in China and met Kublai Khan.
Telephones and cell phones have changed the course of history for communication, by allowing an instant and easy way to communicate from a candlestick telephone, to modern advanced smart phones. Telecommunications would not exist if it was not for Alexander Graham Bell. Born in Scotland in 1847, Alexander Bell grew up with an interest in the Education of Deaf people. To pursue his education, Bell moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States of America. While in Boston working with the deaf, Alexander Bell created the microphone (Bell’s Telephone).
Being that his parents didn't know much about the American school system, he couldn't know much about it, and he continued to attend the vocational program not knowing that he shouldn't be in it. Rose shares a lot in this piece about his child hood but only tell events that the reader should know. This draws the line between "personal" and "private". This was a personal piece by Mike Rose. He never included any
Fubini’s Theorem Guido Fubini, born 19 Jan 1879 in Venice, Italy, died 6 June 1943 in New York, USA, was a great mathematician that added a great theorem to the concept of calculus. Guido Fubini's father Lazzaro Fubini was a mathematics teacher at the Scuola Macchinisti in Venice. Guido Fubini came from a mathematical background and was influenced by his father towards mathematics when he was young. In 1896, Fubini entered the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. There he was taught by Dini and Bianchi who quickly influenced Fubini to undertake research in geometry.
Unbroken is a story of the young guy’s childhood to survivor from the World War II. Louie Zamperini’s parents were an immigrant from Italy and his father was worked at railway track as an electrician and his mother was a house wife. Louie had an older brother name Pete, who was twenty months older than him. As a child Louie was not afraid of bullies, punishments, getting in trouble, and he always believed there he is able to everything in this world (7, 10). During his childhood he steals food from his neighbor, he drinks an alcohol at an age of eight, and he would run around the street of Torrance (10, 12).
Pascal decided to learn about geometry, a topic he had only heard of but never studied, in his spare time. By age thirteen, he had proven the 32nd proposition of Euclid and discovered an error in Rene Descartes geometry. His father put Pascal’s knowledge in mathematics towards hand totaling long columns of numbers to his job. Pascal later went on the create the pascaline, a device fourteen by five by three inches that could do calculations, which can now be considered the first mechanical calculator. In 1650, Pascal suddenly decided to avidly study religion, but returned to his previous lifestyle three years later, conducting experiments on the pressure exerted by gases and liquids, inventing the arithmetical triangle, and created the calculus of probabilities together with Fermat.