Samuel Slater: In 1790, a young English-born genius named Samuel Slater, employed by the Rhode Island merchant firm of Almy and Brown, began to spin cotton thread by machine in the first effective factory in the US. Migrated from Britain in 1789, having served as an apprentice under Richard Arkwright and then as a mill manager. He used his knowledge to build the first successful cotton-spinning mill in this country. Slater installed his machines in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where the first successful factory was constructed. 3.
Bell Laboratories invented the transistor. Edwin Land invented the Polaroid Land camera selling for $89.75. Holography, a technique that created three-dimensional images, was created by Dennis Gabor. In 1949 Physicist Harold Lyons built the first atomic clock which was accurate to within a few seconds over fifty years. In this same year cake mix was
For a few years, the senior Bell and Thomas Henderson collected royalties from the lease of telephone hardware to customers in the limited late 1870s Canadian market who either operated their own personal network infrastructure or subscribed to a third party telecommunications service provider. (Bell Canada, 2011) In 1879 Bell's father sold his Canadian rights to the National Bell Telephone Company, formed in Boston, Massachusetts earlier that year by the merger of Bell Telephone Company and International Bell Telephone Company, which in 1880 reorganized as the American Bell Telephone Company, initiating the Bell System. That same year the Canadian division was renamed "the Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd." and headed by U.S. executive Charles Fleetford Sise from Chicago who served as its first general manager. (Bell Canada, 2011) The first supplier of telephones to Bell was a company established by Thomas C. Cowherd and his son James H. Cowherd, in a three story brick building in Brantford, Ontario, creating Canada's first telephone factory. Thomas
He then decided to end painting in order to begin finding a way to improve long distance communication. This invention would eventually highly influence the Industrial Revolution in America. (art) In 1832, he met Charles Thomas Jackson who knew about electromagnetism. Morse developed the concept of a telegraph with a single wire. The original telegraph by Morse was submitted with his application for a patent is now at the National Museum of American History at
Henry Ford created new technology that nobody has ever seen before. Firstly, Henry Ford began to experiment with a horseless carriage in 1890 and completed his first car, the quadricycle, in about 1896. During the following years he tried unsuccessfully to get it into production. The Model T was his most recognized piece of technology. The Model T was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1909 through 1927.
Antonio Meucci was an Italian inventor and also a friend and associate of the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi. Meucci is best known for developing a voice communication apparatus which several sources credit as the first telephone. Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
OUR FOUNDING FATHER BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BRANDIE JACKSON COLLEGE AMERICA Benjamin Franklin our 6th president was born January 17, 1706, in Boston MA. His education was Boston Latin School 1714-1716. He was given the Copley award which is an award for outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science it was given by the Royal Society of London. Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity, and founded the first library. He was put to work at the age of 10 by his father making soap and candles; he didn’t like that too much, so he started writing newspapers with his brother.
With time brings progress, tomorrow will always be the future; making progressing the future. So is it progression or is it the future that makes us move toward tomorrow? The year was either 1832 or 1839, historians can’t be sure of the exact one, a man by the name of Robert Andersen from Scotland, invented a crude electric-powered carriage. In 1835, Thomas Davenport, from Brandon, Vermont, built a small-scale electric car. He also developed the first Direct Current (DC) motor.
Public Transportation has served the people of Boston for over one-hundred years, in the form of the T. According to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, “The city’s first electric streetcar was commissioned on January 1, 1889, connecting the Allston Railroad Depot, to Coolidge Corner and Park Square”. This was a direct result of a “race to build the first subway” between rivals: New York and Boston. Likewise, the priority at the time was to build an aesthetically pleasing subway, not one of a functional nature. As a result, the T has been built in inconvenient places with a low standard of quality, over time. The T may be the oldest public transportation system, yet it still runs like it is the oldest.
Evolution of Nokia and its Glory times Nokia has its roots from a wood pulp mill established in 1865 by Fredrik Idestam in Finland. A second mill was started in Nokia and three year later, it was transformed into a share holding company named “Nokia”. In 1960, Nokia diversified into electronics. The business was expanded by various mergers, such as Finnish Cable Works Ltd, a phone and power cable producer. In 1982, Nokia introduced the fully-digital local telephone exchangeand also the first car phone for the Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT).