From Immigrant To Inventor

Author : Michael Pupin
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781602069527

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From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Pupin Pdf

Michael Pupin's was a genuinely American story, the lifelong journey of a boy from rural Serbia, from a town so tiny it appeared on no maps, who became one of the greatest scientists of the early 20th century, changing the lives of people the world over with his technological innovations-he invented the therapeutic X-ray and made telephone communications practical and inexpensive-and helping to invent the modern world we know today. First published in 1922, Pupin's autobiography won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, but Pupin's insightful and incisive words are their own greatest recommendation. American physicist and writer MICHAEL IDVORSKY PUPIN (1858-1935) was born in Serbia and emigrated to the United States as a teenager. As a professor and researcher at Columbia University, he invented sonar and made important discoveries in the fields of X-ray physics and telecommunications.

Author : Michael Pupin
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547728962

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From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Pupin Pdf

The author, Michael Pupin is the subject of this book. He came to America as a Serbian immigrant and developed his skills in electro mechanics there. He states that the purpose of writing the book was "to describe the rise of idealism in American science, and particularly in physical sciences and the related industries."

Author : Michael Idvorsky Pupin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789871298

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From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin Pdf

Michael Idvorsky Pupin was a scientist and inventor whose important contributions include the long-distance telephone line, and advances in X-ray radiation. Pupin's route to renown was unconventional; born in the small village of Idvor in Serbia, he managed to emigrate to the United States at a young age. Nearly penniless upon arrival at Castle Garden in New York City, he spent five years working in a series of laboring and factory jobs, while learning languages in his spare time. The hardships he endured in this period - in which he dubs himself a 'greenhorn' - are detailed. Eventually he managed to pass the entrance tests for Columbia College, and tutors soon recognized his keen scientific aptitude and potential. This autobiography pays tribute to the Serbian culture, toward which Pupin strived to retain an affinity - despite becoming accustomed to the sophistication of America, his rural roots are fondly remembered. Indeed, the author is conscious of being a member of a cultured, urban intelligentsia, in sharp contrast to the humble country upbringing he had in his home country. Pupin's passion for science and innovation is evident as he describes travelling to further his studies in the Universities of Cambridge and Berlin. Keeping informed of advances in physics and chemistry, the newest advances in which served as groundwork for his own practical innovations.

Author : Marcus McArthur
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433369988

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Immigration Stories by Marcus McArthur Pdf

In this inspiring nonfiction book, readers will discover stories about immigrants that came to America from China, Poland, Peru, and the Dominican Republic. The alluring images and supportive text work in conjunction with the helpful glossary, index, and table of contents to engage readers and to enhance their understanding of the content.

Author : W. Bernard Carlson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691165615

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Tesla by W. Bernard Carlson Pdf

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain with his electrical demonstrations. An astute self-promoter and gifted showman, he cultivated a public image of the eccentric genius. Even at the end of his life when he was living in poverty, Tesla still attracted reporters to his annual birthday interview, regaling them with claims that he had invented a particle-beam weapon capable of bringing down enemy aircraft. Plenty of biographies glamorize Tesla and his eccentricities, but until now none has carefully examined what, how, and why he invented. In this groundbreaking book, W. Bernard Carlson demystifies the legendary inventor, placing him within the cultural and technological context of his time, and focusing on his inventions themselves as well as the creation and maintenance of his celebrity. Drawing on original documents from Tesla's private and public life, Carlson shows how he was an "idealist" inventor who sought the perfect experimental realization of a great idea or principle, and who skillfully sold his inventions to the public through mythmaking and illusion. This major biography sheds new light on Tesla's visionary approach to invention and the business strategies behind his most important technological breakthroughs.

Author : MICHAEL IDVORSKY. PUPIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033001910

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FROM IMMIGRANT TO INVENTOR by MICHAEL IDVORSKY. PUPIN Pdf

Author : Michael Pupin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542922461

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From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Pupin Pdf

Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Ph.D., LL.D. , pronounced 9 October 1858 - 12 March 1935), also known as Michael I. Pupin was a Serbian American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization"). Pupin was a founding member of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) on 3 March 1915, which later became NASA.

Author : David Jacques Gerber
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : 9780300123500

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The Inventor's Dilemma by David Jacques Gerber Pdf

The extraordinary life and career of the iconic twentieth-century inventor, technologist, and business magnate H. Joseph Gerber is described in a fascinating biography written by his son, David, based on unique access to unpublished sources. A Holocaust survivor whose early experiences shaped his ethos of invention, Gerber pioneered important developments in engineering, electronics, printing, apparel, aerospace, and numerous other areas, playing an essential role in the transformation of American industry. Gerber's story is remarkable and inspiring, and his method, redolent of Edison's and Sperry's, holds a key to a restored national economy and American creative vitality in the twenty-first century.

Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electrical engineers
ISBN : 9780756540869

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Nikola Tesla by Michael Burgan Pdf

A biography of Nikola Tesla, physicist, inventor, and electrical engineer.

Author : Michael Idvorsky Pupin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Inventors
ISBN : OCLC:48669628

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From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin Pdf

Author : Cary Fagan
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770893115

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A Bird's Eye by Cary Fagan Pdf

Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book. With all the wonder of a small-scale The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay comes this moving and unforgettable novel about childhood, love, and magic. Growing up in a Jewish neighbourhood in the 1930s, young Benjamin Kleeman falls in love, first with Corrine Foster and then with magic. Hiding his new passions from his parents — the long-suffering Bella, an Italian immigrant, and Jacob, a talented but failed inventor of elaborate mechanical devices — Benjamin begins apprenticeships in magic and life itself, learning along the way that everything is more complicated than it seems. With wit, tenderness, humour, and, startling beauty, Cary Fagan brings a gifted young man’s rise to a peculiar kind of stardom, wonderfully alive.

Author : Mary GrandPré
Publisher : Arthur A. Levine Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Competition (Psychology)
ISBN : 0439357640

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Cleonardo, the Little Inventor by Mary GrandPré Pdf

With the town's annual Grand Festival of Inventions coming up, Cleonardo is determined to invent something impressive to enter, something that will impress her inventor father Geonardo.

Author : Vanessa Manko
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698146440

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The Invention of Exile by Vanessa Manko Pdf

Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913, where he gets a job at a rifle factory. At the house where he rents a room, he falls in love with a woman named Julia, who becomes his wife and the mother of his three children. When Austin is wrongly accused of attending anarchist gatherings his limited grasp of English condemns him to his fate as a deportee, retreating with his new bride to his home in Russia, where he and his young family become embroiled in the Civil War and must flee once again, to Mexico. While Julia and the children are eventually able to return to the U.S., Austin becomes indefinitely stranded in Mexico City because of the black mark on his record. He keeps a daily correspondence with Julia, as they each exchange their hopes and fears for the future, and as they struggle to remain a family across a distance of two countries. Austin becomes convinced that his engineering designs will be awarded patents, thereby paving the way for the government to approve his return and award his long sought-after American citizenship. At the same time he becomes convinced that an FBI agent is monitoring his every move, with the intent of blocking any possible return to the United States. Austin and Julia's struggles build to crisis and heartrending resolution in this dazzling, sweeping debut. The novel is based in part on Vanessa Manko's family history and the life of a grandfather she never knew. Manko used this history as a jumping off point for the novel, which focuses on borders between the past and present, sanity and madness, while the very real U.S.-Mexico border looms. The novel also explores how loss reshapes and transforms lives. It is a deeply moving testament to the enduring power of family and the meaning of home.

Author : Kathleen Krull
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780062381149

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American Immigration: Our History, Our Stories by Kathleen Krull Pdf

Award-winning author Kathleen Krull takes an in-depth historical look at immigration in America—with remarkable stories of some of the immigrants who helped build this country. With its rich historical text, fascinating sidebars about many immigrants throughout time, an extensive source list and timeline, as well as captivating photos, American Immigration will become a go-to resource for every child, teacher, and librarian discussing the complex history of immigration. America is a nation of immigrants. People have come to the United States from around the world seeking a better life and more opportunities, and our country would not be what it is today without their contributions. From writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, to scientists like Albert Einstein, to innovators like Elon Musk, this book honors the immigrants who have changed the way we think, eat, and live. Their stories serve as powerful reminders of the progress we’ve made, and the work that is still left to be done.

Author : Lizann Flatt
Publisher : Uncovering the Past: Analyzing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 077871554X

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Immigration by Lizann Flatt Pdf

"Details the historical evidence that helps explain why there was a mass migration of people from around the world [to the U.S. from about 1820 to the early 1900s], and what they experienced during the process" --Page 4 of cover.