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Author : Michael Pollard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0816031452
Examines the electric bulb, an invention that ultimately led to new uses of electricity.
Author : Michael Pollard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electric lighting
ISBN : 0750015152
A look at how the invention of the lightbulb has changed the world
Author : Ernest Freeberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781101605479
A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
Author : Diane Bailey
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629697697
How the Light Bulb Changed History examines the invention of the light bulb, how it works, and how electric light changed the way people live and work. Features include essential facts, a glossary, selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and maps, charts, and diagrams. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Matt Ridley,Stephen Davies
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780255367868
Almost every schoolchild learns that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. But did he? And if he hadn’t invented it, would we be still living in the dark? Acclaimed author Matt Ridley (The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything) explains that at least 20 other people can lay claim to this breakthrough moment. Ridley argues that the light bulb emerged from the combined technologies and accumulated knowledge of the day – it was bound to emerge sooner or later. Based on his 2018 Hayek Memorial Lecture, Ridley contends that innovation – from invention through to development and commercialisation – is the most important unsolved problem in all of human society. We rely on it – but we do not fully understand it, we cannot predict it and we cannot direct it. In How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to Change the World? Ridley examines the nature of innovation – and how people often fear its consequences. He dispels the myth that automation destroys jobs – and demonstrates how innovation leads to economic growth. And he argues that intellectual property rights, originally intended to encourage innovation, are now being used by big business to defend their monopolies. Ridley concludes that innovation is a mysterious and under-appreciated process that we discuss too rarely, hamper too much and value too little.
Author : Emily Rose Oachs
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781681037028
Many consider Thomas Edison the inventor of the light bulb, but this world-changing invention has a long history. Since the 19th century, many have worked to create and improve the light bulb. Starting from the light bulb’s early development all the way up to its modern uses, this informative title will fascinate anyone who wants to know about the invention that lights up the world!
Author : David K. Randall
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393083934
An engrossing examination of the science behind the little-known world of sleep. Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange science of sleep. In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives. Taking readers from military battlefields to children’s bedrooms, Dreamland shows that sleep isn't as simple as it seems. Why did the results of one sleep study change the bookmakers’ odds for certain Monday Night Football games? Do women sleep differently than men? And if you happen to kill someone while you are sleepwalking, does that count as murder? This book is a tour of the often odd, sometimes disturbing, and always fascinating things that go on in the peculiar world of sleep. You’ll never look at your pillow the same way again.
Author : Joseph E. Wallace
Publisher : Atheneum Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electric Lighting
ISBN : 0689828160
Series focuses on inventions we often take for granted and how they have changed our lives.
Author : Matthew Elkin
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502632913
This mind-blowing volume explores the fascinating stories behind innovations that play an integral part in our lives. From cement to LEDs and the alphabet to 3D printing, the book explains the science behind ground-breaking inventions while emphasizing the evolution of the scientific method. The book is packed with full-color photographs, interesting facts, and important vocabulary terms.
Author : James Wei
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118342732
GREAT INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Discover the inventions that have made our world what it is today A great invention opens the door to a new era in human history. The stone axe, for example, invented some 2 million years ago in East Africa, enabled us to enter the human path of endless improvements through inventions. The taming of fire enabled us to cook food as well as leave the warmth of Africa and move to the frigid lands of the North. From the stone axe to the computer and the Internet, this book provides a fascinating tour of the most important inventions and inventors throughout history. You’ll discover the landmark achievements and the men and women that made the world what it is today. Great Inventions That Changed the World is written by Professor James Wei, a renowned educator and engineer who holds several patents for his own inventions. Following an introductory chapter examining the role of inventors and inventions in fueling innovation and global advancement, the book is organized to show how inventions are spurred by human needs and desires, including: Work Food, clothing, and housing Health and reproduction Security Transportation Information The good life As you progress through the book, you’ll not only learn about inventions and inventors, but also the impact they have had on our lives and the society and environment in which we live today. Inventions solve problems, but as this book so expertly demonstrates, they can also directly or indirectly create new problems as well, from pollution to global warming to bioterrorism. By enabling us to understand the impact of inventions throughout history, this book can help guide the next generation of citizens, decision makers, and inventors.
Author : Jane Brox
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547487151
This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its title” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In Brilliant, Jane Brox explores humankind’s ever-changing relationship to artificial light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. More than a survey of technological development, this sweeping history reveals how artificial light changed our world, and how those social and cultural changes in turn led to the pursuit of more ways of spreading, maintaining, and controlling light. Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn’t—through the centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She identifies the pursuit of whale oil as the first time the need for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world’s ecosystems. Edison’s bulbs produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox’s informative portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light
Author : Chris Oxlade
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781406222784
Readers will learn the history of the invention of the light bulb in this title that includes information on the key players, the setbacks along the way, and the moments of discovery.
Author : Yolande Grizinski, Ed. d.
Publisher : Show What You Know Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781592301591
Offers a step-by-step process to improve students? Writing skills using research-based graphic organizers. More than 60 Writing prompts review the five communication processes: Narration, Description, Directions, Explanation, and Persuasion. Students write to the 11 modes of Writing: summary, fictional narrative, personal experience narrative, informational report, letter, invitation, thank-you note, letter to the editor, directions, persuasive paper, and journal.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781782405122
Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307432964
A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt us still. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize • Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize • Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and wildly idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflict peacefully, Wilson is only one of the larger-than-life characters who fill the pages of this extraordinary book. David Lloyd George, the gregarious and wily British prime minister, brought Winston Churchill and John Maynard Keynes. Lawrence of Arabia joined the Arab delegation. Ho Chi Minh, a kitchen assistant at the Ritz, submitted a petition for an independent Vietnam. For six months, Paris was effectively the center of the world as the peacemakers carved up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals, and prejudices of the men who shaped the settlement. They pushed Russia to the sidelines, alienated China, and dismissed the Arabs. They struggled with the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, and of a homeland for the Jews. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; above all they failed to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that they have unfairly been made the scapegoats for the mistakes of those who came later. She refutes received ideas about the path from Versailles to World War II and debunks the widely accepted notion that reparations imposed on the Germans were in large part responsible for the Second World War. Praise for Paris 1919 “It’s easy to get into a war, but ending it is a more arduous matter. It was never more so than in 1919, at the Paris Conference. . . . This is an enthralling book: detailed, fair, unfailingly lively. Professor MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift.” —Allan Massie, The Daily Telegraph (London)
