Essays Tagged: "Invention"

Evelution of Satalites

The satellite is probably the most useful invention since the wheel. Satellites have the capability to let you talk with someone across the na ...

(4 pages) 93 0 4.4 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Odyseus

Heroism was not an invention of the Greeks. Yet, through the first hundreds years of their civilization, the Greek lite ...

(5 pages) 110 2 2.1 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

The History and Future of Computers

ervices via telephone lines.The primitive start of the computer came about around 4000 BC; with the invention of the abacus, by the Chinese. It was a rack with beads strung on wires that could be move ... results. A working model was built in 1822 and fabrication began inGash 21823. Babbage works on his invention for 10 years when he lost interest in it. His loss of interest was caused by a new idea he ...

(4 pages) 189 3 3.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Censorship

r are the pro's andcon's in the music and entertainment industry about censorship. Since its invention earlier this century, television has become the most popularformat for entertainment. We c ...

(3 pages) 111 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Advanced Technology of todays society using Arthur Miller litt as perspective.

aintain. The advantages have made life much more convenient and comfortable for mankind. Before the invention of the air conditioner, people were forced to live and work in unfit and extremely hot tem ...

(2 pages) 93 0 4.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

The North Doesn't Need the South Why didnt the north need the south at the time of the civil war...

pansion can be traced directly to the American Industrial Revolution. Our good friend Eli Whitney's invention had began in the south. He realized that they would not readily accept change and decided ...

(1 pages) 62 2 3.7 Mar/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

Gamer's taste Xbox Vs.GameCube

uality of console system and better games that are focused on today's teenagers. Also Xbox is grand invention from Microsoft Company with brilliant ideas that will be sweet to the gamer's taste.Xbox's ...

(2 pages) 93 1 3.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Nikola Tesla

as shortly employed in agovernment telegraph engineering office in Budapest, where he made his firstinvention, a telephone repeater. Tesla sailed to America in 1884, arriving in NewYork City with four ... head ofthe Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh, bought the patent rights to manyof Tesla's inventions. After a difficult period, during which Tesla invented butlost his rights to many inventi ...

(4 pages) 80 0 3.7 Jan/1994

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Canada's Copyright Law

ed aspect of the copyright law, is thecopying of audio tapes for oneself and friends. Thanks to the invention of dualcassette stereos, this has become very easy. You simply take an original or evenano ...

(3 pages) 73 1 3.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Artificial heart devices

l to withstand the rigors of surgery. However, the innate human desire to achieve brought about the invention of the artificial heart. The potential for such inventions are enormous. According to the ... economic factors that accompany these new innovations to humanity. Who will receive these brilliant inventions? Obviously not all of the patients will get transplants, so selection criteria must be es ...

(7 pages) 109 0 3.3 Nov/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

Did the 1920s really roar? Some call the 1920s "The Roaring 20s". In this essay we will talk about some factors that prove the 1920s was a time of prosperity in Canada.

d were doing quite well therefore the people have money to spend. The 1920s was also a time for new inventions and technology, such as the invention of the assembly line, which made production much ch ... so brought the economy up by creating businesses and jobs.The 1920s was also a time of exciting new inventions to make life much more convenient. New technology was widely used by the general public. ...

(3 pages) 107 1 3.7 May/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Mind and Machine, an essay on A.I

Technology has traditionally evolved as the result of human needs. Invention, when prized and rewarded, will invariably rise-up to meet the free market demands of soci ... s complexity of operation, must function something like a computer, the most sophisticated of human invention. The second WAT proposition states that if a machine's output, if it were compared to that ...

(9 pages) 433 0 3.5 Oct/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

VR, What it is and How it Works

lk through space and connect molecules together.These are some of the dreams that have come with theinvention of virtual reality. With the introduction ofcomputers, numerous applications have been enh ...

(1 pages) 52 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Radar

Today's society relies heavily on an invention taken for granted: radar. Just about everybody uses radar, whether they realize it or not. ...

(4 pages) 45 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Equality, an essay about Technology

lite, eagerly waiting theannouncement of what the rumor mill had told them to be the most important inventionof the decade. The air was cold and damp, like that of a hospital. Barley audible was themo ...

(4 pages) 72 0 3.5 Oct/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

A Brief History of Library Automation

omputer age created devices to assist with their book lendingsystems. Even as far back as 1588, the invention of the French 'BookWheel' allowed scholars to rotate between books by stepping on a pedalt ... ncement of technology lead to increases in the use ofcomputers in libraries. In 1961, a significant invention by bothRobert Noyce of Intel and Jack Kirby of Texas Instruments, workingindependently, wa ...

(6 pages) 103 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Library & Information Science

History of Advertising

ch advertised travelers to go to a tavern situated in another town.In about the 1440's there was an invention of a movable-type of advertising which was a printing press. In the 16th century some comp ... rovements which made transportation, communication and graphics work easier, cheaper and better.The invention of electricity led to the illuminated outdoor poster, photoengraving and other modern prin ...

(2 pages) 190 2 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

The Influence of Technology In American History

much more efficient than any previous effort, but it was not until 1774 thathe was able to call his invention a practical success.Their were two major developments that were born from the steam engine ... y until 1833, within 30 years had grown to be the largestrailroad center in the world.Another great invention that had an enormous influence economically, politically, and sociallywas the telegraph. A ...

(3 pages) 98 1 3.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Development of the Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile

ise targeting of weaponry. One of the more sophisticated developments in naval history has been the invention of the submarine. The submarine was born in 1620 as a leather-covered rowboat built by Cor ... ned. However, they remained unrealized for quite a while. Although Fulton probably foresaw that his invention would be used for war, he hardly could have envisioned it launching projectiles with the c ...

(6 pages) 36 0 4.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Effects of Living Together

oday's Families.'Detroit Free Press 18 October 1995: B17.) Although living together is not a recent invention, the relationship has yet to be legitimized with a respectable name. Existing terms such a ...

(4 pages) 163 0 3.8 Mar/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community