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...Edison's Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss, is one of the many science fiction novels published in the nineteenth century. Although science fiction was not at the time thought of as a distinct literary genre, it was a v...

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.... By the beginning of last century, everyone was snorting cocaine. Celebrities from Thomas Edison to Sarah Bernhart – not to mention Hollywood – ext... ...e beginning of last century, everyone was snorting cocaine. Celebrities from Thomas Edison to Sarah Bernhart – not to mention Hollywood – extolled t... ...odern implement was designed and tested by Harold Brown with the active support of Thomas Edison. Carlos McDonald and A. P. Rockwell contributed to... ...implement was designed and tested by Harold Brown with the active support of Thomas Edison. Carlos McDonald and A. P. Rockwell contributed to the en... ...istened bathroom tissues, each embossed with his name. Aptly named British plumber Thomas Crapper redesigned the modern toilet and received a serie... ...re than 35,000 volumes - out of 55,000 - went up in smoke, including two thirds of Thomas Jefferson's invaluable library. It was reconstructed, but... ...eers, including George Washington. Hanson was followed by Elias Boudinot (1783), Thomas Mifflin (1784), Richard Henry Lee (1785), Nathan Gorman ...

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...y. You're just wasting your time." And I'll bet there were many who told Thomas Edison his idea of the light bulb was ludicrous. How many times do ... ...'re just wasting your time." And I'll bet there were many who told Thomas Edison his idea of the light bulb was ludicrous. How many times do you th... ...Queen Isabella and that convinced her to finance his expedition. I'll bet Thomas Edison's belief in the existence of a method to artificially produ... ...sabella and that convinced her to finance his expedition. I'll bet Thomas Edison's belief in the existence of a method to artificially produce ligh... ...ns. He encouraged us to do the same and even greater things than he did. Thomas Edison had faith when he set out to find the right filament for the... ...encouraged us to do the same and even greater things than he did. Thomas Edison had faith when he set out to find the right filament for the light ...

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.... Nu po ţi reu şi de la prima încercare: nici în art ă, nici în ştiinţă. Thomas Edison a f ăcut 1750 (!) de experimente nereu şite, privind arderea... ... ţi reu şi de la prima încercare: nici în art ă, nici în ştiinţă. Thomas Edison a f ăcut 1750 (!) de experimente nereu şite, privind arderea filam...

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.... Nu po ţi reu şi de la prima încercare: nici în art ă, nici în ştiinţă. Thomas Edison a f ăcut 1750 (!) de experimente nereu şite, privind arderea... ... ţi reu şi de la prima încercare: nici în art ă, nici în ştiinţă. Thomas Edison a f ăcut 1750 (!) de experimente nereu şite, privind arderea filam...

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... English Physicist 53 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831 - 1879) Scottish Mathematician and Physicist 54 JOSEPH HENRY (1797 - 1878) American Physicist 54 THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847 - 1931) American Inventor 54 NIKOLA TESLA (1856 -1943) American Electrical Engineer 55 SAMUEL MORSE (1791 - 1872) American Inventor 55 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847 - 1922) Scottish-American Inventor...

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...LISH PHYSICIST 225 GEORGES LEMAITRE (1894 - 1966) BELGIAN ASTRONOMER AND PRIEST 227 GEORGE GAMOW (1904 - 1968) RUSSIAN-AMERICAN PHYSICIST 231 THOMAS GOLD (1920 - 2004) AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN ASTRONOMER 233 SIR FRED HOYLE (1915 - 2001)- ENGLISH ASTRONOMER. 235 CARL SAGAN (1934 - 1996) - AMERICAN ASTROPHYSICIST AND COSMOLOGIST 237 ARNO ALLAN PENZIAS (1933 - ) - A...

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...CARTES, FERMAT, EULER and GAUSS on MATHEMATICS. The AGE of VOLTA, OERSTED, DAVY, FARADAY and MAXWELL on ELECTROMAGNETISM. The AGE of MORSE, BELL, EDISON, HERTZ and MARCONI on COMMUNICATION. The AGE of MALPIGHI, VAN LEEUWENHOEK, VESALIUS, MONDINO, HARVEY and HOOKE on MICROSCOPY and ANATOMY. The AGE of LINNAEUS, CANDOLLE, CUVIER, OWEN and AGASSIZ on TAXONOMY and clas...

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... English Biochemist 364 Introduced paper chromatography with Archer J. Martin. DIFFUSION, DIALYSIS AND OSMOSIS AS AN ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUE 366 THOMAS GRAHAM (1805-1869) Scottish Physical Chemist 367 One of the founders of colloidal chemistry and physical chemistry. Pioneered diffusion, dialysis and osmosis as an analytical method. Identified the difference bet...

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...mad, of Buddha, of Jefferson, of Einstein.” -- “Was anybody opposed to Thomas Edison’s inventions, Chet?” —“I don’t think so. People only re... ... Buddha, of Jefferson, of Einstein.” -- “Was anybody opposed to Thomas Edison’s inventions, Chet?” —“I don’t think so. People only resist wh... ...f Notre Dame did you have your pick of seminaries?” —“Sure did. And like Thomas Aquinas, I chose the Dominicans.” —“Ray, what is it that has... ...ght Wreck. We don’t know how many potential Albert Einsteins, Bill Gateses, Thomas Edisons, Nelson Mandelas, Thomas Jeffersons and Colin Powells are ... ...ck. We don’t know how many potential Albert Einsteins, Bill Gateses, Thomas Edisons, Nelson Mandelas, Thomas Jeffersons and Colin Powells are living ...

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... would fill volumes. Suffice it here to single out two famous Americans, Thomas Jefferson for his belief in print power, and Benjamin Franklin for ... ...came off Caxton‘s press. They included Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales and Sir Thomas Mallory‘s Morte de Arthur. The first ―creative publisher,‖ Caxt... ...ther mechanical geniuses, such as Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. America in the late nineteenth century Almost half of t... ...echanical geniuses, such as Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. America in the late nineteenth century Almost half of this nat... ...ld‖ Ottmar Mergenthaler never acquired a title like preeminent inventor Thomas Edison‘s ―The Wizard of Menlo Park,‖ but it was Edison who dubbed M... ...ttmar Mergenthaler never acquired a title like preeminent inventor Thomas Edison‘s ―The Wizard of Menlo Park,‖ but it was Edison who dubbed Mergentha... ...most famous Europeans and Americans were Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson, Lee DeForest, William... ...mous Europeans and Americans were Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson, Lee DeForest, William S. Pal...

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... would fill volumes. Suffice it here to single out two famous Americans, Thomas Jefferson for his belief in print power, and Benjamin Franklin for ... ...came off Caxton‘s press. They included Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales and Sir Thomas Mallory‘s Morte de Arthur. The first ―creative publisher,‖ Caxton... ...ther mechanical geniuses, such as Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. America in the late nineteenth century Almost half of thi... ...echanical geniuses, such as Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. America in the late nineteenth century Almost half of this natio... ...ld‖ Ottmar Mergenthaler never acquired a title like preeminent inventor Thomas Edison‘s ―The Wizard of Menlo Park,‖ but it was Edison who dubbed M... ...Ottmar Mergenthaler never acquired a title like preeminent inventor Thomas Edison‘s ―The Wizard of Menlo Park,‖ but it was Edison who dubbed Mergenth... ...most famous Europeans and Americans were Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson, Lee DeForest, William... ...mous Europeans and Americans were Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson, Lee DeForest, William S. Pal...

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... behavior as being a clue to what a photon really is; a photon emitted from Thomas Edison's lamp is like a tone emitted from Eddie Cantor's banjo. ... ...or as being a clue to what a photon really is; a photon emitted from Thomas Edison's lamp is like a tone emitted from Eddie Cantor's banjo. Find it... ...ion to guide him when he presented his theory of the Universe; and just as Thomas Young did not know of the functional existence of rods (1866) nor ...

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...uch more interested in catching a football than in pitching woo. I guess my celibate life was pre-ordained!‖ —―I get the pun. I‘m sure Thomas... ...of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ American president Woodrow Wilson, who had also been the president of Princeton University, was dyslexic. Thomas... ...‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ American president Woodrow Wilson, who had also been the president of Princeton University, was dyslexic. Thomas Edison... ...in our unconscious minds, are we not really what we have accomplished? Whether it be as a loving Mother Theresa, a practical scientist such as Thomas... ...unconscious minds, are we not really what we have accomplished? Whether it be as a loving Mother Theresa, a practical scientist such as Thomas Edison... ...Y TO BE HAPPY ―Achieving universal happiness may be even more difficult than getting universal licensing for parents. You remember that your Thomas... ... 136 —"It seems like the sages have said the same thing throughout history. One of my favorites is a quote from Thomas...

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...__-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page i -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, August 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd... ... Preface: Comprised of at Least Jelly?, xi 1 Why Intellectual Property?, 1 2 Thomas Jefferson Writes a Letter, 17 3 The Second Enclosure Movement, 42 ... ...ly a tiny fraction of it is available online. (There is a fascinating set of Edison’s early films, for example.) Most of the material available online ... ...Chapter 1 16 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 16 2 Thomas Jefferson Writes a Letter ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 On August 13, 1813, Tho... ...ith rivalrous property, one person’s use precludes another’s. If I drink the Thomas Jefferson Writes a Letter 19 ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/... ...oice in a long series. 13 Even if one believes that intellectual property is Thomas Jefferson Writes a Letter 21 ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/...

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...arted when the child 49 was born. The Christian idea, as developed by Thomas Aquinas based on the ideas of Aristotle, was that boy babies got th... ...eption and girl babies got theirs 6 to 8 seeks after conception. Although Thomas seemed to settle on 40 days as being the magical moment. However an... ...p, thrown into the fire and burned.‘ ―Christian theologians, like Thomas Aquinas, approved of the inquisitional methods. ‗Wherefore if forge... ...arantees in your Constitution. Among your American deistic founders were: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Ethan Allen, Th... ...enced by the ‗freethinker‘ John Locke. John Adams, your second president, Thomas Jefferson, your third president, and James Madison, your fourth pres... ...ines of Henry Ford, the electric light and the other inventions of Thomas Edison, and the development of computers and the internet, Microsoft and G... ...ife or death. What is the value of human life? Mine or Einstein‘s, Thomas Edison‘s or Joe Doakes, Bill Gates‘ or Saddam Hussein‘s? Certainly not ev... ...are is not universal. Each country sets its own limits. How much would an Edison or an Einstein be worth? A Hitler or an Al Capone. A George W. Bush... ...tim in great pain who wants to die? Albert Einstein, Bill Gates or Thomas Edison? ―Or what about this question, based on their potential ...

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...ite of the illegals claiming that their human rights are being abused. As Thomas Hobbes observed centuries ago, the state must have absolute power to... ...hey only want the Jonas Salks when they are threatened by disease and the Thomas Jeffersons when they can no longer live under oppression. It goes ba... ...rs because superior people emerge within the culture and rise to the top. Edison, Einstein, Lincoln and Obama are such people. But it also occurs bec...

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...esus knew and could prevent Judah′s ″treachery″ or Peter′s ″apostasy″, or Thomas′ ″doubts″, but he would rather have Judah realize the ugliness of g... ...her have Judah realize the ugliness of greed, Peter be healed of fear and Thomas of his disbelief. The credit granted by Jesus to his transgressive ... ... people like Galilei, Newton, Descartes, Kant, Bohr, Gauss, Bach, Tolstoi, Edison, Einstein, Coanda, Brancusi, etc. who were perfectly balanced geniu...

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...ne and blueprints. 2. A dozen brands of early automobiles. 3. Everything Edison invented until he was nearly 60. Obviously there are many more. Th... ...intentionally invented to improve upon an existing technology (basically, Edison’s Gramophone). Market-wise, this was a major gamble: the improvemen... ... by new one. This is a change of paradigm (superbly described by the late Thomas Kuhn in his masterpiece: "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")... ...intentionally invented to improve upon an existing technology (basically, Edison’s Gramophone). Market-wise, this was a major gamble. The improvemen...

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...world (read: the church doctrine) and meritocratic (democratic) capitalism? Could Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica" (the world as the body of Chr... ... replaced by new one. This is a change of paradigm (superbly described by the late Thomas Kuhn in his masterpiece: "The Structure of Scientific Rev... ...duce us to other points of view ("what is it like to be someone else" to paraphrase Thomas Nagle). By providing a bridge between the subjective (inn... ... not only the social contract but, many will add, covenants with God or nature. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote in the "Summa Theologiae" that - since org... ... not only the social contract but, many will add, covenants with God or nature. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote in the "Summa Theologiae" that - since or... .... It was intentionally invented to improve upon an existing technology (basically, Edison’s Gramophone). Market-wise, this was a major gamble. The ...

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...world (read: the church doctrine) and meritocratic (democratic) capitalism? Could Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica" (the world as the body of Chr... ... replaced by new one. This is a change of paradigm (superbly described by the late Thomas Kuhn in his masterpiece: "The Structure of Scientific Rev... ...duce us to other points of view ("what is it like to be someone else" to paraphrase Thomas Nagle). By providing a bridge between the subjective (inn... ... not only the social contract but, many will add, covenants with God or nature. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote in the "Summa Theologiae" that - since org... ... not only the social contract but, many will add, covenants with God or nature. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote in the "Summa Theologiae" that - since or... .... It was intentionally invented to improve upon an existing technology (basically, Edison’s Gramophone). Market-wise, this was a major gamble. The ...

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...eel, or anything round would have to pay a fee to use it. What happened when Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the... ... anything round would have to pay a fee to use it. What happened when Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the legal ... ...heel, or anything round would have to pay a fee to use it. What happened when Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the ... ...r anything round would have to pay a fee to use it. What happened when Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the legal b... ... upon this: the willingness to die rather than being conquered and enslaved. Thomas Paine’s famous line: ‘Give me Liberty, or give me Death’, is the... ...ature tried to stop this European evil from spreading to the New World? Sir Thomas Gates, Virginia's deputy governor, bound for the colony, was shi... ... 1362 The illustrator who created the Coca Cola Santa Claus was Thomas Nast: a commercial artist who made his money posting nasty pol... ...uman species and the secret existence of undead filth. Why do you think Edison ‘invented’ a light bulb that is 99% inefficient? 99% of its en...

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...A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, It is designed in these pages to bring the reader fac...

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.......................................................................... 51 Thomas Ross, Jr. ............................................................. .......................................................................... 57 Thomas Rhodes ................................................................ .......................................................................... 79 Thomas Trevelyan ............................................................. ...anged me except for this: My lawyer, Kinsey Keene, was helping to land Old Thomas Rhodes for wrecking the bank, And the judge was a friend of Rhodes A... ...ow about me with eight children, And one coming, and the farm Mortgaged to Thomas Rhodes? And when I got home that night, (After listening to the stor... ... Lee Masters Walter Simmons MY parents thought that I would be As great as Edison or greater: For as a boy I made balloons And wondrous kites and toys...

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... man’s mind are the same machine, but of unequal capacities—like yours and Edison’s; like the African pygmy’s and Homer’s; like the Bushman’s and Bism... ...achine works just like the other animals’, but it is a better one and more Edisonian. Man, in the ox’s place, would go further, reason wider: he woul... ...ng pro cesses the same? I will illustrate further. If you should hand Mr. Edison a box which you caused to fly open by some concealed device he would... ... observed—then thought it out for himself. His process did not differ from Edison’s; he put this and that together and drew an inference—and the peg, ... ...nterbury T ale it gives account of King Alfred on his way to the shrine of Thomas Bucket. Chaucer was the father of English pottery. Chaucer was a bla... ...harles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great novelists. Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied law, he was... ...elves “justified in believing” that the young Shakespeare poached upon Sir Thomas Lucy’s deer preserves and got haled before that magistrate for it. B... ... happened into the thing that did happen, found no trouble in turning Sir Thomas Lucy into Mr. Justice Shallow. They have long ago convinced the worl... ...he world—on surmise and with out trustworthy evidence—that Shallow IS Sir Thomas. The next addition to the young Shakespeare’s Stratford history come...

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...Contents George Washington........................4 George Washington........................8 John Adams..................................9 Thomas Jefferson.........................16 Thomas Jefferson.........................21 James Madison............................27 James Madison............................31 James Monroe..............................35 Jame...

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...ngton........................8 John Adams..................................9 Thomas Jefferson.........................16 Thomas Jefferson................ ...ame the second President of the United States. His opponent in the election, Thomas Jefferson, had won the second greatest number of elec toral votes... ...ll possible success and duration consistent with the ends of His providence. Thomas Jefferson FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. WEDNESDA... ... come of the election of 1800 had been in doubt until late February because Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, the two leading candidates, each had rec... ...at is best, and give them a fa vorable issue for your peace and prosperity. Thomas Jefferson SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1805 The secon... ...iam Jennings Bryan on the issue of the gold standard in the currency. Thomas Edison’s new motion picture camera captured the events, and his gramophon...

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...nty-three times in the succeeding century and a half, a Jenkin (Will- iam, Thomas, Henry, or Robert) sat in the same place of humble honour. Of their ... ...of humble honour. Of their wealth we know that in the reign of Charles I., Thomas Jenkin of Eythorne was more than once in the market buying land, and... ...a at Sandgate. It had a chequered history before it fell into the hands of Thomas of Eythorne, having been sold and given from one to another – to the... ...ily of ‘Westward Ho!’ was born in 1727, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Frewen, of Church House, Northiam. The Jenkins had now been long eno... ...lliam, it was perhaps because he never married at all. The second brother, Thomas, who was employed in the General Post-Office, followed in all materi... ... Bazaar. ‘And the thought struck him,’ Mr. Ewing writes to me, ‘to exhibit Edison’s phonograph, then the very newest scientific marvel. The instrument...

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... Drago—(Ore 20,30)—LA LEGGE. ALHAMBRA—(Ore 20,30)—Spettacolo variato. SALA EDISON—Grandiosoo spettacolo Cinematografico: QUO VADIS?—Inaugurazione dell... ...M SOME ONE HAS REVEALED to the T ribune that I once suggested to Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, New York, that we get up a monument to Adam, ...