The Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress Search by Keyword | Browse by Alphabetical Title List | Subject Index Motion Pictures | Edison Biography | Sound Recordings Prolific inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) has had a profound impact on modern life. In his lifetime, the Wizard of Menlo Park patented 1, 093 inventions, including ...

The Thomas A. Edison Papers is a place for students, teachers, inventors, historians, and other researchers to find reliable information about Edison's life, work, and world.

The Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Search by Keyword | Browse by Series | Subject | Name The online version of the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress will comprise a selection of approximately 4700 items (totaling about 38, 000 images). This second release contains about 4650 items consisting of correspondence, scientific notebooks, ...

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A Smithsonian photo-album providing a look into the latter half of the life of inventor Thomas Edison.

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The Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Search by Keyword | Browse by Series The online presentation of The Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress comprises about 6, 500 items, or approximately 50, 000 images, that document Morse's invention of the electromagnetic telegraph, his participation in the development of telegraph systems in the United States and ...

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James Watt by Andrew Carnegie New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. May, 1905. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Childhood and Youth Chapter 2: Glasgow To London-Return to Glasgow Chapter 3: Captured By Steam Chapter 4: Partnership with Roebuck Chapter 5: Boulton Partnership Chapter 6: Removal to Birmingham Chapter 7: Second Patent Chapter 8: The Record of the Steam Engine Chapter 9: Watt in Old Age ...

Superbrain of Africa He's developed the world's fastest computer --- and that's just the beginning He left school in Standard 8 and lived with his family in a refugee camp. But Nigerian Philip Emeagwali is now regarded as one of the world's best scientific brains --- a man who has won truckloads of awards and is worth a cool R200 million ... Tim O'Hagan reports from Cape Town, South Africa .

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James Watt by Thomas H. Marshall First Published 1925 by Leonard Parsons Ltd., and Printed in Great Britain by Morrison C Gibb Ltd., Ianfield, Edinburg CONTENTS I THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENGINEER II CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION III JAMES WATT, MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER IV THE GREAT INVENTION AND ITS PREDECESSORS V THE PARTNERSHIP OF WATT AND ROEBUCK VI MATTHEW BOULTON OF SOHO VII THE CREATION OF THE ...

Issue 1, 27th September 1995: Henry Bessemer, Man of Steel SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Links, heros, and stories from science and technology By Adam Hart-Davis. Picture Gallery Henry Bessemer, Man of Steel Most people, if they remember him at all, remember Henry Bessemer as a British steel man, the man who invented the Bessemer Converter, which could make 30 tons of high-grade steel in half an hour.

ANTONIO MEUCCI An invention none of us could live without, a tool of modern communications so basic that many of today's business and social activities would be inconceivable in its absence, the telephone, is at the center of a series of events so strange as to amount to a whodunit. Most of us were brought up on the story of Alexander Graham Bell, the romantic figure of an inventor with dash ...

Unit 2: Those Inventive Americans! Suggested Activities Samuel F. B. Morse Era 4: Expansion and Reform Samuel F. B. Morse was an artist by training and worked successfully as a portrait painter until the 1830s. This self-portrait was made when Morse was only twenty-one years old. Today, however, Morse is primarily remembered as the inventor of the electric telegraph and the related code system ...

A paper by Basilio Catania on Antonio Meucci 's priority in introducing inductive loading on long distance telephone lines ...

Article about John Holland, inventor of the modern submarine.

Capital and Labour - The Invention of the Steam-Engine : Watt's Early Inventions JAMES WATT, the grandson of a teacher of mathematics, and the son of a shipwright merchant of Greenock, was born in 1736. On the advice of a Glasgow Professor, he was sent to London in 1755 to be apprenticed to a mathematical instrument maker.1 However, on arriving in London he discovered that the seven years' ...

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WELCOME TO THE THOMAS EDISON WEB PAGES This page discusses Thomas Edison's early life in Port Huron, Michigan, the archaeological search for his boyhood home and the artifacts recovered. .....Go to the Table of Contents ...

Reminiscences of James Watt Reminiscences of James Watt IMAGES OF ORIGINAL ARTICLE Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS John W. Stephens This article is copied from Robert Hart, Reminiscences of James Watt:, Transactions of the Glasgow Arch ological Society, 1st Series, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 1-7 (1859). It was the first article published by the journal. In the text ...

The 1803 Trevithick London steam carriage at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

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