The story about Nikola Tesla is the story of a genius who was largely disrespected and abused by other scientists and inventors. Through my research I have managed to find out about the forgotten genius, his creation, the competition against direct current, and his true predictions. Furthermore, I talk about why this unfortunate futurist did not receive the prestige for his work; yet, considered the best scientist of all times.…
I then remembered the chapter entitled Science is Applied to Industry and Agriculture. 5. Was it Michael Faraday who wrote I have at last succeeded in magnetizing and electrifying a ray of light. 6.…
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What 's a sundial in the shade?” 1 Throughout history there have been many amazing inventors who used their talents to innovate beyond their time period. People like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Alexander Graham Bell were examples of such talented innovators with inventions that are in one way or another still used in today’s day to day life. To beat them all, Benjamin Franklin is famous not for one but multiple inventions that are still in use today. Franklin reinvented the postal service, optometry, invented the Franklin Stove, and made important discoveries with electricity, all of which proves why Benjamin Franklin is one of the world’s greatest and most influential inventors.…
Davy did this by electrolyzing a mixture of lime and mercuric oxide. Davy is famous for discovering potassium, sodium, chlorine, and other elements using powerful voltaic batteries. Davy was born in Penzance in Cornwall, England. He wasn't the best student because he was uninterested in school. When he was 16 he went into an apprenticeship as an apothecary to a doctor. He wanted to become a medical doctor some day. When he was 18 he began studying chemistry and performing his own experiments. Davy's chemical research impressed a few scientists and in 1798 when he was 19 he was recommended for a position at Dr. Thomas Beddoes's Pneumatic Institution in Bristol. This was an institution that researched the medical uses of gases. Davy discovered the intoxicating effects breathing nitrous oxide through self-experimentation. Davy researched the chemical and physiological properties of nitrous oxide and that's how he got his reputation as a chemist.…
The second Industrial Revolution utilized the power of electricity to help them develop their technology and help social and home life. Michael Faraday, a British scientist, demonstrated how an electric current could be made. This concept and principle is still in use today. Electricity improved life by supplying people with light, and electricity to power machines. Communications improved as a result of electricity. The telephone and telegraph were the first communicational devices that were for public use. With the development of technology, radio waves were discovered. Now messages could be sent over long distances in virtually no time.…
Robert Boyle (16271691) was born at Lismore Castle, Munster, Ireland, the fourteenth child of the Earl of Cork. As a young man of means, he was tutored at home and on the Continent. He spent the later years of the English Civil Wars at Oxford, reading and experimenting with his assistants and colleagues. This groupwas committed to the New Philosophy, which valued observation and experiment at least as much as logical thinking in formulating accurate scientific understanding. At the time of the restoration of the British monarchy in 1660, Boyle played a key role in founding the Royal Society to nurture this new view of science.…
William’s life was being an English chemist and physicist. For William to get there he had to ensconce himself in a stupendous school. Therefore he enrolled into the Royal College of Chemistry and studied chemistry under a well educated man named, “August Wilhelm von Hofmann”. Later in 1851 William became the assistant of August. As time went by (Three years) William was allotted as an assistant in Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford (In the Meteorological Department). Later in 1855, William received a chemical post in Chester; as time progressed William became more and more ensconced into Science and was practically giving his life for Science. In 1861, William…
Ben Franklin was born on Milk Street, January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father owned a candle and soap shop. Everyone referred to his father as a leather apron. Leather aprons were usually carpenters, black smiths, shoemakers and others who made their living producing household goods to sell. Ben Franklin became an apprentice to his brother, also a leather apron, when he was 12 years old. When he was 17 years old he ran away to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.…
kite during a lightening storm. Perhaps you picture him a older man with spectacles propped up on his nose standing in a great room full of distinguished gentlemen signing the Declaration of Independence. Both of these facts about Benjamin Franklin's life would be true. However, there was so much more to Mr. Franklin. He was a diplomat, a statesman, a scientist, and a writer. His contributions to our society were more than just to America but to the world. For the purpose of this paper we will just discuss the inventions he produced which had a world impact. (Fish 2).…
On December 30, 1691, the influential and scholarly Robert Boyle left science with a strong legacy of discoveries and experiments. The Irish physicist, chemist, and natural philosopher brought significant discoveries to chemistry, the theory of matter, and pneumatics. With much of his time being devoted to writing and studying, Boyle became interested in natural philosophy, religious topics, and ethical issues; even though some of these topics did not have much of an overlap with science, Boyle found a way to learn more about medicine, physics, chemistry, and natural history. In Boyle’s early life, he was influenced to live a successful life for himself.…
Another tool is the generator. Michael Faraday was acknowledged for findings of electromagnetic induction and the laws of electrolysis. One of the 1st electric transformers was due to the induction ring. Turning disc between the poles of a horseshoe magnet Faraday found an uninterrupted direct current. Which today we use generators during an emergency situation or whenever a person may need electricity when there is none available. (Bellis, 2013)…
He began his work in 1844 working under Thomas Edison. Soon after he struck out on his own with financial backing and set up his own laboratories and companies developing a wide range of electrical devices. The most prominent being his alternating current (AC) transformer which was licensed by George Westinghouse. The AC transformer would be the winner in the “current wars” that went on with Thomas Edison. In 1893 Tesla powered the Worlds Fair in Chicago beating Edison with his safe and more practical electrical current. By 1900 Tesla was regarded as the world’s greatest electrical engineer.…
A scientist may refer to an individual who uses the scientific method and who may be expert in one or more areas of science [1]. This paper discusses one of the famous scientists Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) who was an American Artist, an inventor of a single wire telegraph system and also the co-inventor of the Morse code that helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy. His discovery soon changed the way the messages are sent and received in the entire world, even today Morse code is still in use in various areas of radio…
In 1750 he published a proposal for an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm that appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm and electrical experiments led to his invention of the lightning rod.…
His first invention was an electrophorus; a device that produced static electricity. In 1776-77 he devoted his time to chemistry, studying atmospheric electricity, and devising experiments such as the ignition of gases by an electric spark in a closed vessel. In 1779 he became professor of physics at the University of Pavia, a chair he occupied for 25 years. By the 1800 he had developed the so-called voltaic pile, the first invention of the electric battery; it produced a steady stream of electricity. Volta also studied what we now call electrical capacitance, developing separate means to study both electrical potential and charge; discovering that for a given object they are corresponding. This is called Volta 's Law of capacitance and for this work the unit of electrical currently has been named the Volt.…