There are some famous inventors that I think have changed America’s history because of their inventions. Eli Whitney inventing the cotton gin, Nikola Tesla inventing the first AC motor, and Elijah McCoy inventing the lubricator for steam engines.
Nikola Tesla was originally from Croatia but then moved to the United States in 1884. He there created the first ever Air Conditioner motor in New York also where he met Thomas Edison his future rival. One day Nikola Tesla was walking somewhere with sand and then his idea popped into his head. He was thinking about a brushless Air Conditioner making the first sketches of its rotating electromagnets in the sand. During 1887 and 1888 Nikola Tesla’s work caught the attention of George Westinghouse, the
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He worked there a year, impressing Edison with his diligence and ingenuity. At one point Edison told Nikola Tesla he would pay $50,000 for an improved design for his DC dynamos. After months of experimentation, Nikola Tesla presented a solution and asked for the money. Edison demurred, saying, “Nikola Tesla you don’t understand our American humor.” Nikola Tesla quit soon after.
Eli Whitney was an American inventor who created the cotton gin and pushed the “interchangeable parts” mode of production. Eli Whitney studied at Yale before going on to invent the cotton gin, a device that highly streamlined the process of extracting fiber from cotton seeds. Wit the patent for his device being widely pirated, Whitney struggles to earn any recompense for his invention. He later went on the pioneer “interchangeable parts” systems of production. During Eli Whitney’s early years Eli Whitney became an expert at making nails from a device of his own invention. He later crafted canes and ladies’ hat pins, recognizing opportunity when it arose. Eli Whitney graduated Yale College in 1792,
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During his early life the McCoys were fugitive slaves who had escaped from Kentucky to Canada by the Underground Railroad. In 1847, he large family returned to the United States, settling in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Beginning at a young age, Elijah McCoy showed a strong interest in mechanics. Since he showed such a strong interest his parents arranged for him to travel to Scotland at the age of 15 for an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering. He returned to Michigan after becoming certified as a mechanical engineer. Although due to racial barriers Elijah McCoy was unable to find work as an engineer in the United States. The skilled professional positions were not available for African Americans at the time, regardless of their training or background. Elijah McCoy accepted the position of a fireman and oiler for the Michigan Central Railroad. That was the line of work that he developed his first major inventions. After studying the inefficiencies inherent in the existing system of oiling axles, Elijah McCoy invented a lubricating cup that distributed oil evenly over the engine’s moving parts. Elijah McCoy continued to refine his devices, receiving nearly 60 patents over the course of his life. Although most of his inventions dealt with lubrication systems, he also developed designs for an ironing board, a lawn sprinkler, and other machines. In 1920, toward the end of his life, McCoy formed the Elijah
Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts and raised on a farm. During his early years, he had a strong knack for making machines and working with technology and soon began crafting things on his own. He first began by making nails, canes, and ladies’ hatpins. Before Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin, he was a student at Yale University and intended to become a private tutor after school, but stayed with a woman named Catherine Greene instead. During his stay on her plantation, he learned about cotton production and how difficult it was for cotton farmers to live a decent life. Eli’s invention of the cotton gin helped begin American manufacturing, but also had some negative effects on slaves and other products.
Eli Whitney grew up on a farm he just had a thing for machine work and technology as a child during the revolutionary war,he became an expert at making nails from a device of his own invention. He later crafted canes and ladies hat pins,recognizing opportunity when it arose
Many have heard the name Tesla, as it is the name of a car company, but it was named for the scientist Nikola Tesla, an electrical genius. He immigrated from a small village in Smiljan, Croatia. He was one of the many bright young minds shaping America after the Civil War had ended. Tesla’s goal was to prove he could be just as renown a scientist as Thomas Edison. He finally got his chance when he was offered the generator at Niagara Falls.
Eli Whitney was one of the greatest American inventors during at his time. Between 1793 and around 1800 Eli Whitney played an important role during the Market Revolution when he invented the Cotton Gin, which changed the manufacturing of cottons, and the Interchangeable part machines that helped the making of gun parts and luxury items that were easy to produce. Each of his inventions played a very large role in people’s lives for the North and the South. The inventions definitely changed the manufacturing of cotton and the making of gun parts which revolutionized the United States. The Cotton Gin impacted the economy conditions both social and economic; as he fights for his legal rights for his invention, which led him to his invention of the Interchangeable part machines, and signed contract with the government to make as many muskets in a certain period of time.
I’m going to give you some insight on a Henry Ford, and how and why he revolutionized our country. Without him we wouldn’t be the America we are today. Henry Ford is one of the main factors that played a part in winning World War 2. He had ideas; great brain storms that would become reality to help the American people in all factors of their daily lives. So Henry Ford helped us win the war. He also figured out how to make a car that was reliable, cheap, and fast to make. Then after all that was said and done he even paid his workers the most and hired anyone that had the qualification to work for him. Henry Ford made America a better place for the people.
Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin, was born in 1765, and from an early age he was interested in mechanics. He developed a knack for making nails and became one of the best nail makers (Piercy, 94). Whitney attended Yale College to further his education, with the goal of becoming a lawyer; he graduated in 1792 (Piercy, 94). After graduating, he planned to go to the South to tutor kids, but found that the position had been taken once he arrived there (Piercy, 95). A woman named Mrs. Greene invited Whitney to live on her plantation and she noticed how inventive he was, so she presented the cotton problem to him (Piercy, 95). The problem was that it was very difficult to remove the seeds from cotton and it also took a really long
Eli Whitney was an American inventor who is best known for his invention called the Cotton Gin. He was born on December 8, 1765, Westborough, MA. Where he grew up on a farm and had an fond for machine work and technology. As a child during the Revolutionary War, he became an expert at making nails from a device of his own invention that led to him later crafting canes and ladies’ hatpins. As he grew up, Whitney decided to go to Yale and graduated in 1792 with achieving a law degree. Upon graduating he accepted a job offer to read law at a plantation. There he learned of the process of green-seed cotton, which took hours of manual labor to properly clean the seed and extract the fiber. So over the year with his employers support Whitney used his engineering skills as a child to build an invention that was able to quickly and efficiently clean the cotton. This invention would be called the Cotton Gin.
As a young boy growing up in Westboro, Massachusetts it became clear that young Eli Whitney had a passion for all things mechanical. Born in 1765, Whitney spent his childhood on the family farm, however he was fascinated with machine work and technology. By age 12 it was more than apparent where Whitney’s passion was centered, he had already been tinkering with his father’s watch, taking it completely apart and re-assembling it as well as building his own violin. He even started his own business forging nails during the Revolutionary War and had employees to help with the operations of his business.
Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin in 1973. Whitney's machine could produce up to 50 pounds of cleaned cotton daily, making southern cotton a profitable crop for the first time.It was essentially a box with a hand-cranked cylinder that would feed cotton through small, narrow slots, just wide enough for the cotton to come through, but too small for the seeds. The seeds would then drop to the bottom and the cotton would be seedless. The amount of cotton it produced in one day would have taken months
One of the most notable pioneers during the Industrial Revolution in the early years of United States history was Eli Whitney. His passion in machinery and yearning for knowledge in technology drove him to design some of the most important inventions in United States. He created the cotton gin, an invention that transformed the agricultural industry, and later designed interchangeable parts, a method that altered the production of manufacturing. Eli Whitney was a competent and respected inventor who overcame obstacles through his life and used the gifts given to him by God to make a difference in our country and the people of the world during the Revolutionary time and his innovative invention still have lasting effects on the people of
After he and Edison parted ways, Tesla founded Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing in 1886. In spite of his many ideas for improvements for preexisting technologies and original inventions, his investors were not interested in funding him. Tesla soon ran out of money for his company and was forced to close down and he lost what few patents he had.
The success done by Thomas Edison lined up the competitor, who were shocked by the great invention of Thomas Edison. The biggest competitor to Thomas Edison Company was George Westinghouse and his company which patented a new technique to deliver electrical power through long distances. George Westinghouse noticed that Edison low voltage DC motors were not able to transmit the electrical power effectively for more than half a mile [1]. The efficiency of DC generators was not effective to transmit the electric power to long distances because of the high impedance and the resistivity of the wires. In 1982, one of the world's true eccentric geniuses, Nicola Tesla, traveled from Austria to solve the problem of the DC generators by using AC motor design. However,
Nikola was given a career changing opportunity in the early 1900s ,when he had convinced J.P. Morgan to support his research. He had envisioned making a large tower in Long Island that could supply power and signal transmission. The building's construction was never completed which caused Morgan to withdraw his money. The building was later destroyed and replaced. Even though his project was unsuccessful, Tesla continued working and preparing the background
Many wealthy inventors have paid to support scientific research all throughout history. J.P. Morgan gave him 4 million dollars when really was tesla needed to build his coil to go around the globe was 24 million dollars. Tesla competed with Thomas Edison to get the biggest funding. George Westinghouse house bought the patents in the late 1800s. Based on Teslas partnerships we know that tesla cared more about the advancement in our world
His dream was about to come true when George Westinghouse hired him. George let Tesla develop all his ideas and Tesla finally produced his invention alternating current (AC). He then became a U.S. citizen in 1889. In 1891 he made another invention called the Tesla coil. It helped create many other inventions that used the Tesla coil the television, a computer screen, the radio, and other electronics. Then Tesla was struck by depression because of his mother's death in 1892. By about 1895 Tesla became a poor man due to a number of failed inventions, so he tried to get a contract with the military. His first attempt to get a military contract was automated submarines and boats, but the government didn't accept his offer. He finally got a military contract from the German Marine High Command. He made turbines for the Germans, and it's thought to be used for their U-boats. Soon After World War 1 started and Tesla had to cancel his concert or he would have been arrested for treason. Tesla was broke again and was desperate for money so he attempted to build a death ray for the U.S. military. It's unknown what components Tesla used for this machine and if it even worked. He said that it would be used to defend of American soil; nevertheless the military rejected his offer. Tesla made one last effort to get a military contract. He would make a sending