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The Steam Engine "The wonderful progress of the present century is, in a very great degree, due to the invention and improvement of the steam engine, and to the ingenious application of its power to kinds of work that formerly taxed the physical energies of the human race."~Robert H. Thurston    The steam engine can easily be considered the single most important invention of the entire industrial revolution.  There is not one part of industry present in today's society that can be examined

Intro Thomas Edison and Nikolas Tesla were two disputing geniuses. They were both key players in the course of electricity use and inventions. Edison “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” —Thomas Edison Thomas Edison was a businessman and good at improving ideas. Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Edison was the youngest child out of his seven siblings. His mother was a school teacher and had a great

This paper discusses the history of yellow journalism. This paper will explain the becoming of the name, the scandals, individuals and their newspapers that contributed to the rise of yellow journalism, and the involvement of the Spanish-American War. The phrase yellow journalism received its name from the cartoon the Yellow Kid. “Hogan’s Alley was a cartoon comic in New York, and the character that stood out the most in the comic was the Yellow Kid. The color of the pictures in this comic was

creator. This is true for classical music, as well as popular (pop) music. Pop music is music that is mass marketed and shared primarily by recordings. The Emergence of pop music occurred because of the invention of three recording devices, the phonograph cylinder (1878), the flat gramophone record (1887), and the Player piano (1896). Musicians like James Reese Europe had to find ways to allow himself (and other African Americans) able to perform, as well as get his music heard. Shostakovich had to work

Stop-motion animation requires the shooting of physically manipulated still objects to appear as moving objects. Some use dolls, props or clay (also known as called Claymation) to sequentially move an object in between individually shot frames. Depending on the preference of the director, stop-motion animation may also require either traditional or computer animation to supplement the movie's other visual requirements such as the backgrounds, sets, and props. Examples of stop-motion animation

Overview of the Mastering Process For every good mastering engineer, meticulousness and attention to detail is the norm, not the exception. What is Mastering? •  Mastering is the last creative step in the audio production process, the bridge between mixing and replication – your last chance to enhance sound or repair problems in an acoustically – designed room – an audio microscope. What is a Mastering Engineer? •  A Mastering Engineer requires the same ear training as a recording and mixing

Music may be defined romantically as `the food of love ' (Shakespeare) or more prosaically as `sound with particular characteristics ' (Wikipedia), but it is undeniably a `vibrant artform ' (Arts Council England) and one which touches more people, in more ways, than any other art form. In commercial terms, music certainly generates a higher market value than the other arts, although a comprehensive market size for music in all its manifestations is impossible to calculate. Key Note has put a value