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Robert Samuel McLaughlin gave a great deal of his time contributing to the growth of technology by founding McLaughlin Carriage Company Limited. Born in Cavan Township, Upper Canada on the sixteenth of November 1836 McLaughlin started his journey of creating his own company.18 At the prime age of forty-eight, McLaughlin built Oshawa Carriage Works.19 It was a three story brick factory which shortly became known as McLaughlin Carriage.20 The company continued to grow impressively through out

the way we communicate with the world would be entirely different. (Pewresarch) Michael Hart’s book The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History ranks Alexander Graham Bell as the forty second most influential person in history and he is one of the most influential persons in history. Alexander Graham Bell’s influences of his father and grandfather caused him to take interest in the human voice and imitating its sounds. Although he is known for his invention of the telephone, he

between families and neighbors. The telegraph Morse invented was a single telegraph, sending one message at a time, so Alexander Graham Bell tried to create a multiple telegraph, sending more than one message over the same wire. At the same time, Bell and Thomas Watson, an electrician, were working on another idea in secret – the telephone. On June 2, 1875, Alexander Graham Bell discovered he could hear a sound over an electric wire, the sound of a twanging clock spring. On March 10, 1876, Bell explained

my lesson based on the book, Alexander Graham Bell: A Famous Inventor, by Justin McCory Martin. In this lesson, the students learned the biography of Alexander Graham Bell, they read the text closely to determine what it said, make logical inferences from it, participate in conversations and collaborations with partners, and describe the relationship between illustrations and the text. In order to do this we completed a “My Facts Book about Alexander Graham Bell” based on what they learned from

Jose Munoz Ms.Aguilar Us History 10/18/16 Alexander Graham Bell He was born to Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds. His mother was almost deaf, and his father taught elocution to the deaf, which I find very ironic. This ended up influencing Alexander’s later career choice as teacher of the deaf. At age 11 he entered the Royal High School at Edinburgh, but he did not enjoy the compulsory curriculum, and he left school at age 15 without graduating. Alexander invented the first ever

Warren Buffet is a Leader I Admire Background Warren Buffet is an American business man, and philanthropist. He is known by some as the most successful investor in the world. He was an entrepreneur at a young age, his first successful investment was at six years old. He bought a six pack of coke for twenty-five cents and sold each bottle for five cents and made a five/cent profit. He went on to start other businesses such as paper delivery, and also a pinball machine business that he started with

Abstract: Sir Isaac Newton once wrote in a letter to Robert Hooke “If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”. Some consider this as an insult towards Hooke, who suffered from a form of dwarfism and was Newton’s nemesis; others have taken a more conservative view in claiming the quote is

much money they should give. This new wealth was not expected and along with it came opinions and judgment of all economic classes. The opinions range from Social Darwinism, which William Graham Sumner believed in, to Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth and to Walter Rauschenbusch’s The Social Gospel. William Graham Sumner was a firm believer in Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism is the belief in survival of the fittest, so the strongest in society are the ones who become wealthy. With this wealth Sumner

schools and even college, she succeeded at each school while still managing and overcoming any setbacks with her disability. Helen first began school classes at the Perkins Institute. The director of Perkins Michael Anagnos and the well known Alexander Graham Bell, both saw great potential in Helen Keller from the beginning of her life. Though Keller was making progress and having letters published at the Perkins Institute, a misunderstanding incident resulted in Helen Keller leaving Perkins. (Helen Adams

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was raised by his mother Eliza Grace Symonds Bell, who was nearly deaf, but was an accomplished pianist and encouraged Alexander to undertake big challenges, and his father Alexander Melville Bell. Alexander Graham Bell was one of three children and was home-schooled until age 11. He did not do very well in school academically, but he did enjoy science and had a great ability to solve problems. Growing up, Alexander became