Jesse W. Reno was the inventor of the first working escalator. He lived from 1861 to 1947. He was born in Fort Leavenworth, KS. The first escalator was built as an amusement ride for Coney Island next to Old Iron Pier in 1895, it only ran for two weeks but more than 75,000 passengers rode it. The first escalator only rose 7 feet up in the air, but it was more than exciting back then. It also elevated the passengers belt 25 degree angle. Without Jesse W. Reno building this inclined elevator/escalator we would not have the elevators we have today. Reno came up with the idea at age 16. Charles Seeberger designed the modern escalator, around 1900, named it what it is called today. Three people have invented a type of escalator. The invention
In The Folklore of the Freeway: Space, Culture, and Identity in Postwar Los Angeles, Eric Avila discusses the history of the construction of the freeway in Los Angeles and the effects that this transformation had on communities of color. The construction of the freeway further increased the contrast between white space and non whitespace as white people moved toward the suburbs and communities of color were displaced to the inner city metropolitan areas. Avila explains that the impact of the freeways was not only economic, but also physical. The construction entailed immense destruction and displacement among inner-city communities. Boyle Heights, for example, experienced one-tenth of its population being displaced by the freeways. What I found
The film Cadillac Records is a biopic that retells the story of a few major R&B artists during the 1950s and 1960s. The film mainly focuses on the characters Muddy Waters and the Leonard Chess. The film later includes other famous artists such as Chuck Berry, Etta James, and Little Walter. It also briefly shows Mick Jagger, from The Rolling Stones near the end of the film, and occasionally Howlin Wolf and Hubert Sumlin make an appearance.
Durango Street is a novel by Frank Bonham. He writes about a young boy who lives in an extremely bad neighborhood. His name is Rufus Henry. Rufus was in a correctional camp for stealing a car. In the camp he met a friend named Baby. Baby lived where Rufus's mother had moved. Baby got released a little bit before Rufus and then went on to his home "the flats." Rufus was left out from camp with a parol officer. His parole officer tells him not to get involved with gangs but Rufus knows he has to join a gang to survive. He runs into one of the local gangs The Gassers, and gets into a little fight with them and the leader Simon Jones. He gets away in good condition, but knows that The Gassers are goin to be looking for him. So he finds his friend Baby and joins the gang The Moors. Rufus gets beat up into the gang, and soon after takes over. He beats up the leader Bantu. Rufus the takes contorl of the gang. The rival gang knows about this, and then beats up Rufus's little sister. Rufus then gets back at them and beats up the gang and blows up there car. He then meets up with a man named Alex Robbins. The man is a social worker who "sponsors" or helps gangs. They have meetings every week and talk about The Gassers and ideas they have. Alex suggests to go to the local football team (TheMaurders) and watch them train. Little did Alex know is that Rufus has an obsession with their star running back Ernie Brown. Ernie is actually Rufus's father, but no-one knows except Rufus and his mother. Simon Jones steals Rufus's book of Ernie Brown that he keeps in secret and in provate. Simon then reads it in front of everyone how Ernie is really Rufus's father. This makes things with the gangs very hostile. The Moors then meet these two girls named Nonie and Jannet. They talk with the gang and convince them to throw a graduation dance. The gang rounds up some money and has the dance. The Gassers try to ruin it by setting off smoke bombs in the ventalation systems, but the dance is not spoiled but turned out great. After the dance Rufus and Alex talk about Rufus going back to school, and they end off with a nice smile.
The Step Pyramid was designed by Imhotep, the Chancellor of King Zoser, and was originally planned as a stone mastaba 7.0 meters high based on a square ground-plan (Aldred 45-46). However, this design underwent six alterations, and in its final form the Step Pyramid rose in six unequal steps to a height of 62.
"Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?" (Bronte). In this Charlotte Bronte quote you can see that social class is a determining factor in a person's view towards another. The rich look down at the poor as obscure and worthless due to their social class. This is evident in the world famous play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams through the colliding personalities between the main characters Stanley Kowalski and Blanche Dubois. The critical lens of Marxism can be applied to the play due to the tensions between the rich and the poor, the downfall of the old south, and different views/changes in the southern economic system.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793. Eli Whitney was an inventor and a mechanical engineer. He was born in Westboro, Mass. He went to Yale...
The main character of this book is Sylvia Barret she is a recent college graduate, and works as a high school English teacher. Sylvia would like to work in a nice private school, like so many of her friends. Instead Sylvia takes a job with the board of education, in a nieve attempt to reach out to the under privileged inner-city children in public schools. Sylvia battles with so many choices in this book. In the end she makes the right ones.
What do you have in your hands, purse, or pocket? You probably have a phone with you. This report is here to talk with you about the man that created the telephone. This man was born in 1847. He created the telephone at age twenty-nine. The telephone has changed the world, and it is now accessible to almost all human beings. This man is Alexander Graham Bell.
Chester Carlson was born in 1906 in Seattle, Washington. Chester Carlson was an American physicist and the inventor of Xerography and the so called printer/copy machine. Since Chester Carlson was born into a relatively poor family he had to financially support his family in any way he could. However, this did not stop Carlson. He worked his way through school and attended the California Institute of Technology where he earned a bachelor's degree in physics in 1930.
The Tesla Coil was developed by a man called Nikola Tesla. Nikola was considered a mad scientist for inventing the Tesla Coil, a device that was used to transfer electricity without wires. In this time that technology was unheard of, but also turned out to be revolutionary. (We still use this today only we call it wireless technology think of it as an upgrade to the original tesla coil.)
The first self propelled steam engine pumper was built in New York in 1841. In 1853, Alexander Bonner Latta invented the first practical fire engine. Steam powered fire engines were still in use here and there, up until the 1920 motorized fire trucks became more common by 1910. From 1911, Mack Trucks began producing fire trucks, slowly becoming the most famous manufacturer in this field. In 1911 their was a fire in a ten-story building, the building was used for manufacturing clothing and claimed the lives of 146 employees and were mostly young women who leaped to their death. They thought this building was fireproof but it was
In 1596, the world's first flush toilet was invented by Sir John Harrington. The problem was still not solved. All these years people had to throw their waste on the streets, and this would cause the place to stink. I wasn't until 1775; that's when Alexander Cunnings invented the S-valve toilet. This toilet prevented stinky gas from entering the house. People think that Thomas Crapper invented the toilet, but he didn't. He only made and sold them. The S-valve toilet has had a huge impact on today's world.
In the short story “The Elevator” by William Sleator the main character is Martin, the dad, and the “fat lady”. Why was Martin afraid to go to the elevator? In paragraph 30 he said “What would happen if he pushed one of them? Would a bell ring? Would the elevator stop between floors? And if it did, how would they get him out?” Martin was afraid to go to the elevator because he thought that the elevator would crash. He didn’t want to go because he thought he would die or was stuck there and there are no food or water that he had so could get hungry or thirsty. Another evidence is that he doesn’t want to get stuck with the “fat lady”. He doesn’t want to be stuck with the “fat lady” because he doesn't want to stick with her and there is no space
Several versions of the home radiator were invented in the mid 19th century. One of the early versions was invented by a man named Franz San Galli sometime between 1855-1857. In 1863,
View the movie Stand and Deliver (Menendez & Musca, 1988), which is based on the true story of Jaime Escalante, an individual who overcame ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic issues to become a highly successful mathematics teacher. Discuss the beliefs he held and the strategies he employed in his classroom that contributed to high achievement levels in his students. Relate this information to research on the subject.