Jennyfer Mejicanos Lopez Block 3 3/24/24 Facing Adversities. One day William Kamkwamba said, “Don’t insult me today just because I’m poor. You don’t know what my future holds!” “A Young Tinkerer Builds a Windmill, Electrifying a Nation” William Kamkwamba faced his obstacle of being born in a third world country with no electricity or water by working hard. William was born on August 5, 1987, in Dowa, Malawi. His wife was Olivia Scott Kamkwamba. He was an author and inventor, he wrote The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2009; with Bryan Mealer). It was published in 20 languages and sold more than 1 million copies. William was the second of seven children and the only boy. He grew up in the rural village of Masitala, in the center of the country. …show more content…
He invented windmills to provide electricity and clean water and an irrigation system for crops. Behind this, his life was not easy because he was born into a poor family that couldn’t afford to send him to school, at age 14 he dropped out of school. However, he was interested in science so he continued studying in the village library. His family lived on a farm and grew corn. In a period of time his village experienced a famine, his family lost their crop and could not sell or buy anything. The time passed and he went to the library and borrowed an American textbook called Using Energy, the cover had wind turbines. He decided to build a windmill that could give electricity to his family. His obstacle is that “Since he could not read English, he had to figure out how to make a windmill using only the book’s illustrations. He used scrap metal, parts from tractors and bicycles, and rubber from flip-flops to build a 16-foot (5-meter) windmill” (Britannica). When he was creating his project, he faced a lot of obstacles of being poor and not able to go to school. With his hard work, he faced obstacles of not being able to read. As a result of his work he tasted his invention and went on to build
I hope I have answered the question “What was his personal life like?” good in here and would like to summarize by saying that he was able to overcome all odds to become a famous inventor that even had a movie made by him. I would also like to say that He made many, many products that we still use all from simple plants like peanuts in summary to the answer of the question “What did he actually do?”. He also had many hobbies that ended up in helping many people (“What did he like to do when he wasn’t working?”). I have found that this man that I knew nothing about before the report is one of the few real life people I know of that overcame so many things in his life that almost no one even knows
Nijhuis presents a series of detailed explanations that argue in favor of and against the development of wind farms. In the first portion of “Selling the Wind”, the
...producing his invention of the steel plow. John’s meager start with the steel plow now has turned into a business producing tractors that drive themselves. His inventions changed the way of life for farmers of the past, present and future.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an eccentric man that was many lifetimes ahead of his generation. He was a man that dreamed of giving the world an unlimited supply of wireless energy. His genius imagination allowed him to think outside the box and solve issues that others had thought were unsolvable. Nikola Tesla proposed his vision for a system powered by an alternating current generator to Thomas Edison and was shot down because Thomas Edison’s power structure had already been established using a direct current system. The two butt heads however Nikola Tesla was relentless. After being used and rejected by Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla picked himself and went toe to toe with the most prolific inventor. The stage for David vs Goliath was set. Through Nikola Tesla’s borderline obsession to solve the design for an alternating current motor and sacrificing his own opportunity to become a wealthy man, we now live in a very efficient world where everyone reaps the rewards of his genius, few know his name, and even fewer know what he did.
In The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba, modern concepts such as government and deforestation had negative effects on the lives of the people in William’s community. While government works such as ADMARC and ESCOM have potential to be beneficial to William’s community, in practice, the government does not make them accessible enough to William’s people; thus, they do not serve much use. Furthermore, the government is corrupt, exacerbating the issue: “President Muluzi’s people had sold all our surplus grain for profit … Millions of kwacha were missing, and no one in the government was taking responsibility” (87). The government is keeping these resources for themselves as opposed to making them available to the people. Government,
Back in the 18th Century everything was moderate and things were not as advanced as they are today. Most people had to do things by hand or some did have machines, but they would still have to be use their hands to control it. But one man saw that all this can change while he was working one day. And he became famous for his invention and from that point on he changed the way machines were made.
In this essay about the book ‘The boy who harnessed the wind’ written by Bryan Mealer & William Kamkwamba I will firstly describe William Kamkwamba and his early life in Malawi. Next discuss the challenges he faced and how he was able to build a windmill.
he attached a four stoke piston engine to a wooden bicycle frame. For the next few year motorcycle remained larger experimental. During the early 1900’s with continual improvement they developed into useful vehicles. Today motorcycles have the same general appearance as easier models. But modern bike are earlier to handle and they have storage frames, more power engine are more efficient.
Building Dreams with Wind and Perseverance Perseverance and resilience were central themes in the story of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba. William’s story illustrates how determination can transform lives, even when confronted with immense difficulties like the ones William experienced in Malawi. William Kamkwamba, the young inventor, demonstrated perseverance through his determination to build a windmill in order to benefit him and his family, despite the laughter from his village and doubts from his family. This essay will explore how William’s journey demonstrated the core of perseverance and what the book ultimately conveyed about it. William’s determination was clear from the very beginning of the book when he became convinced to bring electricity to his village.
Have you ever met anyone who can build a functioning windmill from scratch with little education? William Kamkwamba, the author and autobiographer of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, tells us his incredible life story, complete with famine, hardships, and triumph in the city of Malawi, Africa. Throughout the book, we see William grow and change as he and his family battle poverty and other losses. With William’s help, we begin to notice elements of his culture contrasted to our own, and cultural diffusion between Malawi and the USA.
Reading up information and searching for clues (which were not extremely easy), turns out to have broadened my knowledge on Nature and Biomimicry itself and that there are so many people already using wind turbines to harvest the winds energy and know how the world can be saved. Therefore I have come to the conclusion and have seen that my hypothesis has been proven right.
One of his greater inventions was his sugarcane-crushing machinery with an advanced design. However, he became devoted to his work in metallurgy. In his time there were only two iron-based construction materials: wrought iron was made from cast iron in underdeveloped furnaces by the taxing manual process known as “puddling” (puddling is when you begin to stir the melted iron to get all the carbon out), and cast iron made by treating iron ore with coke (the chemical, not the drink) in the blast furnace. Cast iron was excellent for purposes like columns, bridge piers, or engine parts.
He built the machine called Turing machine which now we know as computer. There are one character said to him “The world is an infinitely better place because of you”. I think the world would be different without person likes him because they found something that we thought it impossible and they make it possible. The world have impossible thing because of them.
Some of his inventions were improvements on other inventions, like the telephone. He didn’t “invent” the telephone he just made it better. Some of his inventions he did try to invent, like the light bulb and the movie projector. The one he is most proud of was pretty much an accident--the phonograph.
Those very first wind mills were constructed in deserted areas due to access of wind pressure. It was built by using 6 to 12 sails covered with clothing material, they were used to draw water from streams and to grind corn. Later European countries adapted this technique to construct energy producing