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everyone wants a car but no one Wants to pay for gas well now thanks to technology we don’t have to yes thanks to the discovery of the electronic car people can travel solely on the power of electricity but most people say that Unless some new type of battery is invented these electronic Car are nothing more than a dream but these are far more than a dream and very much so a part of reality But what does the future hold for these cars Well electricity is already a large part of our lives so to start

Joey Schafer 2/16/16 Helman, 4 Thomas Edison Paper Thomas Alva Edison was one of the greatest inventors in the history of the world. He held 1,093 patents over his life, including patents for an incandescent light bulb, a projector, a battery, and a sound recorder. Thomas Edison was clearly an amazing inventor. Thomas, or Al, as his family nicknamed him, was born on February 11, in 1847. He was the youngest child in his family. His father was named Samuel, and had had many jobs, including being

he lived in a trailer park with his girlfriend.. and then his girlfriend became pregnant. He was poor, very dirt poor. He was a dishwasher in a seafood restaurant for years. He started filming his sons early childhood when he was 18 and that’s where the passion for filming started. By telling these little stories about his son Owen he felt like he had a voice. He decided to leave and live in New York City in june of 2001, it was a dream he had while living in the trailer park, not because he was going

because it allowed people to send message to other towns. After Edison saw how the telegraph work he wanted to try and make his own system. So he and a friend concocted a plan of how to send messages back and forth to each others homes by using batteries instead of electricity. Edison realized after doing these experiments he needed money to be able to continue to buy things for his future experiments. Working on his families farm and selling vegetables didn’t earn him enough money for his experiments

environment clean? They enact laws against litter and waste. One way is the state requiring the deposit on beer and soft-drink bottles and cans (Prichard 8A). In those states, millions of bottles and cans that once were left on beaches, tossed in rivers and parks or thrown along the highways are being taken back to stores instead for a refund. A twenty-year old student from Michigan said, “Throwing away cans is like throwing away money to me” (Prichard 8A). These state laws must be working if people have this

Edwin Wiley Grove born in Hardeman County Tennessee in 1850 was the son of James Henry and Mary Jane Harris Grove. Both of his parents were natives of Virginia. His father was a confederate soldier and serves with a general who's name was Nathan B. Forrest. Years after Grove was born he went to Memphis to study pharmacy. Then, in 1880 he made his own pharmacy in a small town called Paris, Tennessee. That's where he worked as a drugstore clerk earlier before he went to Memphis. In Paris he had created

Where would we be today without Thomas Alva Edison? How would our life be different? Thomas Edison probably did more than any other man to influence the industrial civilization in the world we live in today. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life in the United States. Let us explore the life and contributions of Thomas Edison. Thomas Alva Edison was born February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio in a humble brick house that still stands today. Edison was pulled from public school at the age

mbar (28.2 inches of mercury); the former record was 962 mbar (28.4 inches of mercury), occurred during the 1993 Storm of the Century. Sandy wiped out at least 125 people in the United States that comprises of 60 in New York, 48 of them in New York City, 34 in New Jersey and 16 in Pennsylvania. The storm dropped heavy snow in West Virginia killing seven people. Sandy killed 71 people in the Caribbean, including 54 in Haiti. Sandy was responsible for creating $62 billion damage and other disasters

of coastal flooding in a hurricane than was previously realized. This projection was illuminated during Hurricanes Irene in 2011 and Sandy in 2012. The storm surge in Battery Park along the lower east side of Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy was 9.41 feet surpassing the record set by Hurricane Donna in 1960. New York City is close to the Atlantic Ocean. Lower Manhattan defined by the North of 14th Street, the West by the Hudson River, the East by the East River and the South by New York

also the artsy SoHo, Battery Park City, and one of the first public-private development project—Stuyvesant Town. The rise of the real estate market could be accounted for by a wealth of factors, including population growth,