Prehistoric * mainly arts, artifacts, words which caveman or hunters have depicted on their cave dwellings * Sources of information may consist of where to haunt wild animals for food, may come from heavenly bodies (sun and moon) that tells the emergence of day and night. * Footprints of wild animals (mastodon, mammoths) serve as road guides * Stones, metals (bronze, copper, iron) are sources of info. * Iron – create wheels for chariot that led formed empires and distribute
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Thomas Edison The first person who invented light bulb in the world is Thomas Edison; he was born on February 11 1847 in Milano and was the youngest sibling out of seven. Thomas family had moved to Port Huron where he had spent most of his child hood where his family lived at. His father Samuel Ogden Edison is a telegraph operator and that is where Thomas became intrested in communications. Thomas edision family was poor didnt have much of his child hood, and wasnt academicly smart at school. His
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Thomas Stewart is an African American inventor, who often collaborated with other inventors to make many useful patents. Thomas was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, In 1823. He was one of the most first African American inventors to be awarded a patent. Stewart worked to produce and create inventions that would make people's lives much easier. His goal was to help his community in any potential way that he could. Just like any African American in the 1800s life wasn't easy for nonwhite people but yet
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“The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.” This quote was stated by Leon Foucault during his exploration of Earth’s relation to a pendulum. When asked to think about the names of some inventors, Jean Bernard Léon Foucault is usually not your first choice. There have been many inventors before and after him with extremely revolutionary products, and plenty with names
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Click here to try our new website — you can come back at any time January 4, 2016 5:36 pm General Motors/Lyft: waking up in Vegas Share Author alerts Print Clip Gift Article Comments The carmaker’s cleaned-up balance sheet has allowed it to punt on pink ©Bloomberg General Motors is hardly the first reveller to leave Las Vegas with a lighter wallet. But unlike the gamblers who make Sin City glow, the carmaker can legitimately claim its
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Ford Motor Co Industry: Automobile (Auto Manufacturers – Major) Sector: Consumer Goods Products and Services: Ford Motor Company primarily develops, manufactures, distributes, and services vehicles and parts worldwide. Ford operates in two sectors: • The Automotive sector: Offers vehicles primarily under the Ford (www.ford.com) and Lincoln (www.lincoln.com) brand names. This sector markets cars, trucks, and parts through retail dealers in North America, and through distributors and
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both firms are vying against Tesla luxury car segment where is the forerunner of the new-energy vehicles marker. In this essay, the Porter Five Forces framework will be analysed on the electric vehicle market. The emerging market of Electric Vehicles, in the start-up stage of the industry lifecycle, is capturing the attention of automakers prompting a strong rivalry between incumbents namely Nissan, General Motors, and allowing the entrance to new comers such as Tesla that is now heading the market
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services enabling more jobs for the city. Strength 2: Manufacturing facilities We know the city of Detroit was the 4th largest city in America during the first half of the 20th century since it was where the biggest motor and manufacturing companies used to be. Currently, the motor manufacturing business is dead, but the facilities and company plants are still there. These are huge assets; they could be sold to other manufacturing companies who could take better use of these resources for extra
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STRENGTHS Toyota’s strongest strength is the great quality of its products. Vehicles produced by the company are durable and long-lasting, and the evidence of their reliability is the statistic which states that almost 80% of all Toyotas sold 20 years ago are still on the roads today. This company’s strength could not have been built without the concept the necessity of constant improvement of the quality of its products and processes, called Kaizen. Toyota surpassed its competitors by insisting
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