Inventions

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Inventions
Kimeisha Moore November 22, 2004

• Inventions and their Inventors

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John P. Holland

• Meet John P. Holland, photographed emerging from
  the hatch of his invention, the USS Holland
  submarine. Born on the Irish coast in 1841, he
  had a fascination with both science and sea
  travel. At a young age, he became convinced that
  underwater vehicles could be useful in naval
  warfare. He developed his first draft for a
  submarine design in 1859. He later moved to the
  United States and submitted his design to the US
  Navy, which initially rejected it as a "fantastic
  scheme of a civilian landsman."

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John P. Holland

• Undaunted and supported by funds from the Fenian
  Movement, a secret revolutionary society
  organized in Ireland and the United States to
  achieve Irish independence from England, John
  continued his efforts. He eventually launched his
  first submarine - the Holland Number 1 - in 1877
  on the Passaic River in New Jersey. Only 14 feet
  long and powered by a 4 horsepower engine, this
  model made several successful dives.

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The Wright Brothers Heavier controlled Flight

• Man has long been fascinated with birds and their
  ability to fly. Before the Wright Brothers
  achieved their first heavier-than-air controlled
  flight in 1903, hundreds of men and women
  attempted to fly in gliders, airships, balloons
  and other fantastic innovations.

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Telegraphic Cable
Cyrus Field

• Try, try and try again" must have been Cyrus
  Field's motto. Born in Massachusetts in 1819,
  Field is credited for the success of the first
  transatlantic telecommunication cable. At the age
  of 33, after "retiring" from his successful paper
  business, Field immersed himself in the project
  of constructing a telegraph cable across the
  Atlantic Ocean.

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Telegraphic Cable
Samuel Mourse

• Knowing little about either cables or ocean
  travel, but convinced of the commercial merits of
  his idea, he consulted Samuel Morse and other
  experts of the period. In 1854, after obtaining
  charters from British and American governments
  and support from British cable companies, he
  founded the New York, Newfoundland and London
  Telegraph Company. Two years later, he helped
  organize a British Company - The Atlantic
  Telegraphy Company. He obtained British and
  American ships - Agamemnon and Niagara - to begin
  laying the cable.

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Herman Hollerith Punched Card Sorter

It is often said that necessity is the mother of
invention. In the 1880s, the United States Census
Bureau had a problem. It had taken them almost
eight years to tabulate the data from the 1880
census. Federal officials worried that it would
take even longer to compile the 1890 census
results.
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Henry Ford and the Airhibian

• Henry Ford said - "Mark my word A combination
  airplane and motor car is coming. You may smile.
  But it will come." And he was right! Robert
  Fulton Junior, pictured seated here in his
  airphibian, devised the brilliant idea of a fly
  and drive vehicle. In his job as a government
  contract worker in the 1940s, Fulton flew his own
  aircraft to cities throughout the United States.

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N.F. Brunham and the Tubine water wheel

Water power has been used for centuries to
perform labor saving tasks. The waterwheel a
set of paddles mounted around a wheel was an
early machine that used flowing or falling water
to create power. Persians used a wheel called a
saquia to raise water from a river to a higher
place. Ancient Greeks ground corn in waterwheel
driven mills.
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Lowan Ray Hagie and the Corn Detasseler

When the "corn is as high as an elephant's eye"
it must be time for detasseling. If you live in
the United States' Midwestern corn-belt, chances
are that you or family members have spent a
summer walking between rows of corn plants
removing corn tassels.
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Citations

• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/scien
  ce/learn_more.html

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Inventions and Their Inventors
By Kimeisha Moore