Thomas Edison was a man of broad and wide-ranging interests. During his lifetime, he developed inventions for consumers, businesses, and industries in fields ranging from sound reproduction to iron ore mining. Edison never limited his curiosity or his work. The one restriction he put upon his work was that a project had to have a practical commercial application. That meant his inventions had to have a market, so that the profits could fund new inventions.

Edison had previously built laboratories in Newark and in Menlo Park, New Jersey–indeed, he had already won the nickname of the "Wizard of Menlo Park"–when he moved to West Orange in 1886. When he began to build his new laboratory complex, Edison's goal was to have on hand everything needed to quickly and cheaply perfect inventions and ready them for mass production. All the necessary tools, machines, materials, and skilled personnel would be housed within the complex.

To assist him in his invention work, Edison employed a large and diverse staff of more than 200 machinists, scientists, craftsmen, and laborers. This staff was divided by Edison into as many as 10 to 20 small teams, each working simultaneously for as long as necessary to turn an idea into a perfected finished prototype or model. Edison himself would move from team to team advising and cajoling efforts as necessary. When a particular invention was perfected, Edison quickly patented the device. With such extensive facilities and his large staff, Edison was able to turn out new products on an unprecedented scale and with unprecedented speed. From the West Orange complex came improved phonographs, a perfected alkaline storage battery, the movie camera, and the fluoroscope (a diagnostic tool widely used before X-rays were perfected).

Long experience as an inventor had taught Edison that money was made not from selling patent rights or from royalties, but from the direct sale of the products to the public. In 1888, Edison began building factories next to his laboratory complex to manufacture the finished products based on his inventions. The finished products were distributed and sold around the country and abroad.

This process is most clearly shown by Edison's work on the phonograph. He was the original inventor of the product, which first used foil cylinders to record sound. Shortly after he opened his new laboratory, Edison heard that the rival inventors had been awarded patents for improvements to the machine. Rather than suing these rivals for infringement of his original patent, Edison set out to develop his own "perfected" phonograph. For nearly two years, he and his team dedicated themselves to that goal.

The diversity of Edison's inventive interests and industries helped the financial stability of his complex. The profits from older, successful inventions and companies provided the needed financial support for Edison's new ideas and companies. For example, during the long, difficult, and very expensive struggle to develop the alkaline storage battery, Edison's already successful phonograph business provided the necessary financial support.

By uniting the resources of the laboratories and factories, Edison was able to accomplish far more than would have otherwise been possible. Edison and other inventors had previously been constrained by the small size of both their laboratories and their financial resources. By creating a large, diverse laboratory and factory complex, Edison could undertake more inventive projects with greater resources, both technological and financial, than had ever been possible before.

Edison worked at this laboratory complex for 44 years. With his modern research and development laboratory, Edison had the space, tools, and flexibility to work on any promising new idea that came to mind. With Edison's genius, the impossible became possible.

Directions: Using specific evidence from the text, write a well-developed paragraph responding to the following question.
How does the author support his claim that “Edison never limited his curiosity or his work” (para. 1)?

Answer:  Edison never limited his curiosity or his work.

Explanation:

Answer:

telephone

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what is the most memorable trip of your life?​

Read the excerpt from "Lady Liberty." It was a very good plan given the poor state of repair on Bedloe. Still, Papa and I decided to risk the sagging wooden stairs and climb to the crown. Inside, kerosene lamps were the only light. The air was stale, and it seemed like a place where accidents could happen. Even so, a crowd of people were willing to risk their safety and climb 354 steps for a view of the harbor and city. To me, it seemed as if every stair was a step toward freedom and light.


Which is the best objective summary of this excerpt?


A. The air inside the Statue of Liberty smelled old and stuffy, which made it hard to climb to the top.

B. Climbing up to the top of the Statue of Liberty was worth any risk that may have resulted.

C. There was very little light inside the Statue of Liberty, but people, including the narrator, still climbed to the top.

D. Despite the conditions inside the Statue of Liberty, many people, including the narrator, climbed up to the top.

“Life is a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” Support the given comment with logical arguments.

Arabs who live in North Africa can trace their ancestry to the Middle East. Please select the best answer from the choices provided T F

Select the correct answer.
Beth has been diagnosed with a psychological disorder based on the 4 Ds. What are they
OA.
distress, deviance, danger, dysfunctional
OB. dejection, danger, disappointment, distress
O C. deviance, discomfort, dread, dysfunctional
OD. depression, deviance, danger, disappointment

In Act I of The Crucible, why does Reverend Parris seek help for Betty from Reverend Hale?

Why do you think that the social injustice of gender discrimination is unfair.

Hatchet book.
Write 3 things Brian had to do finally get the items in the survival pack.

Help! really fast pls

From "The Tyranny of Things" by Elizabeth Morris

Two fifteen-year-old girls stood eyeing one another on first acquaintance. Finally one little girl said, "Which do you like best, people or things?" The other little girl said, "Things." They were friends at once.

I suppose we all go through a phase when we like things best; and not only like them, but want to possess them under our hand. The passion for accumulation is upon us. We make "collections," we fill our rooms, our walls, our tables, our desks, with things, things, things.

Many people never pass out of this phase. They never see a flower without wanting to pick it and put it in a vase, they never enjoy a book without wanting to own it, nor a picture without wanting to hang it on their walls. They keep photographs of all their friends and kodak albums of all the places they visit, they save all their theater programmes and dinner cards, they bring home all their alpenstocks. Their houses are filled with an undigested mass of things, like the terminal moraine where a glacier dumps at length everything it has picked up during its progress through the lands.

But to some of us a day comes when we begin to grow weary of things. We realize that we do not possess them; they possess us. Our books are a burden to us, our pictures have destroyed every restful wall-space, our china is a care, our photographs drive us mad, our programmes and alpenstocks fill us with loathing. We feel stifled with the sense of things, and our problem becomes, not how much we can accumulate, but how much we can do without. We send our books to the village library, and our pictures to the college settlement. Such things as we cannot give away, and have not the courage to destroy, we stack in the garret, where they lie huddled in dim and dusty heaps, removed from our sight, to be sure, yet still faintly importunate.

Then, as we breathe more freely in the clear space that we have made for ourselves, we grow aware that we must not relax our vigilance, or we shall be once more overwhelmed.

For it is an age of things. As I walk through the shops at Christmas time and survey their contents, I find it a most depressing spectacle. All of us have too many things already, and here are more! And everybody is going to send some of them to everybody else! I sympathize with one of my friends, who, at the end of the Christmas festivities, said, "If I see another bit of tissue paper and red ribbon, I shall scream."

It extends to all our doings. For every event there is a "souvenir." We cannot go to luncheon and meet our friends but we must receive a token to carry away. Even our children cannot have a birthday party, and play games, and eat good things, and be happy. The host must receive gifts from every little guest, and provide in return some little remembrance for each to take home. Truly, on all sides we are beset, and we go lumbering along through life like a ship encrusted with barnacles, which can never cut the waves clean and sure and swift until she has been scraped bare again. And there seems little hope for us this side our last port.

And to think that there was a time when folk had not even that hope! When a man’s possessions were burned with him, so that he might, forsooth, have them all about him in the next world! Suffocating thought! To think one could not even then be clear of things, and make at least a fresh start! That must, indeed, have been in the childhood of the race.

One central idea of Morris’s essay is that getting rid of things can be a relief for people. Which two of these details help illustrate that idea?

Choose one answer from each group. Type the LETTER ONLY for each answer in the correct blank.

Type A, B, C, or D for Blank 1.

Their houses are filled with an undigested mass of things, like the terminal moraine where a glacier dumps at length everything it has picked up during its progress through the lands.
Truly, on all sides we are beset, and we go lumbering along through life like a ship encrusted with barnacles.
Such things as we cannot give away, and have not the courage to destroy, we stack in the garret.
Then, as we breathe more freely in the clear space that we have made for ourselves, we grow aware that we must not relax our vigilance.

Type E, F, G, or H for Blank 2.
The host must receive gifts from every little guest, and provide in return some little remembrance for each to take home.
We cannot go to luncheon and meet our friends but we must receive a token to carry away.
And to think that there was a time when folk had not even that hope!
To think one could not even then be clear of things, and make at least a fresh start! That must, indeed, have been in the childhood of the race.
Answer for Blank 1:

Answer for Blank 2:

Which best describes the speaker’s attitude toward the dandelion?

one of my best friends are going to travel to Europe this summer which option best revises this sentence to use correct subject-verb
A change one of my best friends to my best friend Tim
Bchange are going to is going to
C change this summer to next summer
Dchange travel to Europe to travels to Europe

if given a chance to be the overall in charge of the national security council of the country, what will be your (3) top priority security programs for your countrymen? explain.​

4. What is Old Man Warner's attitude about those who would like to change
things?

Decide whether each of the following groups of words is a complete sentence (an independent clause) or an incomplete sentence (a dependent clause). If the sentence is incomplete, capitalize it and do whatever else is necessary to make it complete. If the sentence is complete, capitalize the first word and add the appropriate ending punctuation.
three ships went with Columbus
because they found no gold in that country
after they went running through
he wants to visit the moon
the boy who has lots of freckles
she turned a page in her book
a book that I read
before the race began

What do context and inferences have in common?

You cannot tell the meaning of a word by how it is used.
You can decide how to write a story based on inferences.
You can infer the context of a story based on dictionary definitions.
You can use the context of a story to infer what is going on.

Which of the following quotes best represents the theme of gender in the novel?

•None of the Iraqi men seemed to take notice of Marla, but the women did, and I saw one of them smiling."

•"We want freedom, we want love, we want a chance to go to heaven when the time comes."

•we will be able to divert men away from that operation to providing security for your people."

•You're not allowed to treat Iraqis."

How does the ballerina’s attitude toward her kickboxing class change? Include examples from the last six stanzas of the poem to support your answer.
from the poem "New Moves"
30 points to whoever answers

The Golden Rule, What connections do all of the quotes have?

What critical skills do you use to identify a claim ?

1.682 inches rounded to the nearest whole number is 1.6 inches true or false

Which statement would NOT be a problem with the government implementing fiscal policy?
A)
bureaucratic lag would cause a delay in economic benefit
B)
politically motivated unnecessary spending on public works
international trade weakens the effect of the governmental policy
D)
an increase in the interest rate can negatively affect investment spending
and the housing market

10. A phrase is different from a clause because phrases do not contain and​

Where is Georgia State College located?
a.
Milledgeville
c.
Andalusia
b.
Savannah
d.
Out in the countryside


Please select the best answer from the choices provided

A
B
C
D

This is probably really easy but, I would like if someone told me the answers because I can’t decide on my choices. Please answer quickly it is due today! This is on Pigs is Pigs commonlit assignment.

Neeeeeeed heeeeelp. Contact sports should be banned in high schools? tell me the reasons why they should stop the sport like it will help them to what?!​

what's a powerful bullying title for slam poetry! ur own words!​

Write a letter to your parents

Kevin has a credit score of 605. According to the following table, his credit
rating is considered to be which of these?
Ifyour EICO credit score is
Your credit rating is considered to be
Excellent
Good
750
660
620
350
850
-749
-659
-619
Poor
OA. Excellent
OB. Fair
Oc. Poor
OD. Good

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which is a frequent source of controversy in public debates, says that "a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The controversy stems from the fact that some Americans feel that the Second Amendment guarantees all citizens the absolute right to own firearms, while others believe that some restrictions on gun ownership are consistent with the Second Amendment.

Which of the following sentences best describes the author’s message in this passage?

The Second Amendment addresses the topic of gun control, which is a current issue.
Americans have found that the Second Amendment can be interpreted in different ways.
The US Constitution contains many examples of amendments that people debate today.
There is no need to debate the issue of gun control when the Second Amendment is so clear.