Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Van Helsing 2 : Redemption - Original Trailer
I chose this film because it incorporated Frankenstein, Dracula and many elements of a Gothic scenario Like:Darkness,mystery,gargoyles,vampires,castles.all of this elements are such a great combination for an excellent Gothic movie.
Richard Gatling created his gun during the American Civil War, he sincerely believed that his invention would end war by making it unthinkable to use due to the horrific carnage possible by his weapons. At the least, the Gatling Gun's power would reduce the number of soldiers required to remain on the battlefield.
The 1862 version of the gatling gun had reloadable steel chambers and used percussion caps. It was prone to occasional jamming. In 1867, Gatling redesigned the Gatling gun again to use metallic cartridges - this version was bought and used by the United States Army.
World power is very charming for everybody. Everybody wants to role over the world just like victor wanted to. All these people invent the machines to be the most powerful person in the world and end up harming the world with his invention.
http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/Gatling_Gun.htm
Humaira Mushtaq
Invention of the postage stamp
The first issued postage stamp began with Great Britain's Penny Post. On May 6, 1840, the British Penny Black stamp was released. The Penny Black was engraved the profile of Queen Victoria's head, who remained on all British stamps for the next sixty years. Rowland Hill created the first stamp.
A schoolmaster from England, Rowland Hill invented the adhesive postage stamp in 1837, an act for which he was knighted. Through his efforts the first stamp in the world was issued in England in 1840. Roland Hill also created the first uniform postage rates that were based on weight rather than size. Hill's stamps made the prepayment of mail postage possible and practical.
Walton, a captain of a ship, told the victor’s story in a series of letters to his sister. These letters could not reach Walton’s sister without the postal services and the postal stamps.
http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/postage_stamps.htm
Humaira Mushtaq
The invention of first electric light
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllight2.htm
Humaira Mushtaq
Matrix
Ronald
Roswell
Ron
Percy Jackson
Ronnie
Friday, April 23, 2010
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Vaccination
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MatchEs
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Medical science established
"Despite the exciting advances that took place in science and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was only in the nineteenth century that medicine itself became scientific. This was largely the result of the integration of the natural sciences into medical theory. During the eighteenth century the foundations of scientific medicine were first established."
(http://www.bookrags.com/research/overview-medicine-1800-1899-scit-051234/)
Since the human body was an unknown field, Mary Shelley made a good choice by experimenting with it. She gives Dr.Frankenstein such an ambition and passion towards a field of science that is waiting for a revolutionary movement to happen. It just so happens that he was the initiator of the major movement in the medical/human body field.
-Michael
science advances
"The 19th century was the age of machine tools - tools that made tools - machines that made parts for other machines, including interchangeable parts. The assembly line was invented during the 19th century, speeding up the factory production of consumer goods.
The 19th century gave birth to the professional scientist, the word scientist was first used in 1833 by William Whewell. Inventors began to design practical internal combustion engines. The lightbulb, telephone, typewriter, sewing machine, all came of age during the 19th century."
(http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/Nineteenth.htm)Mary Shelley very fittingly made the possibility of the creation being created in this era, because new inventions were taking the world by storm. Anything was possible.
-Michael
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
science as a profession
"The 19th century saw the birth of science as a profession; the term scientist was coined in 1833 by William Whewell[9]. Among the most influential ideas of the 19th century were those of Charles Darwin, who in 1859 published the book The Origin of Species, which introduced the idea of evolution by natural selection. Louis Pasteur made the first vaccine against rabies, and also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, including the asymmetry of crystals. Thomas Alva Edison gave the world a practical everyday lightbulb. Karl Weierstrass and other mathematicians also carried out the arithmetization of analysis. But the most important step in science at this time was the ideas formulated by Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell. Their work changed the face of physics and made possible for new technology to come about."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century)
-Michael
Breakthrough in physics
"James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish[1] theoretical physicist and mathematician. His most important achievement was classical electromagnetic theory, synthesizing all previously unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism and even optics into a consistent theory.[2] His set of equations—Maxwell's equations—demonstrated that electricity, magnetism and even light are all manifestations of the same phenomenon: the electromagnetic field. From that moment on, all other classic laws or equations of these disciplines became simplified cases of Maxwell's equations. Maxwell's work in electromagnetism has been called the "second great unification in physics",[3] after the first one carried out by Isaac Newton.
Maxwell demonstrated that electric and magnetic fields travel through space in the form of waves, and at the constant speed of light. Finally, in 1864 Maxwell wrote "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field", where he first proposed that light was in fact undulations in the same medium that is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.[4] His work in producing a unified model of electromagnetism is considered to be one of the greatest advances in physics."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell)"
Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
Faraday studied the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a DC electric current, and established the basis for the electromagnetic field concept in physics. He discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and laws of electrolysis. He established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an underlying relationship between the two phenomena.[1][2] His inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices formed the foundation of electric motor technology, and it was largely due to his efforts that electricity became viable for use in technology."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday)Since Mary Shelley used the very believable idea of electricity to give birth to Frankenstein's creation, the new impact of electricity and electromagnetic fields is very fitting as an influence for the book.
-Michael
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
British electrician, William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet in 1825. The first electromagnet was a horseshoe-shaped piece of iron that was wrapped with a loosely wound coil of several turns. When a current was passed through the coil; the electromagnet became magnetized and when the current was stopped the coil was de-magnetized.
Monday, April 5, 2010
www.answers.com/topic/industrial-revolution
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http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/0133.html
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Galvanism in the 1800s
(http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/2003/ginn.html)
Galvanism was used in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley to give life to the creature and is also the solid form of science built upon the science fiction within the story. It is only evident that Mary Shelley use this new found experiment, seeing as it was a popular topic back then and very relevant to her story.
-Michael Nazares
Thursday, March 25, 2010
As the creation of a man is like a series of steps, that can be shown from the above quote of a scientist, but Vector didn`t go from all the steps. He create something just with the reactioons of different chemical, and these reaction was isolated from the others, but with the creation of that thing, thhat was not a man but was Monster who made Vector to be sad and worry on him. The process of craetion of man was not natural, so the result he got was also not natural, which make him feel bad stressed.
scientists in the 1800
-Michael Nazares
Friday, March 19, 2010
1800, A Scientific Revolution Century
Thursday, March 18, 2010
www.welshminerslamps.com/info_lamp_history.shtml states that In 1815 a guy by the name of Davy Humphry invents a Miner Safety Lamp for the usee of coal mines. He discovered a way that this lamp with many flammable gases can be around while in the coal mine. He placed a metal gauze around the flame in order to separate the heat from the flame to make the ignition temperature of methane be lower.
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frankenstein, science in the 1800's
According to wikipedia "The year
And it eventually becomes too much for him to handle. He eventually loses control of science, just as how Shelley thought society would lose control of science during the revolution.
-Michael Nazares
Scientist Robert Stirling invented the hot air engine in 1816, well know as the regenerator. Hot air engine uses the growth and shorting of air under the power of a temperature change to change thermal energy into mechanical work. Today many hot air engines are named after Stiriling - Vinicios Santos