By Unikqe
There are basically three types of wisdom viz:
• The Wisdom of God
• The Wisdom of Man
• The wisdom of Satan
The Wisdom of God:
What is God’s wisdom? {Proverb 1 vs. 7} The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. What does it means to fear God?
Firstly, it means to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. Therefore the fear of the Lord is wisdom and wisdom is to accept the gospel of Jesus into your life. It is written in the book of proverb 1 vs. 20 that “wisdom” calls aloud outside. Which wisdom? The fear of God, meaning the gospel of Jesus Christ. That means that the gospel is crying aloud if only just anybody can listen and attend to the words of wisdom. If we turn to the book of John 1 vs. 12 it reads “But AS MANY AS receive Him to them He gave the power (authority, ability) to become children of God, to those who believe in His name” Now this are the consequences of not accepting Jesus In proverb 1 vs. 25 it reads “Because you (plural) have disdained all my (wisdom’s) counsel and would not have none of my rebuke 26. I will also laugh at your calamity; I will laugh when your terror comes in vs. 28 it says Then (After the rapture) they will call on me but I will not answer they will seek me diligently but they will not find me. Do you know that Christ is not condemning you? Why? Because He also came in flesh. He felt what you are feeling; He knows how difficult it is to overcome temptation; He knows what peer pressure is; He knows how interesting and sweet it is to sleep at home when it is time to go to church. In fact He doesn’t only know it He feels it {for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weakness, but was in all point tempted as we are yet without sin. Hebrews 4 vs. 16} that’s why He is calling you to come. It’s so simple!!! Just accept Him. If you have not accepted Jesus and you are reading this blog I invite you today to make Jesus Christ the Lord of your life today. It’s what trying! That is the highest category of wisdom!! If you are ready, please join me to say these prayers
Dear Lord Jesus, I believe that you died for me and rose again on the third day. I confess that I am a sinner. I need your love and forgiveness. Come into my heart. Forgive my sins. I receive your eternal life. Confirm your love by giving me peace, joy and supernatural love for others in Jesus name. Amen. That’s wisdom!!! If you have just said that prayer you are welcome to God’s family. Please click here for further information. This links to the second meaning of The Fear Of God
Haven receive Jesus Christ which is the basic wisdom there are some other meaning of the fear of God which is Obeying the commandments of God, serving God and acknowledging Him “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will Direct your part. Do not be wise in your own eyes, fear the lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh and strength to your bones {proverb 3 vs. 5¬ – 8}
THE WISDOM OF MAN:
If you wouldn’t mind check out the previous pages of “WHAT IS WISDOM” that’s where the detailed explanation of what the wisdom of man is.
THE WISDOM OF SATAN:
This means foolishness to the wisdom of God and God’s wisdom is foolishness to the wisdom of Satan. They are of word and opposite. For example if you were given an instruction not to go out of the house and unfortunately you are feeling boring that’s an avenue for Satan to display his wisdom. Then he’ll come and tell you “You can go, just make sure you return before they come back, no one will know” at that particular time in that place you’ll think that’s the true wisdom why? Because it solves your immediate problem and it is also a short cut but always remember that those who take short cut will be cut short. Please never listen to such; it is an idea from the devil. That’s not the only the way it could come it has different dimensions such as: “Stealing by style”, fraud etc that’s why proverb 1 vs. 19 says “so are the ways of everyone who is greedy for grain (stealing, fraud, current trafficking, etc) it takes the life of its owners” Please and please don’t accept it, rebuke it when it comes because it will surely come. Why should I rebuke it? You may say. Because your thought leads to your attitude which later becomes your habit; then matures into the form of behavior then finally it becomes your character. Take Caution
Another way to identify the wisdom of the Devil is in James 3 vs. 14 – 16 which reads “But if you have bitter envy and self seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth 15. This wisdom does not descend from above (God) but it is earthly, sensual, and demonic 16. For where there is envy and self seeking exist, confusion, and every evil thing is there. GOD BLESS YOU.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
WISDOM
By Unikqe
What is wisdom?……………………………….1
Types of wisdom………………………………..2
Benefits of wisdom…………………………….3
How to get wisdom……………………………..4
Wisdom quotes…………………………………..5
Wisdom Is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and with all thy gettings get understanding {proverb 4 vs. 7}
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of {proverb 1 vs. 7}
If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it will be given to him {James 1 vs. 5}
But the Wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy {James 3 vs. 17}
WHAT IS WISDOM? 1
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge and knowledge is anything you know and you are sure of. For example if you know that you have to help mummy do some home chores and you don’t that means that means you are not wise, but if you know that you ought to do so and you did it then you are wise. It has been observed among us teenagers and youth that 70% of us want to be told or reminded of what we already know we should do. This is unwise. If you have the knowledge of what to do go ahead and do them. That’s wisdom!!! It may not be easy, yes! In fact it is not! But you’ve got to try, just start from somewhere. You might make mistakes, Yes! No one is perfect, just try as much as possible to use your knowledge rightly and before you know it, it becomes part of your life. If you are thinking “How Will I Do It?” remember “WHEN YOU DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT THE HOW TO DO IT WILL EMERGE” - Mike Murdock. So start acting now. Remember, you don’t have an excuse “YOU ARE THE ARCHITECT OF YOUR DESTINY” – Charles Popson.
What is wisdom?……………………………….1
Types of wisdom………………………………..2
Benefits of wisdom…………………………….3
How to get wisdom……………………………..4
Wisdom quotes…………………………………..5
Wisdom Is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and with all thy gettings get understanding {proverb 4 vs. 7}
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of {proverb 1 vs. 7}
If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it will be given to him {James 1 vs. 5}
But the Wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy {James 3 vs. 17}
WHAT IS WISDOM? 1
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge and knowledge is anything you know and you are sure of. For example if you know that you have to help mummy do some home chores and you don’t that means that means you are not wise, but if you know that you ought to do so and you did it then you are wise. It has been observed among us teenagers and youth that 70% of us want to be told or reminded of what we already know we should do. This is unwise. If you have the knowledge of what to do go ahead and do them. That’s wisdom!!! It may not be easy, yes! In fact it is not! But you’ve got to try, just start from somewhere. You might make mistakes, Yes! No one is perfect, just try as much as possible to use your knowledge rightly and before you know it, it becomes part of your life. If you are thinking “How Will I Do It?” remember “WHEN YOU DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT THE HOW TO DO IT WILL EMERGE” - Mike Murdock. So start acting now. Remember, you don’t have an excuse “YOU ARE THE ARCHITECT OF YOUR DESTINY” – Charles Popson.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Preparing For an Enduring Success
By Adenuga Sunday Joseph
First of all I will want you to understand some important points about what success is not, this is very crucial and important to us as we aspire to get to the top of the ladder in our chosen career. After this I will delve into what I believe success is observing the subject from a general perspective.
Success is not a destination; it is an adventure, a continuous journey that can only end when you successfully make it to heaven.
Success is not luck; you can only get it through hard work and systematic planning.
Success is not money; it is accomplishing your purpose in life. Do you know that some people who have money are not truly successful? I have heard and read about rich people who died lonely, miserable and feeling unaccomplished in life.
Success is not the absence of problems; it is the ability to solve problems that sinks other less determined people in the sea of life.
Success is not been born to a rich family, it is the ability to bring wealth and comfort to a hitherto poor family. Nobody was born a failure or success; we become with time whatever we are now.
Success is the ability to shine out of darkness like God in Genesis 1: 1-3. By this I mean the ability to turn seemingly impossible situation to real time success.
Success is inside you, failure is around you. God is success, and He is inside you see 1John 4: 4 Satan is outside (and around) you and is the cause of every failed attempt. Stop looking around you for success, start looking inward, success is in you, stop looking elsewhere.
Success is your birthright, so prepare for success it is not far-fetched, it is not even around you, it is so near that you can only touch it from the inside of you.
Steps to success:
• Be prayerful. Prayer is the ability to tell God to do for you what you cannot do for yourself. You need to pray all the time to achieve the note-worthy success that you are running after.
• Have a carefully prepared plan of action for each day and work hard to follow all your plans for the day, week, month or year. Nothing leads to success more that following a well prepared plan of action.
• To accomplish the above point, it is a good idea if you can have a list of what you plan to do every day, we call it ‘to do list,’ you need to write down in order of priority the things that you plan to accomplish for the day, week, month and year. You tick each item as they are accomplished, this will help you to have a good appraisal on the progress of your plans.
• Have an attitude to do now anything that must be done. Never postpone any thing that should and could be done, do it now. If you make this your motto, you will succeed beyond any imagination.
Prepare for success by following the above suggestions and you are on your way to everlasting success, wishing you all the best in life.
First of all I will want you to understand some important points about what success is not, this is very crucial and important to us as we aspire to get to the top of the ladder in our chosen career. After this I will delve into what I believe success is observing the subject from a general perspective.
Success is not a destination; it is an adventure, a continuous journey that can only end when you successfully make it to heaven.
Success is not luck; you can only get it through hard work and systematic planning.
Success is not money; it is accomplishing your purpose in life. Do you know that some people who have money are not truly successful? I have heard and read about rich people who died lonely, miserable and feeling unaccomplished in life.
Success is not the absence of problems; it is the ability to solve problems that sinks other less determined people in the sea of life.
Success is not been born to a rich family, it is the ability to bring wealth and comfort to a hitherto poor family. Nobody was born a failure or success; we become with time whatever we are now.
Success is the ability to shine out of darkness like God in Genesis 1: 1-3. By this I mean the ability to turn seemingly impossible situation to real time success.
Success is inside you, failure is around you. God is success, and He is inside you see 1John 4: 4 Satan is outside (and around) you and is the cause of every failed attempt. Stop looking around you for success, start looking inward, success is in you, stop looking elsewhere.
Success is your birthright, so prepare for success it is not far-fetched, it is not even around you, it is so near that you can only touch it from the inside of you.
Steps to success:
• Be prayerful. Prayer is the ability to tell God to do for you what you cannot do for yourself. You need to pray all the time to achieve the note-worthy success that you are running after.
• Have a carefully prepared plan of action for each day and work hard to follow all your plans for the day, week, month or year. Nothing leads to success more that following a well prepared plan of action.
• To accomplish the above point, it is a good idea if you can have a list of what you plan to do every day, we call it ‘to do list,’ you need to write down in order of priority the things that you plan to accomplish for the day, week, month and year. You tick each item as they are accomplished, this will help you to have a good appraisal on the progress of your plans.
• Have an attitude to do now anything that must be done. Never postpone any thing that should and could be done, do it now. If you make this your motto, you will succeed beyond any imagination.
Prepare for success by following the above suggestions and you are on your way to everlasting success, wishing you all the best in life.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Thomas Edison
Folks, today is another day to learn from another person called THOMAS EDISON who invent the first light bulb. He is a great man indeed. Pals let bend low & learn from an higher source of life.
Early Life
Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, and was raised in Port Huron, Michigan. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (1804–1896) (born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, Canada) and Nancy Matthews Edison nee Elliott (1810–1871). His family was of Dutch origin.[1]
In school, the young Edison's mind often wandered, and his teacher, the Reverend Engle, was overheard calling him "addled." This ended Edison's three months of official schooling. He recalled later, "My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint." His mother then home schooled him.[2] Much of his education came from reading R.G. Parker's School of Natural Philosophy and The Cooper Union.
Edison developed hearing problems at an early age. The cause of Edison's deafness has been attributed to a bout of scarlet fever during childhood and recurring untreated middle ear infections. Around the middle of his career Edison attributed the hearing loss to being struck on the ears by a train conductor when his chemical lab in a boxcar caught fire, and was thrown off the train in Smiths Creek, Michigan, along with his apparatus and chemicals. In his later years he modified the story to say the injury occurred when the conductor, in helping him onto a moving train, lifted him by the ears.[3][4]
Edison's family was forced to move to Port Huron, Michigan, when the railroad bypassed Milan in 1854,[5] but his life there was bittersweet. He sold candy and newspapers on trains running from Port Huron to Detroit, as well as vegetables that he sold to supplement his income. This began Edison's long streak of entrepreneurial ventures as he discovered his talents as a businessman. These talents would eventually lead him to found General Electric, which is still a publicly traded company, and 13 other companies.
Edison became a telegraph operator after he saved three-year-old Jimmie MacKenzie from being struck by a runaway train. Jimmie's father, station agent J.U. MacKenzie of Mount Clemens, Michigan, was so grateful that he trained Edison as a telegraph operator. Edison's first telegraphy job away from Port Huron was at Stratford Junction, Ontario, on the Grand Trunk Railway.[6] In 1866, at the age of 19, Thomas Edison moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where as an employee of Western Union he worked the Associated Press bureau news wire. Edison requested the night shift at work which allowed him plenty of time to spend at his two favorite pastimes -- reading and experimenting. Eventually, the latter pre-occupation cost him his job. One night in 1867, he was working with a battery when he spilled sulphuric acid onto the floor. It ran between the floorboards and onto his boss' desk below. The next morning he was fired.[7]
One of his mentors during those early years was a fellow telegrapher and inventor named Franklin Leonard Pope, who allowed the impoverished youth to live and work in the basement of his Elizabeth, New Jersey, home.
Some of Edison's earliest inventions were related to telegraphy, including a stock ticker. His first patent was for the electric vote recorder, (U. S. Patent 90,646),[8] which was granted on June 1, 1869.[9]
MARRAIGE & CHILDREN
On December 25, 1871, at the age of 24, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell, whom he had met two months earlier. They had three children:
Marion Estelle Edison (1873–1965), nicknamed "Dot"
Thomas Alva Edison Jr. (1876–1935), nicknamed "Dash"
William Leslie Edison (1878–1937)[10]
Mary Edison died on August 9, 1884.
On February 24, 1886, at the age of 39, Edison married 20-year-old Mina Miller in Akron, Ohio.[11] She was the daughter of inventor Lewis Miller, co-founder of the Chautauqua Institution and a benefactor of Methodist charities. They also had three children:
Madeleine Edison (1888–1979), who married John Eyre Sloane[12][13]
Charles Edison (1890–1969), who took over the company upon his father's death and who later was elected Governor of New Jersey[14] He is buried in Rosedale Cemetery in Orange, New Jersey.
Theodore Miller Edison (1898–1992).[15]
Mina outlived Thomas Edison, dying on August 24, 1947.[16][17
Beginning his career
Photograph of Edison with his phonograph, taken by Mathew Brady in 1877.
Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention which first gained him fame was the phonograph in 1877. This accomplishment was so unexpected by the public at large as to appear almost magical. Edison became known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," New Jersey, where he lived. His first phonograph recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder and had poor sound quality. The tinfoil recordings could only be replayed a few times. In the 1880s, a redesigned model using wax-coated cardboard cylinders was produced by Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and Charles Tainter. This was one reason that Thomas Edison continued work on his own "Perfected Phonograph."
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Thomas Edison saying "Mary Had a Little Lamb"=Ogg
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Menlo Park
Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory, removed to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. (Note the organ against the back wall)
Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb model, used in public demonstration at Menlo Park, December 1879.
U.S. Patent #223898 Electric Lamp
Edison's major innovation was the first industrial research lab, which was built in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was the first institution set up with the specific purpose of producing constant technological innovation and improvement. Edison was legally attributed with most of the inventions produced there, though many employees carried out research and development work under his direction. His staff was generally told to carry out his directions in conducting research, and he drove them hard to produce results. The large research group, which included engineers and other workers, based much of their research on work done by others before them.
William J. Hammer, a consulting electrical engineer, began his duties as a laboratory assistant to Edison in December 1879. He assisted in experiments on the telephone, phonograph, electric railway, iron ore separator, electric lighting, and other developing inventions. However, Hammer worked primarily on the incandescent electric lamp and was put in charge of tests and records on that device. In 1880, he was appointed chief engineer of the Edison Lamp Works. In his first year, the plant under General Manager Francis Robbins Upton turned out 50,000 lamps. According to Edison, Hammer was "a pioneer of incandescent electric lighting."
Nearly all of Edison's patents were utility patents, which were protected for a 17 year period and included inventions or processes that are electrical, mechanical, or chemical in nature. About a dozen were design patents, which protect an ornamental design for up to a 14 year period. Like most patents, the inventions he described were improvements over prior art. The phonograph patent, on the other hand, was unprecedented as the first device to record and reproduce sounds.[18] Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light. Several designs had already been developed by earlier inventors including the patent he purchased from Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans, Moses G. Farmer,[19] Joseph Swan, James Bowman Lindsay, William E. Sawyer, Sir Humphry Davy, and Heinrich Göbel. Some of these early bulbs had such flaws as extremely short life, high expense to produce, and high current draw, making them difficult to apply on a large scale commercially. In 1878, Edison applied the term filament to the element of glowing wire carrying the current, although English inventor Joseph Swan had used the term prior to this. Edison took the features of these earlier designs and set his workers to the task of creating longer-lasting bulbs. By 1879, he had produced a new concept: a high resistance lamp in a very high vacuum, which would burn for hundreds of hours. While the earlier inventors had produced electric lighting in laboratory conditions, dating back to a demonstration of a glowing wire by Alessandro Volta in 1800, Edison concentrated on commercial application, and was able to sell the concept to homes and businesses by mass-producing relatively long-lasting light bulbs and creating a complete system for the generation and distribution of electricity.
The Menlo Park research lab was made possible by the sale of the quadruplex telegraph that Edison invented in 1874, which could send four simultaneous telegraph signals over the same wire. When Edison asked Western Union to make an offer, he was shocked at the unexpectedly large amount that Western Union offered; the patent rights were sold for $10,000. The quadruplex telegraph was Edison's first big financial success.
In just over a decade Edison's Menlo Park laboratory had expanded to consume two city blocks. Edison said he wanted the lab to have "a stock of almost every conceivable material." A newspaper article printed in 1887 reveals the seriousness of his claim, stating the lab contained "eight thousand kinds of chemicals, every kind of screw made, every size of needle, every kind of cord or wire, hair of humans, horses, hogs, cows, rabbits, goats, minx, camels...silk in every texture, cocoons, various kinds of hoofs, shark's teeth, deer horns, tortoise shell...cork, resin, varnish and oil, ostrich feathers, a peacock's tail, jet, amber, rubber, all ores..." and the list goes on.[20]
Over his desk, Edison displayed a placard with Sir Joshua Reynolds' famous quote: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."[21] This slogan was reputedly posted at several other locations throughout the facility.
With Menlo Park, Edison had created the first industrial laboratory concerned with creating knowledge and then controlling its application.
Carbon telephone transmitter
In 1877-1878, Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone used in all telephones along with the Bell receiver until the 1980s. After protracted patent litigation, in 1892 a federal court ruled that Edison -- and not Emile Berliner -- was the inventor of the carbon microphone. (Josephson, p146). The carbon microphone was also used in radio broadcasting and public address work through the 1920s.
Electric light
Main article: History of the light bulb
After many experiments with platinum and other metal filaments, Edison returned to a carbon filament. The first successful test was on October 22, 1879;[22] and lasted 13.5 hours. Edison continued to improve this design and by November 4, 1879, filed for U.S. patent 223,898 (granted on January 27, 1880) for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires."[23] Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament including "cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various ways,"[23] it was not until several months after the patent was granted that Edison and his team discovered a carbonized bamboo filament could last over 1200 hours.
Edison bought light bulb U.S. patent 181,613 of Henry Woodward that was issued August 29, 1876 and obtained an exclusive license to Woodward's Canadian patent. These patents covered a carbon filament in a rarefied gas bulb.[citation needed]
Edison in 1878
In 1878, Edison formed the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City with several financiers, including J. P. Morgan and the members of the Vanderbilt family. Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park. It was during this time that he said, "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."[24]
George Westinghouse's company bought Philip Diehl's competing induction lamp patent rights (1882) for $25,000, forcing the holders of the Edison patent to charge a more reasonable rate for the use of the Edison patent rights and lowering the price of the electric lamp.[25]
On October 8, 1883, the U.S. patent office ruled that Edison's patent was based on the work of William Sawyer and was therefore invalid. Litigation continued for nearly six years, until October 6, 1889, when a judge ruled that Edison's electric light improvement claim for "a filament of carbon of high resistance" was valid. To avoid a possible court battle with Joseph Swan, whose British patent had been awarded a year before Edison's, he and Swan formed a joint company called Ediswan to manufacture and market the invention in Britain.
The Mahen Theatre in Brno in what is now the Czech Republic, was the first public building in the world to use Edison's electric lamps, with the installation supervised by Edison's assistant in the invention of the lamp, Francis Jehl. [26]
Thomas Edison died At 9 P.M. On Oct. 18th, 1931 in New Jersey. He was 84 years of age. Shortly before passing away, he awoke from a coma and quietly whispered to his very religious and faithful wife Mina, who had been keeping a vigil all night by his side: "It is very beautiful over there..."
Early Life
Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, and was raised in Port Huron, Michigan. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (1804–1896) (born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, Canada) and Nancy Matthews Edison nee Elliott (1810–1871). His family was of Dutch origin.[1]
In school, the young Edison's mind often wandered, and his teacher, the Reverend Engle, was overheard calling him "addled." This ended Edison's three months of official schooling. He recalled later, "My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint." His mother then home schooled him.[2] Much of his education came from reading R.G. Parker's School of Natural Philosophy and The Cooper Union.
Edison developed hearing problems at an early age. The cause of Edison's deafness has been attributed to a bout of scarlet fever during childhood and recurring untreated middle ear infections. Around the middle of his career Edison attributed the hearing loss to being struck on the ears by a train conductor when his chemical lab in a boxcar caught fire, and was thrown off the train in Smiths Creek, Michigan, along with his apparatus and chemicals. In his later years he modified the story to say the injury occurred when the conductor, in helping him onto a moving train, lifted him by the ears.[3][4]
Edison's family was forced to move to Port Huron, Michigan, when the railroad bypassed Milan in 1854,[5] but his life there was bittersweet. He sold candy and newspapers on trains running from Port Huron to Detroit, as well as vegetables that he sold to supplement his income. This began Edison's long streak of entrepreneurial ventures as he discovered his talents as a businessman. These talents would eventually lead him to found General Electric, which is still a publicly traded company, and 13 other companies.
Edison became a telegraph operator after he saved three-year-old Jimmie MacKenzie from being struck by a runaway train. Jimmie's father, station agent J.U. MacKenzie of Mount Clemens, Michigan, was so grateful that he trained Edison as a telegraph operator. Edison's first telegraphy job away from Port Huron was at Stratford Junction, Ontario, on the Grand Trunk Railway.[6] In 1866, at the age of 19, Thomas Edison moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where as an employee of Western Union he worked the Associated Press bureau news wire. Edison requested the night shift at work which allowed him plenty of time to spend at his two favorite pastimes -- reading and experimenting. Eventually, the latter pre-occupation cost him his job. One night in 1867, he was working with a battery when he spilled sulphuric acid onto the floor. It ran between the floorboards and onto his boss' desk below. The next morning he was fired.[7]
One of his mentors during those early years was a fellow telegrapher and inventor named Franklin Leonard Pope, who allowed the impoverished youth to live and work in the basement of his Elizabeth, New Jersey, home.
Some of Edison's earliest inventions were related to telegraphy, including a stock ticker. His first patent was for the electric vote recorder, (U. S. Patent 90,646),[8] which was granted on June 1, 1869.[9]
MARRAIGE & CHILDREN
On December 25, 1871, at the age of 24, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell, whom he had met two months earlier. They had three children:
Marion Estelle Edison (1873–1965), nicknamed "Dot"
Thomas Alva Edison Jr. (1876–1935), nicknamed "Dash"
William Leslie Edison (1878–1937)[10]
Mary Edison died on August 9, 1884.
On February 24, 1886, at the age of 39, Edison married 20-year-old Mina Miller in Akron, Ohio.[11] She was the daughter of inventor Lewis Miller, co-founder of the Chautauqua Institution and a benefactor of Methodist charities. They also had three children:
Madeleine Edison (1888–1979), who married John Eyre Sloane[12][13]
Charles Edison (1890–1969), who took over the company upon his father's death and who later was elected Governor of New Jersey[14] He is buried in Rosedale Cemetery in Orange, New Jersey.
Theodore Miller Edison (1898–1992).[15]
Mina outlived Thomas Edison, dying on August 24, 1947.[16][17
Beginning his career
Photograph of Edison with his phonograph, taken by Mathew Brady in 1877.
Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention which first gained him fame was the phonograph in 1877. This accomplishment was so unexpected by the public at large as to appear almost magical. Edison became known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," New Jersey, where he lived. His first phonograph recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder and had poor sound quality. The tinfoil recordings could only be replayed a few times. In the 1880s, a redesigned model using wax-coated cardboard cylinders was produced by Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and Charles Tainter. This was one reason that Thomas Edison continued work on his own "Perfected Phonograph."
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Thomas Edison saying "Mary Had a Little Lamb"=Ogg
Problems playing the files? See media help.
Menlo Park
Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory, removed to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. (Note the organ against the back wall)
Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb model, used in public demonstration at Menlo Park, December 1879.
U.S. Patent #223898 Electric Lamp
Edison's major innovation was the first industrial research lab, which was built in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was the first institution set up with the specific purpose of producing constant technological innovation and improvement. Edison was legally attributed with most of the inventions produced there, though many employees carried out research and development work under his direction. His staff was generally told to carry out his directions in conducting research, and he drove them hard to produce results. The large research group, which included engineers and other workers, based much of their research on work done by others before them.
William J. Hammer, a consulting electrical engineer, began his duties as a laboratory assistant to Edison in December 1879. He assisted in experiments on the telephone, phonograph, electric railway, iron ore separator, electric lighting, and other developing inventions. However, Hammer worked primarily on the incandescent electric lamp and was put in charge of tests and records on that device. In 1880, he was appointed chief engineer of the Edison Lamp Works. In his first year, the plant under General Manager Francis Robbins Upton turned out 50,000 lamps. According to Edison, Hammer was "a pioneer of incandescent electric lighting."
Nearly all of Edison's patents were utility patents, which were protected for a 17 year period and included inventions or processes that are electrical, mechanical, or chemical in nature. About a dozen were design patents, which protect an ornamental design for up to a 14 year period. Like most patents, the inventions he described were improvements over prior art. The phonograph patent, on the other hand, was unprecedented as the first device to record and reproduce sounds.[18] Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light. Several designs had already been developed by earlier inventors including the patent he purchased from Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans, Moses G. Farmer,[19] Joseph Swan, James Bowman Lindsay, William E. Sawyer, Sir Humphry Davy, and Heinrich Göbel. Some of these early bulbs had such flaws as extremely short life, high expense to produce, and high current draw, making them difficult to apply on a large scale commercially. In 1878, Edison applied the term filament to the element of glowing wire carrying the current, although English inventor Joseph Swan had used the term prior to this. Edison took the features of these earlier designs and set his workers to the task of creating longer-lasting bulbs. By 1879, he had produced a new concept: a high resistance lamp in a very high vacuum, which would burn for hundreds of hours. While the earlier inventors had produced electric lighting in laboratory conditions, dating back to a demonstration of a glowing wire by Alessandro Volta in 1800, Edison concentrated on commercial application, and was able to sell the concept to homes and businesses by mass-producing relatively long-lasting light bulbs and creating a complete system for the generation and distribution of electricity.
The Menlo Park research lab was made possible by the sale of the quadruplex telegraph that Edison invented in 1874, which could send four simultaneous telegraph signals over the same wire. When Edison asked Western Union to make an offer, he was shocked at the unexpectedly large amount that Western Union offered; the patent rights were sold for $10,000. The quadruplex telegraph was Edison's first big financial success.
In just over a decade Edison's Menlo Park laboratory had expanded to consume two city blocks. Edison said he wanted the lab to have "a stock of almost every conceivable material." A newspaper article printed in 1887 reveals the seriousness of his claim, stating the lab contained "eight thousand kinds of chemicals, every kind of screw made, every size of needle, every kind of cord or wire, hair of humans, horses, hogs, cows, rabbits, goats, minx, camels...silk in every texture, cocoons, various kinds of hoofs, shark's teeth, deer horns, tortoise shell...cork, resin, varnish and oil, ostrich feathers, a peacock's tail, jet, amber, rubber, all ores..." and the list goes on.[20]
Over his desk, Edison displayed a placard with Sir Joshua Reynolds' famous quote: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."[21] This slogan was reputedly posted at several other locations throughout the facility.
With Menlo Park, Edison had created the first industrial laboratory concerned with creating knowledge and then controlling its application.
Carbon telephone transmitter
In 1877-1878, Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone used in all telephones along with the Bell receiver until the 1980s. After protracted patent litigation, in 1892 a federal court ruled that Edison -- and not Emile Berliner -- was the inventor of the carbon microphone. (Josephson, p146). The carbon microphone was also used in radio broadcasting and public address work through the 1920s.
Electric light
Main article: History of the light bulb
After many experiments with platinum and other metal filaments, Edison returned to a carbon filament. The first successful test was on October 22, 1879;[22] and lasted 13.5 hours. Edison continued to improve this design and by November 4, 1879, filed for U.S. patent 223,898 (granted on January 27, 1880) for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires."[23] Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament including "cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various ways,"[23] it was not until several months after the patent was granted that Edison and his team discovered a carbonized bamboo filament could last over 1200 hours.
Edison bought light bulb U.S. patent 181,613 of Henry Woodward that was issued August 29, 1876 and obtained an exclusive license to Woodward's Canadian patent. These patents covered a carbon filament in a rarefied gas bulb.[citation needed]
Edison in 1878
In 1878, Edison formed the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City with several financiers, including J. P. Morgan and the members of the Vanderbilt family. Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park. It was during this time that he said, "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."[24]
George Westinghouse's company bought Philip Diehl's competing induction lamp patent rights (1882) for $25,000, forcing the holders of the Edison patent to charge a more reasonable rate for the use of the Edison patent rights and lowering the price of the electric lamp.[25]
On October 8, 1883, the U.S. patent office ruled that Edison's patent was based on the work of William Sawyer and was therefore invalid. Litigation continued for nearly six years, until October 6, 1889, when a judge ruled that Edison's electric light improvement claim for "a filament of carbon of high resistance" was valid. To avoid a possible court battle with Joseph Swan, whose British patent had been awarded a year before Edison's, he and Swan formed a joint company called Ediswan to manufacture and market the invention in Britain.
The Mahen Theatre in Brno in what is now the Czech Republic, was the first public building in the world to use Edison's electric lamps, with the installation supervised by Edison's assistant in the invention of the lamp, Francis Jehl. [26]
Thomas Edison died At 9 P.M. On Oct. 18th, 1931 in New Jersey. He was 84 years of age. Shortly before passing away, he awoke from a coma and quietly whispered to his very religious and faithful wife Mina, who had been keeping a vigil all night by his side: "It is very beautiful over there..."
Henry Ford
Hi, still in the process of learning from great men that does not know nothing about school, I bring you this great man called HENRY FORD. He did not know much about education yet he was a mover & shaker of his generation. Ready to learn from him? Here you Go.
Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, was the first of William and Mary Ford's six children. He grew up on a prosperous family farm in what is today Dearborn, Michigan. Henry enjoyed a childhood typical of the rural nineteenth century, spending days in a one-room school and doing farm chores. At an early age, he showed an interest in mechanical things and a dislike for farm work.
In 1879, sixteen-year-old Ford left home for the nearby city of Detroit to work as an apprentice machinist, although he did occasionally return to help on the farm. He remained an apprentice for three years and then returned to Dearborn. During the next few years, Henry divided his time between operating or repairing steam engines, finding occasional work in a Detroit factory, and over-hauling his father's farm implements, as well as lending a reluctant hand with other farm work. Upon his marriage to Clara Bryant in 1888, Henry supported himself and his wife by running a sawmill.
THE ENGINEER
In 1891, Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. This event signified a conscious decision on Ford's part to dedicate his life to industrial pursuits. His promotion to Chief Engineer in 1893 gave him enough time and money to devote attention to his personal experiments on internal combustion engines.
These experiments culminated in 1896 with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle-the Quadricycle. The Quadricycle had four wire wheels that looked like heavy bicycle wheels, was steered with a tiller like a boat, and had only two forward speeds with no reverse.
Although Ford was not the first to build a self-propelled vehicle with a gasoline engine, he was, however, one of several automotive pioneers who helped this country become a nation of motorists.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
After two unsuccessful attempts to establish a company to manufacture automobiles, the Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903 with Henry Ford as vice-president and chief engineer. The infant company produced only a few cars a day at the Ford factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit. Groups of two or three men worked on each car from components made to order by other companies.
Henry Ford realized his dream of producing an automobile that was reasonably priced, reliable, and efficient with the introduction of the Model T in 1908. This vehicle initiated a new era in personal transportation. It was easy to operate, maintain, and handle on rough roads, immediately becoming a huge success.
By 1918, half of all cars in America were Model Ts. To meet the growing demand for the Model T, the company opened a large factory at Highland Park, Michigan, in 1910. Here, Henry Ford combined precision manufacturing, standardized and interchangeable parts, a division of labor, and, in 1913, a continuous moving assembly line. Workers remained in place, adding one component to each automobile as it moved past them on the line. Delivery of parts by conveyor belt to the workers was carefully timed to keep the assembly line moving smoothly and efficiently. The introduction of the moving assembly line revolutionized automobile production by significantly reducing assembly time per vehicle, thus lowering costs. Ford's production of Model Ts made his company the largest automobile manufacturer in the world.
The company began construction of the world's largest industrial complex along the banks of the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan, during the late 1910s and early 1920s. The massive Rouge Plant included all the elements needed for automobile production: a steel mill, glass factory, and automobile assembly line. Iron ore and coal were brought in on Great Lakes steamers and by railroad, and were used to produce both iron and steel. Rolling mills, forges, and assembly shops transformed the steel into springs, axles, and car bodies. Foundries converted iron into engine blocks and cylinder heads that were assembled with other components into engines. By September 1927, all steps in the manufacturing process from refining raw materials to final assembly of the automobile took place at the vast Rouge Plant, characterizing Henry Ford's idea of mass production
HIS CHILDHOOD
Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, was the first of William and Mary Ford's six children. He grew up on a prosperous family farm in what is today Dearborn, Michigan. Henry enjoyed a childhood typical of the rural nineteenth century, spending days in a one-room school and doing farm chores. At an early age, he showed an interest in mechanical things and a dislike for farm work.
In 1879, sixteen-year-old Ford left home for the nearby city of Detroit to work as an apprentice machinist, although he did occasionally return to help on the farm. He remained an apprentice for three years and then returned to Dearborn. During the next few years, Henry divided his time between operating or repairing steam engines, finding occasional work in a Detroit factory, and over-hauling his father's farm implements, as well as lending a reluctant hand with other farm work. Upon his marriage to Clara Bryant in 1888, Henry supported himself and his wife by running a sawmill.
THE ENGINEER
In 1891, Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. This event signified a conscious decision on Ford's part to dedicate his life to industrial pursuits. His promotion to Chief Engineer in 1893 gave him enough time and money to devote attention to his personal experiments on internal combustion engines.
These experiments culminated in 1896 with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle-the Quadricycle. The Quadricycle had four wire wheels that looked like heavy bicycle wheels, was steered with a tiller like a boat, and had only two forward speeds with no reverse.
Although Ford was not the first to build a self-propelled vehicle with a gasoline engine, he was, however, one of several automotive pioneers who helped this country become a nation of motorists.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
After two unsuccessful attempts to establish a company to manufacture automobiles, the Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903 with Henry Ford as vice-president and chief engineer. The infant company produced only a few cars a day at the Ford factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit. Groups of two or three men worked on each car from components made to order by other companies.
Henry Ford realized his dream of producing an automobile that was reasonably priced, reliable, and efficient with the introduction of the Model T in 1908. This vehicle initiated a new era in personal transportation. It was easy to operate, maintain, and handle on rough roads, immediately becoming a huge success.
By 1918, half of all cars in America were Model Ts. To meet the growing demand for the Model T, the company opened a large factory at Highland Park, Michigan, in 1910. Here, Henry Ford combined precision manufacturing, standardized and interchangeable parts, a division of labor, and, in 1913, a continuous moving assembly line. Workers remained in place, adding one component to each automobile as it moved past them on the line. Delivery of parts by conveyor belt to the workers was carefully timed to keep the assembly line moving smoothly and efficiently. The introduction of the moving assembly line revolutionized automobile production by significantly reducing assembly time per vehicle, thus lowering costs. Ford's production of Model Ts made his company the largest automobile manufacturer in the world.
The company began construction of the world's largest industrial complex along the banks of the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan, during the late 1910s and early 1920s. The massive Rouge Plant included all the elements needed for automobile production: a steel mill, glass factory, and automobile assembly line. Iron ore and coal were brought in on Great Lakes steamers and by railroad, and were used to produce both iron and steel. Rolling mills, forges, and assembly shops transformed the steel into springs, axles, and car bodies. Foundries converted iron into engine blocks and cylinder heads that were assembled with other components into engines. By September 1927, all steps in the manufacturing process from refining raw materials to final assembly of the automobile took place at the vast Rouge Plant, characterizing Henry Ford's idea of mass production
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Robert Kiyosaki
Friends, today we are going to be learning from the life history of Robert T. Kiyosaki. He is the author of rich dad poor dad , cash flow quadrant.He is an investor that retired at the age of 47 . In the second paragraph He said something about School and Money.Learn from him
Born into a prominent family of educators, Robert Kiyosaki has risen to world prominence as an investor, businessman, and author. First residing in Hawaii, this fourth-generation Japanese-American received his college education in New York. Post-graduation, he joined the Marines, served in Vietnam and experienced a harrowing trial by fire as a helicopter gunship pilot during his tour there. After a successful post-war experience in business, Robert founded an international education company that teaches business and investing
His first maxim is that: "The main reason people struggle financially is because they spent years in school but learned nothing about money. They never make money work for them." With insights like these, Kiyosaki was able to retire at the age of 47 and write his most famous work "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". Afterward he followed up with many other titles under the Rich Dad banner. It is with this still ongoing series of books that Kiyosaki hopes to deliver a strong message on how everyone can improve their financial lives. The message is simple: "With every dollar in your hand, you have the power to choose to be rich, poor or middle class."
LearnOutLoud.com has assembled every book in the Rich Dad series available on audio. It is our hope that you too can empower yourself financially through the teaching of Robert Kiyosaki.
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