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:

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Explanation:

Active or Passive 2. The kids rode the bikes.

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

The children all scored well on the spelling.

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What is the best thing you can do to prepare before giving a speech to a large audience?

a. Memorize every word of your script.
b. Get feedback from someone you trust.
c. Ask your audience what they want to know.
d. Practice using hand gestures.

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OTFD is an acronym that means
A: open, thoughtful, funny, dainty
B: observation, thoughts, feelings, desire
C: opinionated, trustworthy, free-thinking, diligent
D: occupation, triumph, fears, deeds

50 POINTS What social constructs of love and gender from the Renaissance do we still have today? Your response should be a minimum of five sentences.

Read the following passage from "Every Man a King":
"Why, ladies and gentleman, let us say that all of these labor-saving devices reduce hours down to where you do not have to work but four hours a day; that is enough for these people, and then praise be the name of the Lord, if it gets that good. Let it be good and not a curse, and then we will have five hours a day and five days a week, or even less than that, and we might give a man a whole month off during a year, or give him two months; and we might do what other countries have seen fit to do, and what I did in Louisiana, by having schools by which adults could go back and learn the things that have been discovered since they went to school."

Which of these best describes the diction used in this passage?

A. Passionate and dry
B. Unreasonable and frustrated
C. Angry and imprecise
D. Practical and hopeful

“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.

Which detail from the excerpt best characterizes Hussain as a cruel man?

In the island of the blue dolphins book chapter 7 why did Karana believe Ramo was on the ship?

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What is the best definition for a paragraph's topic sentence? a sentence that begins the paragraph a sentence that helps the reader to organize her thoughts a sentence that tells the reader what will be discussed a sentence that is the first sentence of the paragraph​

Explain the history of the holiday (hanukkah). How did
it get started? (2-3 sentences)

Active or Passile 7. The boy sat on the big wooden chair.
Active or Passive 8. The kitten licked the bowl clean.
Active or Passive 9. The box was opened by Annie.
Active or Passive 10. The waitress dropped the plate.

What is the prepositional phrase in the sentence.
Daisy enjoys working in the kitchen.

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read the poem:
Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete,
And come to the front door mother, here’s a letter from thy
dear son.

Lo, ’tis autumn,
Lo, where the trees, deeper green, yellower and redder,
Cool and sweeten Ohio’s villages, with leaves fluttering in the
moderate wind,
Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the
trellis’d vines,
(Smell you the smell of the grapes on the vines?
Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)

Above all, lo, the sky so calm, so transparent after the rain, and with
wondrous clouds,
Below too, all calm, all vital and beautiful, and the farm
prospers well.

Down in the fields all prospers well,
But now from the fields come father, come at the daughter’s call,
And come to the entry mother, to the front door come right away.

Fast as she can she hurries, something ominous, her steps trembling,
She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor adjust her cap.

Open the envelope quickly,
O this is not our son’s writing, yet his name is sign’d,
O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken
mother’s soul!

All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the
main words only,
Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry
skirmish, taken to hospital,
At present low, but will soon be better.

Ah now the single figure to me,
Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all its cities and
farms,
Sickly white in the face and dull in the head, very faint,
By the jamb of a door leans.

Grieve not so, dear mother, (the just-grown daughter speaks
through her sobs,
The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay’d,)
See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete will soon be better.

Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor maybe needs to be
better, that brave and simple soul,)
While they stand at home at the door he is dead already,
The only son is dead.

But the mother needs to be better,
She with thin form presently drest in black,
By day her meals untouch’d, then at night fitfully sleeping,
often waking,
In the midnight waking, weeping, longing with one deep
longing,
O that she might withdraw unnoticed, silent from life escape
and withdraw,
To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.
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How does the language of the poem evoke a sense of a bygone time and place, specifically nineteenth century America?


The poem's references to places and people are ones that existed in that period, but which do not exist today.

The poem's depiction of the mother's sadness indicates a frailty or weakness that was commonly assigned to women in this period.

The poem's explanations of the family's reaction suggest an ignorance or an innocence that people today would not exhibit.

The poem's descriptions of the farm focus on natural elements, but make no mention of man-made tools or equipment.

To Kill a mocking Bird
“Discuss how Harper Lee needs chiaroscuro - associated with two distinct types of crowds in Chapters 15 and 16 - to develop and affirm lessons that the adult narrator Scout now understands.”

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Write a letter to your parents

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The words and actions of Lemon Brown in "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" makes him seem like?
O Greg's teacher.
O a real person.
O Greg's father.
O a mythical character.

write a summary for the article “The Censors”

Identify the P.A.G.A. used to start the sentence. "Twenty-one years of it." Group of answer choices
Adjective
Gerund
Prepositional Phrase
Adverb

Read this excerpt from a poem. The dock was far from view The hour of night was near Unbeknown to the laboring crew Cruel darkness crept o'er the stern. Which line contains personification? 0 The dock was far from view 0 The hour of night was near o Unbeknown to the laboring crew O Cruel darkness crept o'er the stern​

name of a small place/ area.
Now fill in the blanks with 'in', 'on' and 'at'.
Sarathchandra and Keerthana are brother and sister. Sarathchandra was born
25° April
2000. Keerthana was born
December 2, 2001. They are
with their parents. They live Kondamudusupalem, a small village Prakasam
District. They play games
school. It is usually very hot
May
their uncle's
Hyderabad
their village. So they spend their summer
High Court Colony
house, Mr. Srisailam is their uncle. He resides
Hyderabad with his wife, Jagadeeswari and his daughter, Vishnu Priya.
sires
29
P. Government​

Erik Killmonger walked with Jackson to the
pumpkin patch because he wanted to start
decorating for Halloween.

Clear

Vague

c
Read the following quote: "So how did we know if we were winning or not? And if we weren't winning anything, what was the dying for?" Which of the following themes
from the novel is represented in this quote?
gender
Ocrace
confusion
sports

Which sentence would most likely be found in a cause-and-effect text?
O The US quarter is a popular coin that comes in many varieties.
O By saving money over time, kids can afford big purchases.
O Coin collecting is a popular hobby for people of all ages.
O The Lincoln penny was the first example of a presidential coin.