Sometime between 1700 and 1800 changes take place in Great Britain that later become termed 'revolutionary'. The reasons why these changes occur in Britain remain in discussion today as does the importance of some of the major inventions of that time. However, without question the chan...

Amelia Earhart and Sally Ride each achieved major goals in fields that were traditionally reserved for men. Amelia Earhart became the first woman in history to make a solo transcontinental flight in 1928 and Sally Ride became the first woman in space in 1983. After achieving these goals, they each...

Dennis Cullison Period, 5 April 27, 2004 History Mr. Peterson The Challenger Disaster There were many great and significant events that happened while the United States was under the rule of Ronald Reagan. One of the major events also had to do with the United States evolvement in going to...

Tuesday, January 28, 1986 is a day that will live on forever in infamy. This was the day that the Challenger, a NASA space shuttle, tragically exploded. The explosion left many people asking themselves, "What went wrong," and "What made the Challenger blow-up?" NASA conducted a ...

As the 1980's approached, the launch of a space shuttle was almost as routine as a trip on an airliner. Space travel had been successful on 24 missions. Most people thought the danger of space travel was nearly eliminated. On January 28, 1986, they were proven wrong. The orbital Challenger wa...

The Industrial Revolution was a period of extreme transition. It had a quite positive effect on the living and working conditions. People benefited mainly through the inventions of machines, which replaced hard labor, and also wages were increased which provided families with better households to li...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is a government agency which invents and implements aeronautical, space, and Earth science programs. NASA is currently led by an administrator, Daniel Goldin, who has done a good job leading NASA into the twenty- first century. In the early ...

It would be difficult to argue the fact that the events of the brief flight of the Challenger that took place on January 28, 1986 was not an "accident". By definition, an accident is "an unexpected, undesirable event". The violent loss of one human life was in this case, an &qu...

Airplanes, engine-driven vehicles that fly through the air, have evolved in less than a century into one of the most important inventions in history. Every day, airplanes commute people and goods great distances. Over the last 100 years, they have been developed and perfected from simple gliders to ...

Groom Lake, Dreamland, and Area 51 are all names describing different portions of a top-secret military base securely hidden in central Nevada. When the name "Area 51" is spoken, extraterrestrial life, atomic bombs, and stealthy aircraft are all things that come to mind. The real quest...

HOW IT ALL STARTED Southwest Airlines (SWA) begins in June 18, 1971, when SWA first operated a first airline consul between Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. Rollin King and Herb Kelleher are the founders of the company. The end of 1971 SWA immediately began to expand. In 1972 all Houston service ...

"Necessity is the mother of all invention", and so it was taught and learned throughout all of World War 2. During World War 2 weaponry had to be upgraded and revised to fit every situation. The engineers of the war had to constantly develop new and better weaponry. Much like the engin...

Japan is one of the world's leading economic powers when concentrating on its Gross Domestic Product of four point two trillion United States dollars. Its economy is only second to the United States in terms of production. However, Japan has not always contained a relatively strong economy. The Jap...

The notion that man could fly or someday would be able to achieve flight has long since been an idea of man for literally centuries. As early as 400 BC, a Greek scholar by the name of Archytas built a wooden pigeon that moved through the air. Approximately 100 years later the Chinese developed kite...

What is A Robot WHAT IS A ROBOT The term robot comes from the Czechoslovakian wordfor "forced labor," invented by Karel Capek. Karel Capek used robots in his plays and had them look and behave like people. Today, the word "robot" is harder to define because of new designs and technology. The third...

At various times in global history, revolution has often been the vehicle for political, economic, and social change. These changes can be seen in the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the ...Revolution. The years before the French Revolution, which started in 1789 AD wer...