For all of my pictures the cites are shown next to the picture.
I found my information on the following sites.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_Antonio_Meucci.htm
http://www.lifeinitaly.com/heroes-villans/antonio_meucci.asp
http://www.bobsoldphones.net/pages/essays/meucci/meucci.htm
http://science.jrank.org/pages/3574/Industrial-Revolution-Effects-Industrial-Revolution.html
I also looked at the wikipedia site to see what it had to say. I did not use any information it gave me all though most was similar to the other sites shown above. Here is its citation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci
About Me
- Jake
- Hey, My names Antonio Meucci. I was born in Florence, Italy. And I guess you could consider me famous I did invent the telephone but thats your decision. I worked during the industrial revolution. Yes I am old. I was born in 1808 and died in 1889. Somehow found a way to write this and in perfect english. I am just that good.
Hello! I am Edgar Allan Poe! And I see that we are from the same time era! I know that we are completely different people, me being a writer and an author and you inventing the telephone, but I feel that we might have some similarities also! We both introduced things that were very different in our periods. I took "Gothic Writing" to a new level, and you invented the telephone! We're one of a kind, Mr. Meucci!
ReplyDeleteEven though we have those similarities, we are extremely different people. I'm guessing that you didn't start off writing for a newspaper and writing short stories! And i didn't start off working in factories and what not! So, we are most definitely different there. It is apparent that we both worked very hard to get where we ended up.
I think that I am so much more different than what people were really doing during this time period. In the Industrialization era, people were working a lot. The cities were overly populated with people who were trying to get jobs. Heck, even kids were working in the factories! While all of that was going on, I was writing stories and working for newspapers and getting paid close to nothing just to do what I love, write.
The Industrialization era effected the way I worked completely. People were fighting for jobs, so jobs at newspapers and magazines were pretty much just absent of money. I never got paid very much. I won $100 in a contest for writing a short story once, but that still couldn't "pay the bills". It was a very busy era to live in because everyone wanted to work, so who's going to get the job, the writer or the factory worker? The factory worker, of course.
It's been extremely wonderful to talk with you, my good sir. Write back!
Sincerely,
Edgar Allan Poe