Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Impacting the world

Impacting the World

By Nicholas

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”-Thomas Edison.
 Thomas Edison, Louis Braille, and Ben Franklin all changed the world with their hard work.
Ben Franklin was a remarkable individual who made life better in the American colonies. He is an important part of American history because he helped write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Successfully, Franklin established the first library, hospital, fire department, and college in the colonies. He was America’s first great inventor. Franklin created a stove that produced 2 times the heat with less wood. He also cleverly invented the lightning rod and the bifocals. He wanted no money. He wanted no patents. He wanted his ideas copied. Ben Franklin worked to make life better in the American colonies.
Louis Braille was a person who greatly increased a blind person’s ability by inventing an ingenious way to read. He was blinded when he was three because he gouged his eye and it became infected. When he was young he wanted to read as bad as a moth wants light. Desperately, he tried many ways, and then he heard of a code used by the French army. He created a code of dots. Sadly, his school did not accept his system, but he was not discouraged.  He published his code in 1929! So, today the blind read because of the Braille system.  
Thomas Edison was a smart man who changed the world. He was a genius because he patented over 1,093 inventions. Notably, he invented the movie camera and the typewriter. His favorite was the phonograph. He had 10,000 fails with the battery, but surprisingly he continued! He was smart. He worked hard. He never gave up. Thomas Edison changed people’s lives.
As these great men changed the world huge differences were felt. All these men impacted the daily lives of everyone.

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