Ford Although Henry Ford’s name is closely associated with the concept of mass production, he shou...
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The origin of Refrigerators By the mid-nineteenth century, the term “icebox” had entered the Ameri...
Telecommuting Telecommuting---substituting the computer for the trip to the job---has been hailed ...
Changing Roles of Public Education One of the most important social developments that helped to ma...
Botany Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge...
British Columbia British Columbia is the third largest Canadian provinces, both in area and popula...
Oil Refining An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil war. Crude oil, or petr...
Plankton Scattered through the seas of the world are billions of tons of small plants and animals ...
Raising Oysters In the oysters were raised in much the same way as dirt farmers raised tomatoes- b...
The Salinity of Ocean Waters If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only...
Topaz Topaz is a hard, transparent mineral. It is a compound of aluminum, silica, and fluorine. Ge...
Icebergs Icebergs are among nature’s most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never se...
Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Spreading The theory of plate tectonics describes the motions of the...
Coal-fired power plants The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 c...
American black bears American black bears appear in a variety of colors despite their name. In the...