Take a good, hard look since everyone on here could have easily faced the gallows for signing this document.
If any of you are wondering, the Declaration had some legal purpose, but it was mainly just issued as a way of telling the British monarch to leave the soon-to-be-formed country alone. It more created guidelines, per say, which were then later enacted by the Constitution.
These freedoms are mainly declared in this section:
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. "
Please do not flame or try to demean this holiday for any reason, or branch this in to a off-topic political or religious debate of any kind, or be intentionally/unintentionally provocative with negativity, because that is not it's intended purpose. It is celebratory only.
(This is actually being posted about 15 minutes before 12:00 A.M. EST on July 3, 2008, if you are/were wondering.)
Einstein didn't invent the lightbulb. You're probably thinking of Edison - who also did not invent the lightbulb. A Canadian actually invented the first lightbulb, Edison just improved on the idea.
u all are wrong it was a brit, Humphry davy had the idea first. and Frederick de Moleyns, also from across the pond, got the first patent for an incandescent bulb
happy 4th...im not american tho..but i like fireworks
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Sir Joseph Swann of England and Thomas Edison both invented the first electric incandescent lamps during the 1870s.
Contrary to popular belief, Thomas Alva Edison did not "invent" the first lightbulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea. For example: two inventors that patented an incandescent lightbulb before Thomas Edison did were Henry Woodward and Matthew Evan. According to the National Research Council of Canada:
"Henry Woodward of Toronto, who along with Matthew Evans patented a light bulb in 1875. Unfortunately, the two entrepreneurs could not raise the financing to commercialize their invention. The enterprising American Thomas Edison, who had been working on the same idea, bought the rights to their patent. Capital was not a problem for Edison: he had the backing of a syndicate of industrial interests with $50,000 to invest - a sizable sum at the time. Using lower current, a small carbonized filament, and an improved vacuum inside the globe, Edison successfully demonstrated the light bulb in 1879 and, as they say, the rest is history."
In 1801 Sir Humphrey Davy demonstrated the incandescence of platinum strips heated in the open air by electricity; but the strips did not last long. Frederick de Moleyns of England was granted the first patent for an incandescent lamp in 1841; he used powdered charcoal heated between two platinum wires.
Hope you guys are having a good 4th. Pig out.. shoot a couple of fireworks.. Enjoy yourselves.
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Einstein didn't invent the lightbulb. You're probably thinking of Edison - who also did not invent the lightbulb. A Canadian actually invented the first lightbulb, Edison just improved on the idea.
It was a British patent that was bought by a Canadian inventor. Edison bought the patent for the light bulb after the Canadian inventor had made his improvements to the original British version and Edison later perfected it.
Anyways you Yankees, have a safe 4th of July.
Edit: Looks like someone beat me to the whole light bulb thing
In 1801 Sir Humphrey Davy demonstrated the incandescence of platinum strips heated in the open air by electricity; but the strips did not last long. Frederick de Moleyns of England was granted the first patent for an incandescent lamp in 1841; he used powdered charcoal heated between two platinum wires.
What I see there is lamp, not bulb. But I guess that's just getting into semantics now, isn't it.
Things invented in the U.S.A.:
- The sewing machine (Isaac Merritt Singer)
- The personal computer (source: http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/r823.htm)
- The artificial heart (Dr. Robert K. Jarvik)
- The telegraph (Samuel F. B. Morse)
- The sugar evaporation system (Norbet Rillieux)
- More than 450 products from peanuts (Geaorge Washington Carver)
- Bifocal glasses (Benjamin Franklin)
- Cotton gin (Eli Whitney)
- Refrigerator (we're the most obese nation in the world- who the hell did you think invented it?) (Oliver Evans)
- Coffee pot (Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford)
- Mechanical refrigerator (John Gorrie)
- Cylinder printing press (Richard M. Hoe)
- And many more...
July 4, 1776 was the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The signers were as follows:- Delaware: George Read, Caesar Rodney, and Thomas McKean.
- Pennsylvania: George Clymer, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, John Morton, Benjamin Rush, George Ross, James Smith, James Wilson, and George Taylor.
- Massachusetts: John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, and Elbridge Gerry.
- New Hampshire (yay for my birth state!): Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, and Matthew Thornton.
- Rhode Island (the smallest state to this day): Stephen Hopkins and William Ellery.
- New York: Lewis Morris, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, and William Floyd.
- Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton.
- Virginia : Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson, George Wythe, and Thomas Nelson, Jr.
- North Carolina: William Hooper, John Penn, and Joseph Hewes.
- South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Jr., and Thomas Heyward, Jr.
- New Jersey: Abraham Clark, John Hart, Francis Hopkinson, Richard Stockton, and John Witherspoon.
- Connecticut: Samuel Huntington, Roger Sherman, William Williams, and Oliver Wolcott.
- Maryland: Charles Carroll, Samuel Chase, Thomas Stone, and William Paca.
Take a good, hard look since everyone on here could have easily faced the gallows for signing this document.If any of you are wondering, the Declaration had some legal purpose, but it was mainly just issued as a way of telling the British monarch to leave the soon-to-be-formed country alone. It more created guidelines, per say, which were then later enacted by the Constitution.
These freedoms are mainly declared in this section:
(This is actually being posted about 15 minutes before 12:00 A.M. EST on July 3, 2008, if you are/were wondering.)
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yep i cant wait for tomorrow, we will mix 2 things that shouldnt be mixed, ill tell you one, artillery shells
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I'm so proud to be an American.
happy 4th...im not american tho..but i like fireworks
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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/388296/Frederick-de-Moleyns
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
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"I'm sure that in time, every bit of her will be gone and her death will be a mystery... even to me."-Secret Window
It was a British patent that was bought by a Canadian inventor. Edison bought the patent for the light bulb after the Canadian inventor had made his improvements to the original British version and Edison later perfected it.
Anyways you Yankees, have a safe 4th of July.
Edit: Looks like someone beat me to the whole light bulb thing
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What I see there is lamp, not bulb. But I guess that's just getting into semantics now, isn't it.
i went to atlanta today...long flight...and lit up some sparkles in the sky...then a bon fire in the middle of a football field
i smell like smoke...hope u guys are having fun!
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