What does each word mean? How is each related to the topic of the reading?
Concept / pioneer / devise / astounding / accomplished / ignorance
A head of Their Time……………
On November 2, 1947, a crowd of onlookers at San Pedro harbor in Los Angeles witnessed aviation history. An enormous flying boat, nicknamed the Sruce Goose, sped a cross the bay and lifted 70 feet above the water. After just under a minute, it landed perfectly one mile down the bay. It was the first and last time the boat ever flew.
The original concept for construction of the Spruce Goose came from the need for more effective ways of transporting troops and materials from the U.S., needed to fight in World War II. Although the idea came from a man called Henry Kaiser, it was Howard Hughes, the legendary multi-millionaire, who actually developed the flying boat.
The most astounding thing about the Sruce Goose, in addition to its gigantic size, was its construction – it was made entirely of wood. Thought it has promise, in the end, the project failed for three main reasons: the cost of building the enormous machine, the complexity of working with wood, and Hughes’s perfectionist approach, which caused the entire projected to finish behind schedule. The Goose was put into storage and remained hidden from view until 1976, when it was put on display for the public. In 1993, the plane was dismantled and transported to Oregon, where it remains today. Although mistakes were made in the construction of the Spruce Goose, many of its design features have been incorporated into modern cargo planes. Like other pioneers in the field of transportation, Hughes was simply ahead of his time.
Centuries before Hughes was designing the Spruce goose, another pioneer in transportation design was sketching plans for different kinds of flying machines. Leonardo da Vinci, perhaps the most famous artist of the Renaissance period, planned flying devices with flapping wings controlled and steered by human pilots. His research focused on the complex anatomy of birds in flight, and he based his flying machines on this analogy. It took almost five hundred years for da Vinci’s sketches to become real. In June 200, a professional parachutist named Adrian Nicholas jumped out of a hot-air balloon over the Sought African countryside using a parachute made of wood and canvas based on one of da Vinci’s designs. Nicholas landed safely and da Vinci’s dream became reality. Leonardo da Vinci designed many other devices that are now used daily, including the helicopter and the underwater oxygen tank used by drivers.
The phrase ‘ahead of his time’ can be used to describe another inventor, Buckminster Fuller, who, like Hughes and da Vinci, was accomplished in many field, including engineering, mathematics, cosmology, and poetry. One of Fuller’s most famous designs was for the geodesic dome, which has been defined as the lightest, strongest, and most cost-effective structure ever devised. Over 300,000 geodesic domes are being used today as shelters, or to house delicate radar equipment and weather stations. A geodesic dome made of aluminum was used to house the Spruce Goose at Long Beach Harbor.
Fuller was one of the earliest pioneers of renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, and wave power, and he incorporated these into his designs. At the time of his research, he estimated that the total energy needs of humans could be met using natural sources of energy and claimed that ‘there is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.’
Pioneering inventors such as da Vinci, Hughes, and Fuller paved the way for many devices and apparatus used today. If many of their designs did not bright them commercial success in their lifetimes, it is simply because they were ahead of their time.
What does each word mean? How is each related to the topic of the reading? Concept / pioneer / devise / astounding / accomplished / ignoranceA head of Their Time……………On November 2, 1947, a crowd of onlookers at San Pedro harbor in Los Angeles witnessed aviation history. An enormous flying boat, nicknamed the Sruce Goose, sped a cross the bay and lifted 70 feet above the water. After just under a minute, it landed perfectly one mile down the bay. It was the first and last time the boat ever flew.The original concept for construction of the Spruce Goose came from the need for more effective ways of transporting troops and materials from the U.S., needed to fight in World War II. Although the idea came from a man called Henry Kaiser, it was Howard Hughes, the legendary multi-millionaire, who actually developed the flying boat.The most astounding thing about the Sruce Goose, in addition to its gigantic size, was its construction – it was made entirely of wood. Thought it has promise, in the end, the project failed for three main reasons: the cost of building the enormous machine, the complexity of working with wood, and Hughes’s perfectionist approach, which caused the entire projected to finish behind schedule. The Goose was put into storage and remained hidden from view until 1976, when it was put on display for the public. In 1993, the plane was dismantled and transported to Oregon, where it remains today. Although mistakes were made in the construction of the Spruce Goose, many of its design features have been incorporated into modern cargo planes. Like other pioneers in the field of transportation, Hughes was simply ahead of his time.Centuries before Hughes was designing the Spruce goose, another pioneer in transportation design was sketching plans for different kinds of flying machines. Leonardo da Vinci, perhaps the most famous artist of the Renaissance period, planned flying devices with flapping wings controlled and steered by human pilots. His research focused on the complex anatomy of birds in flight, and he based his flying machines on this analogy. It took almost five hundred years for da Vinci’s sketches to become real. In June 200, a professional parachutist named Adrian Nicholas jumped out of a hot-air balloon over the Sought African countryside using a parachute made of wood and canvas based on one of da Vinci’s designs. Nicholas landed safely and da Vinci’s dream became reality. Leonardo da Vinci designed many other devices that are now used daily, including the helicopter and the underwater oxygen tank used by drivers.The phrase ‘ahead of his time’ can be used to describe another inventor, Buckminster Fuller, who, like Hughes and da Vinci, was accomplished in many field, including engineering, mathematics, cosmology, and poetry. One of Fuller’s most famous designs was for the geodesic dome, which has been defined as the lightest, strongest, and most cost-effective structure ever devised. Over 300,000 geodesic domes are being used today as shelters, or to house delicate radar equipment and weather stations. A geodesic dome made of aluminum was used to house the Spruce Goose at Long Beach Harbor.Fuller was one of the earliest pioneers of renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, and wave power, and he incorporated these into his designs. At the time of his research, he estimated that the total energy needs of humans could be met using natural sources of energy and claimed that ‘there is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.’
Pioneering inventors such as da Vinci, Hughes, and Fuller paved the way for many devices and apparatus used today. If many of their designs did not bright them commercial success in their lifetimes, it is simply because they were ahead of their time.
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