Originally posted by pip-foot
Chris Weasley, slytherinElectricity is extreamly important to the daily lives of muggles. They use it for nearly everything they do. It gives them light, warmth, entertainment, and protection. They would be very lost with out it. Each event of their day, most likely requires electricity in some way. It powers their cars and heat their stoves. It is essential in the survival of muggles.
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Originally posted by Aesma
Another curled parchment, just like the rest, though this one had really nothing wrong with it. Good penmanship. Well that's what he thought, his lovely new quill did define his letters more.Electricity
This source of energy, which is but mere excited electrons moving through a certain medium, usually a wire of the metallic sort since their compact molecular structure easily enables them to conduct electricity. This invention was not really invented but just tapped from nature since lightning are natural forms of electricity with its electrons traveling across the skies. Perhaps this is one of the closest ways Muggles can use magic because they are merely changing one form of energy to another, like the kinetic energy used in dams create electricity. This is supported by Albert Einstein, a great muggle mind, who supports the law of conservation of energy with the equation energy equals mass times acceleration squared. It means that energy can never be destroyed, it just changes into something else. Electricity are used in various ways, and is now a very important part of Muggle society since it is used to run most of the large cities.
Ocean Oliver, Ravenclaw
PS its not a very shocking revelation : )
Six points
Muggles use Cars, the most commom, is a four wheeled vehicle who feeds on gas, it's very quick indeed.
Planes is a common but expencive way for muggles to travel, it does have wheels but instead of going on roads they fly.
Train, not much used anymore, the trains can only go where it's trail lead.
Ships are used on water for sailing, very slow, muggles prefer to travel by plane instead of Ships, but in older ages it was the principal way to travel to foreign lands.
Laura Weasley
ravenclaw
laura walked in and turned in her assignment. she didn't particularly like muggle studies, but she found muggles funny, and thought it was amazing that they got along with out magic. she had grown up in a wizarding family, and didn't know much about muggles. but, her grandfather was in love with them, and had told her to take the class because he thought muggles were fasinating.
CArs: cars are the most common way of transportation for muggles, they have four wheels and come in many different sizes, shapes, and colors.
trucks: trucks are like big cars. they have a driving compartment, and then they have a large compartment used for carrying goods and things that were being shipped.
Airplanes: airplanes are vehicles that go through the air, but are very expensive, so muggles don't use them very much, except the rich ones
Boats: boats come in many different varietys and are a vehicle that travels throught the water. some boats are even so large they have everything that a small town would have, from reasturants to baber shops!
chris weasley
slytherin
chris found muggles boring, but his grandpa made him take the class. It was rare that he had actually done his homework, since he didn't bother learning about muggles. all eh know was that they were stupid and boring. Luckily though, laura was interested in them and told him enough to scribble down the assignment
motercylce: a vehicle with two wheels that's is like a bike that can go very fast
CAr: a four wheeled vehicle that is very common among muggles
plane: a muggle vehicle that goes in teh sky and travels very quickly
boat: a muggle vehicle that goes over the water and doesnt sink
{Kiara, Slytherin, 6th}
Muggles have a lot of ways for transportion.
They use cars, bikes, trains, planes
Cars are suqare bouilding things made of metall. they can drive around on four wheels and have a battery. the most muggles use this way.
bikes are smaller things, made of metall, too and the muggles drive them themselves on two wheels. the have to threat the pedals to drive forwards.
trains are big and lot of muggles can sit in one of it. it moves towards really fast but it have to drive on iron bands (dunno, is that right, looked it up...). the often drives with electrity, too.
planes are big birds which can fly. made of an iron, and lot of muggles can go in. they have to start and land in an airport and needs a lot of time to start. very fascinating!
Escalaltors/Escapators
Escapators are a form of transport currently being researched by Aurthur Weasley, head of department in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts in the Ministry of Magic. They are commonly used in the underground, and are called Escalators. (Mr Weasley has not fully researched them) I have used them a few times, on walks about London. They are like a normal staircase, except the steps move up, or down, depending on if you are on an up or down escalator.
The Underground
A form of train that travels underground, usually in cities. to get down to the train, Escapators are often employed. The tracks are run through with 'electricity' and people sometimes die by falling on them.
Muggle's transport ways and their history
by Joshua Granger, 3rd year, Gryffindor.
1.driving - by "automobiles" or "cars"
The most used way to move faster for muggles is the car, also known as automobile.
The car moves because petrol or fuel gets burned in a cylinder. The small explosion's push presses a piston around a thread, so that the piston rotates around the thread.
The circular movement gets transferred on an axis, so that wheels are moving.
This was a great invention that was firstly built into a carriage by Karl Friedrich Benz in 1895.
The "motorized carriage" was developed up to the automobile very quickly. After fifty years more than 70% of the european and american population had an own car.
2.flying - by "aircrafts" or "airplanes"
Because muggles cant use a flying broomstick, they had to invent their own "aircraft". In the 19th century AD the first flying inventions appeared. But they were only gliders, and couldnt fly autonomous. The "pilots" had to jump down a hill.
In 1903, the first motorized airplanes got published. The Wright brothers were the first to fly by motorized plane - a few metres. But the advance in "aeronautics" was unstoppable. After thirty years, the best airplanes flew over the whole atlantic ocean.
3.sea voyage - by "ship" or "boat"
Boats are not to describe - not only muggles are using them. Even to Hogwarts, the first year students come by boat. But even here - at shipping - the motorization influented.
In the 19th century the first "steamships" or "steamers" appeared. They were wery effective and didn't take as much manual labour as using normal boats (for muggles). But even for steamships it was a long travel from europe to america, they needed 8 to 12 days to cross the ocean.
Steamers were used for a long time, for about 100 years.
They were replaced by motor boats, but this was a long way, because steamers had much power and until motors were as strong, they had to be advanced for at least fifty years - steamships had a power of four to seven hundred horses.
4."astronautics"
"Astronautics" is an especial section of "aeronautics", while here a specialtechnology called "rocket" is used. Rockets don't need air to fly, because they have fuel and oxygen cells.
When a rocket is launched, it presses oxygen and fuel out and inflames the mixture. It is a very powerful technology, and with this the muggles left our planet. They even landed on moon. Wernher von Braun invented most of it. But I don't know enough about this technology section, and so I will end my article.
[Joshua Granger; Gryffindor]
Edward handed in his Muggle Studies homework, happy he had done a good job. Muggle Studies was by far his favourite subject - he hated it when people called it the soft option.
Cars are usually the favoured mode of Muggle transportation. The first was invented by Henry. T. Ford, an American Muggle.
In 1903 by Henry Ford and 11 associate investors founded an American automotive corporation. In 1919 the company was reincorporated, with Ford, his wife, Clara, and his son, Edsel, acquiring full ownership; they, their heirs, and the Ford Foundation (formed 1936) were sole stockholders until January 1956, when public sale of the common stock was first offered. The company today is chiefly engaged in the manufacture, assembly, and sale of passenger cars (Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, and Continental), trucks, tractors, and related parts and accessories and is also engaged in financial services. Headquarters are in Dearborn, Mich.
Henry Ford built his first experimental car in a workshop behind his home in Detroit in 1896. After formation of the Ford Motor Company, the first Ford car was assembled at the Mack Avenue Plant in July 1903. Five years later, in 1908, the highly successful Model T was introduced. Demand for this car was so great that Ford developed new mass-production methods in order to manufacture it in sufficient quantities; in 1911 he established the industry's first branch assembly plant (in Kansas City, Mo.); in 1913 he introduced the world's first moving assembly line for cars; and in 1914, to further improve labour productivity, he introduced the $5 daily wage for an 8-hour day (replacing $2.34 for a 9-hour day).
By mid-1914 there were more than 500,000 Model T's on the roads of the world; by 1923 the company was producing more than half of America's automotive vehicles and by the end of the 1920s had more than 20 assembly plants overseas in Europe, Latin America, Canada, Asia, South Africa, and Australia. The Ford had become the world's most familiar make of car. In 1927 the last Model T and the first new Model A were produced, followed in 1932 by the first Ford V-8. In 1922 Ford had acquired the Lincoln Motor Company (founded 1917), which would produce Ford's luxury Lincolns and Continentals. In 1938 Ford introduced the first Mercury, a car in the medium-priced range. Ford's only other independent make, the Edsel, was a financial failure and lasted but three years, 1957-59.
As early as 1906 Henry Ford had acquired 58.5 percent of the company's stock; and, when the other stockholders balked at the idea of building the giant (and expensive) River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Mich., he bought them out, and his son Edsel Ford (1893-1943) became president (1919). On Edsel's death in 1943, Henry Ford returned to the presidency, but in 1945 he turned it over to his grandson, Henry Ford II, who reorganized the company's tangled system of financial management and reinvigorated its corporate culture by hiring talented younger managers. Henry Ford II remained chairman of the board and chief executive officer and head of the company until 1979.
In the 1950s and '60s the Ford Motor Company began limited diversification, but by the 1990s it had refocused attention on its automotive concerns and its growing financial services. In 1989-90 Ford acquired Jaguar, a British manufacturer of luxury cars.
Bicycles are chosen by Muggles who are concerned for the environment. They are constructed of two wheels, several metal poles, two 'pedals' and a chain of metal knobs called 'gears'. There is a padded seat atop the bicycle, upon which the Muggle sits. They place there feet on the pedals and make circular motions and the bicycle moves away.
Learning to ride a bicycle (also known as a bike) is a long process, usually learned when the Muggle is between the ages of four and eight. There first bicycle has three wheels, and is theefore known as a TRIcycle. When they have mastered this, they move onto a bicycle with two smaller wheels attached to the side of the back wheel. However, it is not called a quadricycle. The two smaller wheels are known as stabilisers (STAY - BI - LYSERS). when a Muggle is considered proficient by its parent, the stabilisers are removed, and they are permitted to cycle by themselves.
Trains are the most unreliable of Muggle transport. They are dirty, dark and very slow. They are usually between cities in the same country, but there are two systems which are not.
One is known as The Underground, which is a network of train tunnels underneath the city of London.
The other is known as the Channel Tunnel. As a foot passenger, you may join the train at Waterloo and travel to Paris. In a car (see above) you may join the train at Folkestone, and depart at Calais.
Another, more unusual form of Muggle transportation, is SLEDGES. They are mostly used in cold countries, and can only be used on snow. Their use has decreased in recent years, and are now only used by Muggle children or for ornamental or traditional purposes.
~Edward Cooper, Hufflepuff
An extensive Description of all around the Automobile
By George Chaucer
1. Invention of the Automobile
The idea of the automobile, the car, was invented in 1460 already, by inventing the steam machine. It was a heavy machine that started the industrial revolution from Yorkshire.
The idea was given, the first "cars" were wind powereds. After 400 years, the break through came through Nikolaus August Otto's gas motor. It was burning a gas-air mixture in a cylinder. Through this, there was a motor small enough to fit onto a carriage.
Karl Benz's Motor Carriage was the first pre-version of the automobile. It was developed by himself, and after Gottlieb Daimler came to him, they build the first real automobile.
2.Advance of the Automobile
It was a very fast advance. After twenty years the cars got from 16 kilomters per hour to 25-30 kph. After another ten years, the coachwork was already made of tin or steel (today fiberglass or carbonfiber). In 1950, around 70% of the americans and europeans had an own car. The car got a real fashion. The trend went from rounded to angulary, then a bit back to rounded, back to angrulary and now - half-rounded.
Here are some images of the trend of the car:
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1990
3.Models, makes and competition
The "makes", the factories of the cars. Several people founded automobile building factories. Only a few of them could succeed and do still exist. There are low-price cars like The Volkswagen, Chevrolet, Ford etc; then special models, like Corvette, Viper and so on; Luxury Cars like RollsRoyce, Mercedes-Benz (a bit); and there are sports makes (very expensive) like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti (mostly Italian).
They build their own models.
4.Electronic in cars
At first, the car was just equipped with a pedal for acceleration and brakes and the sttering wheel; But the car got equipped with a radio (hearing musics), a heating, special lightened gauges (to view speed, fuel level etc.) and sometimes with electronic adjustable seats.
George Chaucer; Gryffindor
Sonia Hubert, Fifth Year Ravenclaw
A fundamental entity of nature consisting of negative and positive kinds, observable in the attractions and repulsions of bodies electrified by friction and in natural phenomena (as lightning or the aurora borealis), and usually utilized in the form of electric currents. Muggles use to power computers, television, to heat their homes, and to power televisions.
