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how many crewmates were there on the
Apollo 11 if you know please raise your
hand please raise your hand if you can
tell me the names of all the crewmates
yeah most of you would probably have
been able to tell me something about
neil armstrong or buzz sorry not this
bus this bus right here Buzz Aldrin but
very few would have been able to tell me
something about Michael Collins the
third person on the Apollo 11 but before
I'll talk about Michael Collins I'm
going to give you a brief sneak peak
later I'll talk about Elisha gray about
John Hall Cooke about Arthur Brown and
about John Newlands but I I don't judge
you for not knowing these I didn't
either and so short ago but now I'll get
right into into Michael Collins tale
Michael Collins was an Italian boy born
on the 31st of October of nineteen
hundred and thirty who dreamed about
going to space he was inspired to go to
space by John Glenn an American
politician and the first American ever
tour with the earth after joining NASA
at age 33 he was part of the Gemini 10
mission before being assigned as an
astronaut to the Apollo 11 project at
age 39 the Apollo 11 mission which
wasn't even completely sure to come back
to earth was the mission with the
objective of being the first to fly
astronauts to the moon after reaching
the orbit of the moon Michael Collins
was the only one left behind inside of
the Columbia module the main part of the
spaceship while Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin landed on the moon
he's stayed inside of the module alone
orbiting the moon for 27 hours and 51
minutes all three of them made it back
to earth were were Neil Armstrong and
Buzz Aldrin got much recognition for
actually landing on the moon but Michael
Collins just got a little bit of moment
a naeun attention for not actually
landing on the moon now obviously you've
noticed this in your face behind me this
is Alicia Grey who unlike Michael
Collins wasn't forgotten he was never
even known even though he was the
inventor of the modern music synthesizer
and of 70 and of over 70 other devices -
which held patents this man who was born
in the year of 1835 and died in the year
of 1900 and one was an electrical
engineer and even though he invented the
modern music synthesizer that's not what
it should have been famous for one of
his biggest developments was the
prototype - a telephone - which he lost
rights when grayham ball handed in a
patent request upon his design almost
two years after he had initially
designed it therefore if Alicia gray had
handed in a patent request upon his
design just a little bit earlier we
could now be using the greyish
communication box to talk to people all
over the world we might not even have
cellphones
the the next two people I'm going to
talk about are I like Elisha gray they
they didn't receive much credit for an
enormous achievement the achievement by
these two British gentlemen John Alcock
and Arthur Brown wasn't the creation of
something that changed Society forever
their achievement was rather symbolic
both of them who were born at the end of
the 19th century and came in contact
with aviation before the First World War
John Alcock was a competitor in flying
contests and Arthur Brown found his
interest in aviation after getting a
degree in engineering they joined forces
to compete in the grant 1918 Daily Mail
prize for aviation in which it was the
objective to achieve a nonstop flight
across the Atlantic Ocean in under 72
hours they won the prize in 1919 when
they flew from when they flew from
Newfoundland to Ireland in a modified
World War one Vicki Vickers Vimy for
Bombur for achieving this goal and
carrying a few postcards over to the
Atlantic Ocean they were of art awarded
the Daily Mail price of aviation along
with the prize of 10,000 pounds which
adjusted to 2019 would be worth about
five hundred and seventy thousand US
dollars they also got awarded the honour
of Knight commander of the most
excellent Order of the British Empire by
King George ii v a few years after being
awarded the-- that this title and these
prizes they were almost completely
unknown again they lost their fame
partly because of Charles Lindbergh who
in 1927 130 price this price was very
similar to the one won by John Alcock
and Arthur Brown it was awarded to the
first allied aviator or aviators that
would achieve a nonstop flight from New
York to Paris when Charles Lindbergh
landed on the 21st of May of 1927 in
Paris after a flight of
three and a half hours he was awarded
the prize of 10,000 u.s. dollars which
also adjusted to 2019 would be worth
about three hundred and sixty thousand
US dollars but this achievement was the
first ever solo transatlantic flight
which therefore took him to outshine all
cookin Brown the achievement by Alcock
and brown which was the first ever
transatlantic flight could be compared
to the first time you rode a bike
you probably didn't ride it alone
instantly or you fall from the bike or
you had someone pushing you or you had
little training wheels on on your bike
but the this first time you rode the
bike is an achievement smaller than
actually riding the bike alone but it is
an achievement I at least would consider
to be important anyways that's a close
up of John Wall cook that's one of
Arthur Brown and that's charts Lindbergh
that's who I'm going to talk about again
a similar thing about of that of getting
your credits tone happen during the
creation of the periodic table the
periodic table is arranged by the atomic
weight of the atoms which are then
grouped together taking into
consideration the characteristics of
those elements this grouping method is
called fill of the octaves it was
suggested by this man right here which
is called John Mullins he suggested this
in 99 in 1865 he loved the octaves
stated that if you groups if you
organize the elements taking into
consideration their atomic weight they
would have similar characteristics with
an interval of eight which would mean
that the first element would have
similar characteristics to the ninth the
second one would have similar
characteristics to the tenth and so on
this grouping method was implemented
into the periodic table
published by Dmitri Mendel
there see and and he the metal Mendeleev
earn much more recognition for for the
this law than did
Newlands Mendeleev used it to predict
the existence of the elements gallium
and germanium which weren't known at the
time along with their characteristics
the existence of the element germanium
had already been predicted by Newlands
using his law before but Newlands wasn't
able to state any characteristics of the
den theoretic element which therefore
didn't earn him any credit after all
these examples I it might have become
clear that this isn't your regular TED
talk convincing you of a great thing for
a great cause such as have done other
speeches today but all these examples I
gave you were from people that were
crucial to something that changed your
life but didn't actually earn any credit
for it and therefore as I'm sure you
you're right there with that I mean all
of you in the public will accomplish
something great in life being this
creating a cure to it's a super disease
or or building a rocket ship to fly to
another planet or simply putting a smile
on people's faces every day I would like
to ask y'all to always do your best to
change people's lives to better and to
be someone that people would like to
remember having that in mind I would
like to ask y'all to always remember in
my view all you have to do to have to be
successful in life while having fun is
to be creative to be innovative and to
be kind to people and mainly to chase
your dreams your ideas and your
objectives because if you give up on
those then you won't be able to
accomplish anything in life thank you
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