1. Samnel Morse accomplished something that is rarely accomplished, he achieved fame and success in two widely differing areas.

Throughout his youth he studied art, and after grduating from Yale University he went to London. in London he was awarded the gold medal of the Adelphi Arts Society for a clay figure of Hercules, and his paintings The Dying Hercules and The Judgement of Jupiter were selected for exhibit by the Royal Academy. In addition to his artistic accomplishments. Morse is also well known for his work developing the telegraph and what is known as Morse Code. He first had the idea of trying to develop the telegraph in 1832, on board a ship returning to America from Europe. and on May 24, 1844, message in the dots and dashes of Morse Code was successfully transmitted.

2. Mount Rushmore is a well-known monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota Mount Rushmore was the project of the visionary sculptor John Gutzen de la Mothe Borglum. Borglum was granted a commission by the federal government to create the sculpture on Mount Rushmore. He optimistically asserted that the project would be completed within five years. in fact Mount Rushmore was not completed within the five years predicted by Borglum, although it was almost finished Borglum died. His son, Lincoln Borglum, who had worked with his father throughout the project, completed the monument within eight months of his father's death.

3. Carbon dating can be used to estimate the age of any organic natural material, it has been used succesfully in archeology to determine the age of ancient artifact or fossil as well as in a variety of other fields. The principle underlying the use of carbon dating is that carbon is a part of all living things on earth. Since a radioactive substance such as carbon 14 has a known half life the amount of carbon 14 remaining in an object can be used to date that object. When objects are old, much of the carbon 14 has already decayed into nitrogent 14 and the minuscule amount that is left does not provide a reliable measurement of age. In the case of older objects other age dating methods are available, methods which use radioactive atoms with longer half lives carbon has.

Penanggalan karbon dapat digunakan untuk memperkirakan umur dari setiap bahan alami organik, yang telah sukes digunakan dalam arkeologi untuk menentukan umur dari artefak kuno atau fosil serta dalam bidang lainnya. Karbon 14 memiliki setengah hidup dan setelah mencapai setengah hidupnya karbon 14 akan meluruh menjadi nitrogen 14. Jika misalnya jumlah carbon 14 setara dengan jumlah nitrogen 14 ini menunjukkan bahwa sekitar setengah dari karbon 14 telah membusuk menjadi nitrogen.

Penanggalan karbon tidak dapat digunakan efektif pada objek yang lebih tua dari 80.000 tahun. Ketika benda sudah tua, sebagian besar karbon 14 telah membusuk menjadi nitrogent 14 dan jumlah sangat kecil yang tersisa tidak menyediakan pengukuran yang dapat diandalkan usia. Dalam kasus benda tua usia kencan metode lain yang tersedia, metode yang menggunakan atom radioaktif dengan panjang setengah hidup karbon memiliki.