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Inventors & Inventions Guide

This document provides information about inventors and inventions. It defines an invention as a device, method or process developed through study and experimentation. The earliest inventions are considered to be tools like the wheel, spear, knife and arrow, which were created to help with hunting, protection and transportation. Some of the most important later inventions listed include the cotton gin, automobile, telephone, electric light, printing press, steam engine, camera, computer, sewing machine and television. Famous inventors mentioned include Archimedes, Einstein, Da Vinci, Franklin, Edison, Gutenberg, Bell, Carver, Whitney, the Wright Brothers, Baird, Ford and Eastman. The document asks for opinions on the greatest

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Inventors & Inventions Guide

This document provides information about inventors and inventions. It defines an invention as a device, method or process developed through study and experimentation. The earliest inventions are considered to be tools like the wheel, spear, knife and arrow, which were created to help with hunting, protection and transportation. Some of the most important later inventions listed include the cotton gin, automobile, telephone, electric light, printing press, steam engine, camera, computer, sewing machine and television. Famous inventors mentioned include Archimedes, Einstein, Da Vinci, Franklin, Edison, Gutenberg, Bell, Carver, Whitney, the Wright Brothers, Baird, Ford and Eastman. The document asks for opinions on the greatest

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FACTS ABOUT INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS

1. An invention is defined as a device, method or process developed from study and


experimentation. It helps us save time, effort or allow us to do impossible things (ex:spaceship)
2. Many historians consider the wheel, the spear, the knife, and the arrow as the earliest
inventions. They were created because of the need to hunt , provide protection and
transportation.
3. Some of the most important inventions are considered to be the cotton gin, the automobile,
the telephone, the electric light, the printing press, the steam engine, the camera, the computer,
the sewing machine and the television.
4. Some of the most famous inventors are: Archimedes, Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci,
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Johannes Gutenberg, Alexander Graham Bell, George
Washington Carver, Eli Whitney, the Wright Brothers, John Baird,
Henry Ford, George Eastman, and Heinrich Hertz.

In your opinion, What is the greatest invention of all times?


MATCH FAMOUS INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS:

INVENTORS

INVENTIONS

1.THOMAS EDISON

COLOR TV _____

2. ALEXANDRE

PRINTING PRESS

GRAHAM BELL

_______

3. JOHANNES

BLUE JEANS

GUTENBERG
4. LEVI STRAUSS

______
POWERED

5. THE WRIGHT

AIRPLANE ______
PERSONAL

BROTHERS
6. JOHN BAIRD

COMPUTER _______
LIGHT BULB
_______

7. STEVE JOBS AND


STEVE WORNIAK

TELEPHONE ______

LEONARDO DA VINCI, 14521519), Italian artist, architect, engineer and scientist .


He can be considered the greatest inventor in history, yet he had very little effect on the
technology of his time. Da Vinci drew sketches and diagrams of his inventions, which he
preserved in his notebooks. He invented fire throwers and missiles, and made an early design
for a machine gun. Hundreds of inventions were sketched out in his notebooks tanks,
helicopters, bicycles, submarines, hang gliders, pulleys, cranes, bridges, and more.
Da Vinci's designs were spectacularly ahead of his time. If they had been built, they might have
revolutionized the history of technology, though many of them may have been impossible to
build with the tools available in the 15th and 16th centuries. In recent years, however, engineers
have begun to construct models of da Vinci's amazing machines and most of them actually work

BE INVENTIVE!
Make an advert for an invention:

Make the design for a new, useful,

everyday item. It can be cool and funny. Include these questions:


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What is it like? Describe its elements and draw it.

What is it for? Why is it useful? Explain its main purposes.

Who , Where or When is it for? ( People, places and time it can used for)

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