Lesson 1 WELCOME TO OUR NEW PROJECT!

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 Top 6 inventions
Please reproduce in your copybook (or print) the following table and complete it.
Name Invention
Edward Jenner Edward Jenner invented
the vaccine for smallpox, a
sickness that caused an
outbreak in Europe.
Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell is
best known to have
invented the first
telephone, the
graphophone and the metal
detector
Thomas Edison The famous inventor
Thomas Edison invented
the incandescent light
bulb, the movie camera, or
the phonograph.
John Atanasoff et al. John Vincent Atanasoff
has invented the first
digital computer, called
Atanasoff-Berry
Computer.
Karl Benz Karl Benz is the inventor
Year Details
14 May Smallpox was a sickness that was successfully eradicated in 1979,
1796 thank to Edward’s vaccine. The infected would see their skin grow
many ugly buttons on them, known as pustules, but also a lot of fever.
The sickness was very lethal at the time.
Edward Jenner was a British man born May 17, 1749 and died January
26, 1823.
1876/ Alexander Graham Bell was born March 3, 1847 and died August 2,
1886/ 1922. He was British.
1881 The graphophone is an engine which was an improved version of the
phonograph. It was invented at the Volta Laboratory by Alexander
Graham Bell.
1879/ Thomas Edison was an American inventor born February 11, 1847 in
1892/ Milan (Ohio) and died October 18, 1931.
1877. He was actively competing with another great inventor, Nicolas Tesla.
1930s John Atanasoff is an American physicist but also inventor. He was
born October 4, 1903 and died June 15, 1995.
1885
 of cars. Karl Benz is a German inventor and engineer who designed the first
cars. He was born November 25, 1844 and died April 4, 1929, in
Ladenburg.

Guglielmo Marconi and John Guglielmo Marconi and 1901/ Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor who invented radio. He was
LOGIE Baird John Baird respectively 1926 born April 25, 1874 and died July 20, 1937.
invented radio and John Logie Baird, him, was born August 13, 1888 and died due to a
television. stroke the June 14, 1946.