Great inventions have been created when people have seen a problem and set about trying to solve it. They are also created to make life easier. Think about some great inventions:
* The first aeroplanes
* Electricity
* Early telephones
* Ways to make it over Niagara Falls alive (I'm serious there is a museum in Canada devoted to this).
* Early vehicles
* Clothing (think Antarctica)
* Sporting equipment
* Bicycles
* Bread making techniques
* Keeping time
Your task: Research one type of invention and its history. Write a paragraph about the invention, its inventor(s) and the way it has been developed through time. Add the paragraph to the blog. This is the link to the Collaborative Document. You can add pictures and more information here for your class mates to share. Happy thinking!
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ReplyDeleteThomas Edison was a great inventor he invented like The first great invention developed by Edison in Menlo Park was the tin foil phonograph.
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DeleteThe first phone Invented
ReplyDeleteAlexander Graham Bell invented the first phone. Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Grey had the idea in the 1870’s. That idea was to transmit speech so they called it the Telephone. The telephone was wire based. It was made so people could send messages on to each other.
The History Of Surfboards
ReplyDeleteSurfing was once an ancient Hawaiian sport and was a very spiritual tradition, the surfboard was made as long ago as 1777 in ancient Hawaii. The Surfboard has come a long way since the ‘Golden Days’. In the Golden Days the surfers rode a wooden long board with no fins in to the perfect days, but these days surfers ride fiberglass short and long boards with fiberglass fins that allow them to complete tricks that in the Golden Day were considered impossible into their Golden Days. These days people like Dylan Longbottom are creating marvelous surfboard, their shapes, size and patterns are amazing they are so different compared to the long wooden surfboards Hawaiians use to ride.
The first electronic calculator was created in the 1960s. Calculators are very useful when it comes down to numbers, without that very useful tool we’d be stuck on some of the hardest equation facts known to people. Our word’s growth would have taken so much longer to get where it is today without calculators. The idea of inventing a calculator was made by a young man named Blaise Pascal.
ReplyDeleteIn the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their respective designs to the patent office within hours of each other, Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone first. Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won.
ReplyDeleteElectricity travels at the speed of light. If you travelled as fast as electricity, you could go around the world 8 times in the time it takes to turn on a light switch. A spark of static electricity can measure up to three thousand volts. A bolt of lightning can measure up to three million volts and it lasts less than one second! Thomas Edison didn't invent the first light bulb but he did invent one that stayed lit for more than a few seconds. Thomas Edison invented almost everything needed for us to use electricity in our homes including switches and fuses. Ben Franklin did prove that lightning is a form of electricity.
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Invention of the telephone
ReplyDeleteThe invention of the telephone was done by two groups of people, these people where Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell. This was done in the year 1870, both men designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both of the men rushed their designs, Alexander patented his phone first. Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Alexander won.
THE HISTORY OF BEDS
ReplyDeleteTHE HISTORY OF BEDS
A bed is a piece of furniture you can use to sleep in. In many cultures and for many centuries the bed was the most important piece of furniture in a house. Beds were used in ancient Egypt as more than a place for sleeping, they were used as a place to eat meals and entertain socially.
The earliest beds were shallow chests. The first attempt at a soft basis of ropes stretched across a wooden framework.
The first water-filled beds were goatskins filled with water.
The Printing Press
ReplyDeleteThe printing press was the first one of many communications, made in 1041, movable clay type was the first printing press invented in the Western Europe by Johannes Gutenberg.
The printing presses were changing how information was collected, stored, retrieved, discovered, and promoted. It was the Scientific Revolution.
A printing press is a device for printing ink on to a medium sized paper or cloth. The device applies pressure to a print that rests on an inked surface made of moveable type, thereby transferring the ink.
Gutenberg was the first to convert the concept for printing uses. Gutenberg’s use of mechanical presses with other made printing process with a far greater output compared to manuscripts made by copyists.
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The Penny-Farthing
ReplyDeleteThe Penny-Farthing is named after the English coins the Penny which is the big wheel and the Farthing the small wheel and from the side it looks like the Penny is leading the farthing.
The first high bike was apparently built by Frenchman Eugene Meyer, his main idea was the desire to make a bike that was faster so it would be more exciting for young men. Gears where not yet invented yet so they increased the size of the front wheel. Around this time British mechanics and engineers came up with ways to make the Penny-Farthing less heavy for riding comfort, they made solid rubber tires and steel tubes.
Zorex Cream
ReplyDeleteZorex cream is good to help cold sores as I use it because it is alternative medicine supplements with vitamins. Also the information on the treatment including health benefits & side effects. Zorex Cream for cold sores products. This product may include Enhancing Immune Function, and Promoting Healing.
The History of a CD Player
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The first CD player was called a record player. To use a record player you need a record. Record’s are like big CD disc. You need to put the record on the record player and place the needle on the record.
Portable CD Players
Portable CD players were first invented in 1984. The company that invented the very first CD player was SONY.
Some Features for a Portable CD Players are:
Play/pause
Stop
Rewind
Fast forward
In Conclusion, still from this day we use CD Players.
The first inventor to make an airplane was Orvill and Wilbur Wright. They made this plane on December the 17th 1903. The plane flew at a smooth past and
ReplyDeleteDidn’t break down or crash. Wilbur Wright was the first person to create a plane that contained an engine. The craft soared to an altitude of 10 feet, traveled 120 feet, and landed 12 seconds after takeoff. Wilbur and Orvill Wright sent a telegram to their farther to let him know that the press that manned flight had taken place. That was the day that the plane had been born.
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Early Airplanes
ReplyDeleteAirplanes are a magnificent invention. They are a great and fast transport to use, but are risky. Early airplanes were unsuccessful, because firstly, people were trying to fly, and they wanted to glide though the sky like a bird. One of the first attempts was to attach feathers to your arms and jump of cliffs and try to fly, but this didn’t work. Then later on the first successful flight was in a hot air balloon and a few men invented this in 1783 and it was the first flying machine called a ‘hot air balloon’.
How it works
It works by firstly filling the balloon with hot air so it will rise. Heated air is lighter than cool air so this is how it rises into the sky. The pilot would stand in a basket attached to the balloon and control the height of the balloon by adding and subtracting heat. The only problem with hot air balloons are that you can’t go which way you want because it is what ever the way that the wind is blowing.
Airplanes
The first airplane was a glider that had no room in it, only for one person and it was very hard to control. Later on people have created a lot more inventions that are safe and that work. Over many years airplanes have been used for many things and are still used today. They have changed greatly and are a fantastic transport. From people trying to fly with feathers on their arms to gliders to hot air balloons that you can’t control the way you move to now where we have airplanes that you can control your not doing dangerous things and there is enough room for many people.
Airplanes have changed a lot over the year.
By Bianca
The First Radio
ReplyDeleteHello Im Aneya and I am going to tell you information about the fist radio in the world. The first radio in the world had a long sound tube that is connected to a large box which makes the sound of the radio this type of radio can make music and talking sounds just like our radio but 100 times bigger and its not in the car. This radio was made in the time 1899.