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Inventions Explore some information about inventors and inventions.

Smithsonian's Inventors and Innovations

ASSIGNMENT: Answer any five of the questions below. This page contains brief histories of famous inventors and inventions including Albert Einstein, the telegraph, the light bulb, and the computer.

  1. Between what two towns did Bell transmit sound on Nov. 26, 1876?
  2. How many products did George Washington Carver discover that could be made from a peanut or other plants?
  3. When did Samuel Morse receive a patent on his telegraph device? ( give the complete date)
  4. When did Thomas Edison develop the first light bulb?
  5. What was the name of the U.S. nuclear project started by Albert Einstein?
  6. Who received the first artificial heart? When?
  7. What did Jonas Salk discover? When?
  8. What did Isaac Singer do before becoming an inventor and inventing the sewing machine?
  9. How was the Altair computer programmed?

 

National Inventors Hall of Fame

ASSIGNMENT: Write a brief summary of two inventors or inventions in the Hall of Fame.

 

PBS: Forgotten Inventors

This page spotlights the inventors of some common objects, such as the can opener and blue jeans.
ASSIGNMENT: Choose 2 inventions from the list and highlight what you would consider to be the oddest thing about that inventions / inventor.

 

Innovative Lives

Pick 5 innovators on this website to read about. Answer the following questions:

  1. Make a list of the five innovators you chose and their contributions to society.
  2. Name one thing you think each of the innovators that you read about had in common.
  3. What personality trait do you think one must have to be a successful inventor?

 

Isn't inventing fun?

Author: Kendall Crittenden - Email kendall.crittenden@wasatch.edu