Monday, October 30, 2006

Industrial Revolution/ Inventions

http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor/ind-rev-open.htm
this is the link i will be discussing.

Some of the top 5 inventions that seem the most important to me are the following five.
1)The spinning jenny: This simple machine allowed a worker to spin 6 or 8 threads at a time.
2)The automobile:
In 1886, the German scientist, Gottlieb Daimler, built the first internal combustion engine. It was fueled by gasoline. Later he put the engine in one of the first automobiles.
3)The Airplane:People also tried to put an engine in a flying machine. Finally, in 1904, Wilbur and Orville Wright successfully flew their Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Another era began.
4)Photograpy:
The Daguerreotype, a metal plate coated with silver iodide, was exposed to light through a small hole in the camera.The plate was removed and treated with mercury fumes. Later the plate was washed and treated with table salt to prevent fading.
5)Electricity:
incandescent light bulb and electric generating are just a few of the inventions of Thomas Edison.

These five inventions are the most important to me because without them we would still be cave people writing on the cave walls with our fingers nails and carving our vocabulary into stones.
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