Презентация на тему Create a list of the top ten BEST inventions. Be prepared to explain your answer

Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Lewis Waterman
James Ritty
Jan Matzeliger

What

did each do?

telephone

light bulb

fountain pen

cash register

shoemaking machine

removable blade 1895
Motor Powered

Vacuum Cleaner 1908

Brooklyn Bridge 1869

seen a year like 1897. An average of 60

patents were being granted everyday. By years end, Americans had registered some 21,000 patents. This was more than the total recorded in the entire 1850’s.

Patent – license for a new invention

idea to patent!

of all time?

What invention has most impacted your life?

Discuss

changes from when they were “your age.”

of the time.

States. They also helped the American economy grow.

Surprising, people were not too interested at first. It

was the United States military that first recognized a practical use for their new discovery.
Cyrus Field laid an underwater cable that transmitted telegraph messages from North America to Europe. This led to A.G. Bell’s discovery of the “talking machine” which we call the telephone; another “toy” invention that was followed by 587 lawsuits.

Who needs that !?!?

of the cable was made in 1857

line. This made it possible for millions of Americans

to afford cars.

Other important inventions such as the telegraph, the transatlantic telegraph cable, and the telephone were important to businesses after 1850 because they filled a need that other inventions of the day could not. Businesses that thrived on shipping overseas really benefited.

1901 NY
Individual

1903 Mass
State

inventions: motion picture projector, electric power plant, phonograph, incandescent

light bulb. He became known as the “Wizard of Menlo Park” because he systemized the process of creating inventions.

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves" -Thomas A. Edison

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