Inventors and Inventions from the Turn of the Century
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Thomas Alva Edison Electricity/Light Bulb -didnt learn to talk
until he was 4! -ALWAYS asked WHY, WHY, WHY? -had Scarlet Fever
early in life and was left with a hearing loss. -hyperative child,
very distractable and said to be difficult by his teachers In 1879,
extremely disappointed by the fact that Bell had beaten him in the
race to patent the first authentic transmission of the human voice,
Edison now "one upped" all of his competition by inventing the
first commercially practical incandescent electric light
bulb...
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From then to now
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Alexander Graham Bell
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From then to now
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
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From then to now
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George Washington CARVER -born into slavery -botanist
-scientist -inventor -crop rotation -soil conservation -discovered
many uses of crops
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From then to now
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How have these inventors and their inventions impacted our
lives today? Thomas EdisonElectricity Alexander BellPhone Orville
and Wilbur WrightFlight George Washington CarverScience of
agriculture