Invention+Cenvention


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=Thomas Edison= 1) When was Edison born? February,11,1847 2) Describe what Edison’s education was like. How does Edison’s education compare to your education? I think that his education was very bad because he only learned about three subjects and they didn't have the technology that we do now. His education is very bad compared to ours because the researchers around the world have have better technology then they had back when Thomas Edison was alive so the research now is much better which leads to better learning. 3) How did Edison spend his free time? He read scientific and technical books. 4) What opportunities did Edison have as a telegraph operator?To learn how to use it. 5) What was Edison’s first successful invention? Improved Stock Tickter 6) Edison’s second major invention was the tin foil phonograph. What did it do? It recorded and produced sound. 7) What contributions did Edison make to the electric lighting industry? He made the light bulb. 8) What was Edison’s third invention? How can its impact be seen on the world today? Without the light the world would've been very dark. 9) Describe one challenge that Edison had to face. having selling all his stock in development he was never able to make it commercially practical, so he lost all the money he'd invested. 10) What do you think [|Edison] will be remembered for the most? Why?I think that Thomas Edison will be the most know en for the electric light because 1 he minimized the risk of fire hazard and 2 made it so people could have light for a longer amount of time. 1- How do you think Thomas Edison improved the quality of people’s lives in the 1900’s though technology. He improved peoples lives by making the motion pictures by giving them more entertainment and the light by making them have light for a longer amount of time. 2- How have Thomas Edison’s inventions improved the quality of your life today? With out the light bulb I wouldn't be able to see my homework and without the tv I wouldn't have my main sorse of entertainment

=Alfred Nobel= Q#1 Alfred Nobel was born on October/21/1833 in Stockolm,Sweden. Had two older brothers named Ludwig,Robert and on little bother named Emil. His dad owned a factory that made ammunition and mines and through that he learned ho to make things explosive. Alfred lived in sweden until he was nine but his father's business failed and they moved to St. Petersburg,Russia. He had private tutors who taught him science,languages,and literature and by the time he was 17 he could speak 5 languages Swedish, French, Russian, German, and English. He was a great student and loved chemistry, physics, and literature, his dad told him that he should study engineering so he could be in the family business.

Q#2 What is the invention and how did it come to be invented? When he was studying in paris he met a chemist who had invented nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin was one of the most powerful explosive, it could blow up anyone or anything but it was very unstable Alfred Nobel figured that you could blow up mountains and cliffs to build new things like buildings and bridges with it but he had to find a way to make it more stable. Alfred Nobel moved back to Russia to work with his father but unfortunately his fathers work was failing so Alfred's family moved back to to sweden and he started to work on his biggest invention yet The Dynamite. Back in sweden he made many versions of dynamite but none were as stable as he wanted one to be be and sadly his youngest brother was killed during an accidental explosion and since the goverment didn't want any more of these tragic happenings they move Alfred's laboratory on to a boat on a nearby lake. In 1864 Alfred managed to make nitroglycerin more stable. he mixed the chemical with sand and made the mixture in to rods. In the rods he inserted a fuse and blasting cap.

Q#3How did the invention effect society at that time?

Now that Alfred had invented the Dynamite people used it in many ways like preparing ground for construction and making mines so people could mine coal and other rocks or minerals and also for blasting tunnels in the mountain sides lay railroad tracks to make transportation quicker.

Q#4 We don't excactly use dynamite today instead we use water gel explosives because they tend to be less toxic and less hazordous and they are cheaper to manufacture. But we still use dynamite for the same reasons that the people back then used it for.

Q#5 No I don't think that this invention will have an impact on the future because people are making new things like the water gel dynamite and they say that it has almost replaced the regulur dynamite that Alfred Nobel made. Q#6 The nobel prize is only given out in these five events Chemistry, Peace, Literature, Physics, and phiolosophy or medicine

=Speech= = = Alfred Nobel

“ cough, cough” sorry. Hej my name is Alferd Nobel I was born on October 21,1833 in Stockholm, Sweden I lived in Sweden until I was nine years old then my father’s work was beginning to fail so we moved to St. Petersburg, Russia. In Russia my father had a factory which made ammunition and detonators and from that I learned how to work with explosives. In Russia I had private tutors to teach me science, languages, and literature and by the time I was seventeen I could speak 5 languages: Swedish, French, Russian, German and English. I was a great student and I love d chemistry, physics and literature. One day my dad told me to start studying engineering so I could join the family business so I decided to go to Paris to study. When I was there I met a chemist named Ascanio Sobero who’d invented the chemical nitroglycerin it was so powerful that it could blow up anything or anyone, I knew people could use it for construction and other things but first I had to make it more stable. After studying in Paris I moved back to Russia to work with my father but unfortunately my father's work was failing once again so our family headed back to sweden and I started to work on my biggest invention yet the dynamite experimenting was painful I made many tries but none of the experiments were stable enough and one sad day my brother Emil was killed in an accidental explosion so since the government didn't want any of these tragic happenings to happen again they moved my laboratory to a nearby lake. Eventually all the happenings and hard work end in success in 1864 I made my first ever stick of dynamite it was made like this I soaked sand or any other absorbent material in nitroglycerin then I made the mixture into rods then I added a blasting cap and a fuse. I received 355 patents for all my fantastic inventions in chemistry, biology, and medicine. I never married or had children because I knew that it’d be a problem because I was often ill and on December 10, 1896 at the age of 63 I died. After I made the dynamite people used it for all kinds of things like blowing up sides of mountains to make tunnels to lay railroad tracks so they could make transportation faster and for mining gold and a bunch of other things. Many people think that my invention will not have an impact on the future because there is something called water gel dynamite and thats almost already replaced my original dynamite they use the water gel dynamite because one it cheaper to make and two it is less hazardous and less toxic. When I died I left behind 9 million dollars and with the 9 million dollar the govement made the Nobel prize. Chose five of my favorite subjects and you could only win the Nobel prize in these five subjects and I never got to see the first Nobel prize given out.