Objective:
Gather and present information about an inventor along with their invention.
Guidelines:
1.
Select an inventor from the provided list. Once an inventor has been selected you must choose another inventor.
2.
Gather pertinent information about the inventor. Example where this person lived, date of birth, and so on.
3.
Gather pertinent information about the invention.
4.
Place the information on a sheet of paper that will be hung in the classroom with your name on the front of the paper.
5.
The paper should contain photograph(s) of the person and their invention(s).
Grading:
Category
Information about
Inventor.
1 Below target
Information was not relevant to the inventor.
Information about the invention.
Layout of paper.
Information was not relevant to the invention.
Paper contains many mistakes in spelling, paper didn’t contains photograph(s), use of color was not evident.
Edward Goodrich Acheson
Randice-Lisa Altschul
Luis Walter Alvarez
Virgie Ammons
Mary Anderson
Virginia Apgar
Archimedes
George Babcock
2 At target
Information was complete about the inventor
3 Above Target.
In depth information about the inventor
Information was not relevant to the invention.
In depth information about the invention.
Paper contains two or less spelling mistakes, paper contains
Paper contains on spelling mistakes, paper contains photograph(s) the use of color was photographs and the use of color evident was evident.
Charles Goodyear
Gordan Gould
Wilson Greatbatch
Chester Greenwood
David Paul Gregg
Al Gross
KK Gregory
Johannes Gutenberg

John Backus
John Logie Baird
Benjamin Banneker
John Bardeen
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
Patricia Bath
Alfred Ely Beach
Andrew Beard
Semi Joseph Begun
Alexander Graham Bell
Vincent Bendix
Miriam Benjamin
Karl Benz (Carl Benz)
Tim Berners-Lee
Edward Binney
Forrest M. Bird
Clarence Birdseye
Joseph-Armand
Bombardier
Sarah Boone
Bill Bowerman
Herbert Boyer
Louis Braille
Joseph Bramah
Jacques Edwin
Brandenberger
Karl Braun
Allen Breed
Charles Brooks
Phil Brooks
Rachel Fuller Brown
John Moses Browning
Luther Burbank
Nolan Bushnell
Mavin Camras
Chester F. Carlson
Wallace Hume Carothers
Willis Carrier
Alexander J. Cartwright
Benjamin Carson
George Washington
Carver
Vinton Cerf
Joyce Hall
Thomas Hancock
William Edward Hanford
James Hargreaves
Heinrich Hertz
Marcian Hoff
Herman Hollerith
Erna Schneider Hoover
Eugene Houdry
Elisa Howe
Walter Hunt
Clayton Jacobson II
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jennings
Steve Jobs
Amanda Theodosia Jones
Fredrick Jones
Lonnie Johnson
John Kay
Charles Franklin Kettering
Mary Kies
Richard Kneer
Phil Knight
Margaret Knight
Hedy Lamarr
John W. Lambert
Edwin Herbert Land
Lewis Howard Latimer
William P. Lear
Hugh LeCaine
Jerome Lemelson
Antony Van Leeuwenhoek
John Lee Love
Edward Lowe
Paul MacCready
Charles Macintosh
Guglielmo Marconi
Robert D. Maurer
Cyrus Hall McCormick
George deMestral
John A. Miller
Garrett A. Morgan
William G. Morgan

William Hale Charch
John B. Christian
Josephine Garis Cochran
Harry A, Cole
Samuel Colt
Lloyd H. Conover
Martin Cooper
Peter Cooper
Martha J. Coston
Ed Cox
Joseph Coyetty
Dianne Croteau
Marie Currie
Gottlieb Daimler
Raymond V. Damadian
Newman Barby
Joseph Dart
Leonardo DaVinci
Humphry Davy
John Deere
Robert Dennard
Sir James Dewar
Earle Dickson
Rudolf Diesel
Walt Disney
Marion Donovan
Hervert Henry Dow
Charles Stark Draper
Richard G. Drew
John Dunlop
Peter Durand
George Eastman
Thomas Edison
Gustave Eiffel
Alvert Einstein
Oliver Evans
Ole Evinrude
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Enrico Fermi
George Ferris
Alexander Fleming
Henry Ford
Sally Fox
William Morrison
Samuel Morse
James Naismith
Alfred Neustadter
Sir Isaac Newton
Alfred Nobel
Ellen Ochoa
Hans von Ohain
Elisha Graves Otis
Nicolaus August Otto
Alice H. Parker
Blaise Pascal
Louis Patteur
Arthur Paul Pedrick
George Pullman
Erik Rotheim
Benjamin A. Rubin
James T. Russell
Ralph Samuelson
Patsy Sherman
Peter Schultz
Waldo Semon
William Bradford Shockley
Igor Sikorsky
Spencer Silver
Luther Simjian
Issac Merrit Singer
Harold Smith
James Spangler
Percy Spencer
Elmer Sperry
Levi Strauss
Gideon Sundback
Nikola Tesla
John Thompson
Brent Townshend
Earl Tupper
Evangelista Torricelli
Richard Trevithick
Craven Walker
Madame Walker
An Wang
James Watt

Benjamin Franklin
Art Fry
Robert Fulton
Dr. Dennis Gabor
Galiloe Galilei
Samule Gradiner
Bill Gates
Richard Gatlin
William Ged
A. C. Gilbert
King Camp Gillete
Charles P Ginsburg
Robert H Guddard
Sarah E. Goode
George Westinghouse
Cchulyer Wheeler
John Thomas White
Eli Whitney
Wilber and Orville Wright
Arthur Wynne
Gumpei Yokoi
Hajib Zaid
Frank Zamboni
Fredinahnd Zeppelin
Standard 1 Student will develop an understanding of the characteristics and scope of technology.
Benchmark G The development of technology is a human activity and is the result of individual or collective needs,
Benchmark H Technology is closely linked to creativity, which has resulted in innovation.
Standard 3 Students will develop an understanding of the relationships among technologies and the connections between technology and other field of study.
Benchmark D Technological systems often interact with one another.
Standard 6 Students will develop an understanding of the role of society in the development of technology.
Benchmark D Throughout history, new technologies have resulted from the demands, values, and interests of individuals, businesses, industries, and societies.
Benchmark E The use of inventions and innovations has led to changes in society and creation of new needs and wants.
Standard 7 Students will develop an understanding of the influence of technology on history.
Benchmark C Many inventions and innovation have evolved by using slow and methodical processes of tests and refinements.
Benchmark F In the past, an invention or innovation was not usually developed with scientific knowledge.
Standard 8 Students will develop an understanding of ht attributes of design.
Benchmark E Design is a creative planning process that leads to useful products and systems.
ETP 2006 – Jeff Pegg
This material is based upon work supported the National Science foundation under Grant
No. 0402616. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in

this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the
National Science Foundation (NFS).