Innovators in Computing Scavenger Hunt 6th Grade
Top 10
Inventions
Who Invented
and in what
Year?
One interesting fact
about the invention
1. Computer
Konrad Zuse builds Z1,
world's first programcontrolled computer
1941
Despite certain mechanical
engineering problems it had all
the basic ingredients of modern
machines, using the binary system
and today's standard separation of
storage and control.
2. Automobile
Karl Benz, the
German mechanical
engineer who
designed and in 1885
built the world's first
practical automobile.
On December 17,
1903, the Wright
brothers made the
first successful
experiment in which
a machine (aka
airplane) carrying a
man rose by its own
power, flew naturally
and at even speed,
and descended
without damage.
Martin Cooper ( now
chairman, CEO, and
co-founder of
ArrayComm Inc)
placed that call on
April 3, 1973, while
general manager of
Motorola's
Communications
Systems Division
Philo Farnsworth
The automobile as we know it
was not invented in a single
day by a single inventor. The
history of the automobile
reflects an evolution that took
place worldwide.
http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Car_History.htm
Inventors continued to
improve airplanes after the
Wright Brothers, and this led
to the invention of jets, which
are used by both the military
and commercial airlines.
http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/a/Airplane.htm
Martin Cooperadded, "As I
walked down the street while
talking on the phone,
sophisticated New Yorkers
gaped at the sight of
someone actually moving
around while making a phone
call.
http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/martin_cooper.htm
His backers had demanded
to know when they would
see dollars from the
invention,[21] so the first
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth
3. Airplane
4. Cell Phone
5. Television
September 3, 1928
URL (address) Where Found
(not a search engine address)
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/zuse.html
image shown was,
appropriately, a dollar sign.
6. Electric Oven
In 1912, the
Copeman Electric
Stove Company
earned the first
patent for the
electric stove.
The electric oven could
not have existed without
electricity being
discovered first
http://www.ehow.com/facts_7719166_history-electric-ovens.html
7. Clock
In 1577, Jost Burgi
invented the minute
hand. Burgi's
invention was part of
a clock made for
Tycho Brahe, an
astronomer who
needed an accurate
clock for his
stargazing.
Alhazen (Ibn AlHaytham), a great
authority on optics in
the Middle Ages who
lived around 1000AD,
invented the first
pinhole camera, (also
called the Camera
Obscura} .
The word 'clock' comes from
the French word "cloche"
meaning bell. The Latin for
bell is glocio, the Saxon is
clugga and the German is
glocke.
http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/clock.htm
On a summer day in 1827,
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
made the first photographic
image with a camera obscura
http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm
The first known
artificial
refrigeration was
demonstrated by
William Cullen at
the University of
Glasgow in 1748
This method of
converting
electricity to
sound was first
developed by the
German Ernst W.
Most home refrigerators
weigh between 200 pounds
(91 kg) and 450 pounds
(200 kg), with some models
weighing up to 875 pounds
(397 kg).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator
Shortly after, Alexander
Graham Bell would be
the first to use this
method for audible
transmission when he
patented the telephone in
http://www.ehow.com/about_6465426_history-stereo-speakers.html
8. Camera
9. Refrigerator
10. Stereo
Speakers
Siemens, who
filed a patent for a
"dynamic" or
moving coil
transducer in
1874.
1876
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www.info.com
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Key words to use: (invention) history or (invention) inventor
or inventor (invention)
or history (invention)
Then click on a link to go to a page with the information. Do NOT just use the information from the search engine page.
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Any blog
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