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Resources for Greatest Inventions/Inventors?


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For 8th grade history and science next year we are going to do a year of studying great inventions and inventors, and I want to hear about all your great resource ideas!  I'm looking for books, projects, websites, videos, games, anything fun!  What topics am I missing that you think are essential?  Here are some of the topics we are thinking of studying so far based off of this book of inventions:

Communications:

Printing Press/Gutenberg

Telegraph/Morse

Telephone

Radio

Television/Farnsworth (This is my husband's Great-Great-Uncle)

Transistors/Computers

Internet

 

Transportation

Steam Engine/Watts

Trains

Automobile

Airplanes/Wright Brothers

Jet engine

Rocket Engine

Spacecraft

 

Military

Historical weapons

Gunpowder

Tank

Submarine

RADAR/Sonar

 

Modern Conveniences

Lightbulb/Edison

Refrigeration

Sewing Machine

 

Medical

Vaccines

Microscope/Salk

X-ray

Microsurgery

 

Entertainment

Phonograph

Moving Pictures

Roller coasters

 

Thanks for any help you can give!!

 

 

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