LET´S GO TO THE THEATRE¡
Dos mentes privilegiadas!
Dos genios creativos!! Dos maestros de
la ciencia!!!
... Pero absolutamente incapaces de inventar nada que tenga sentido! Ayuda a nuestros genios chiflados en su intento de
pasar a la Historia y acompáñanos en este repaso a los inventos e inventores más famosos de todos los tiempos con el estilo Interacting: Diversión y
Participación aseguradas!! 2º y 3er ciclo de primaria.
THE INVENTORS
Professor Muddles is a
highly intelligent and distinguished inventor...whose everyday life is a
complete muddle! He rocks out to loud music and dreams of recognition for his
multipurpose pen while those around him despair of his eccentric habits. Then
one day an invitation arrives to attend the ..INVENTORS' WORLD CONVENTION
2013!! Famous inventors from all eras are put together in a humorous and nail biting
selection process. The task: to create a new and innovative invention. The
prize: ONE MILLION POUNDS. Will Prof Muddles be paired with Madame Curie...or
will he choose an aviation loving Wright brother!? Observe two genius minds at
work as Muddles and partner create a way to TIME TRAVEL...and journey back with
the inventors to witness some of history's most important inventions. Does
Muddles return to the conference and win the PRIZE,or does he get lost among
the cavemen in the Stone Age? All will be revealed in this exciting Interacting
show...
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Who invented
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1. Who invented the light bulb?
2. Who invented penicillin?
3. Who invented the car?
4. Who invented the world wide web?
5. Where was the chupa chups invented?
6. Who invented the submarine?
7. Who invented the printing press?
8. Who invented the telephone?
9. Who invented the mobile telephone?
10. Who invented homework?
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1. The word “hello” was
invented to speak on the _____________________ .
2. Inventors think of
clever ______________.
3. A Canadian doctor
__________________ Basketball.
4. You ______________
plastic bottles to help the environment.
5. I drive to work
everyday in an invention. It is my ________.
6. Do you have a
_________________? I use mine for the Internet and to play games.
7. A _______________
bicycle has two wheels. The first bicycle had four wheels.
8. In 1827 Joseph
Nicephore Niepce took the first ever photo on a ___________________.
9. The Mayan people are
famous for inventing the food _______________.
10. Albert Einstein was
a famous ____________________.
11. I watch cartoons on
my ______________________. It was invented by the Scottish inventor John Logie
Baird.
12. I want to win a
______________ in the INTERACTING Inventors competition.
THE
SANDWICH, C.1770
The modern sandwich is
named after Lord Sandwich. Evidently John Montagu had been a very conversant
gambler. He did not have time to have meal during the play, so he would ask his
servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread during his
long hours play at the card table. This habit became well known among his
gambling friends and thus the ‘sandwich’ was born. Because Montagu also
happened to be the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, others began to order "the
same as Sandwich!" However, the exact circumstances of the invention are
still the subject of debate. A rumour in a contemporary travel ook
called Tour to London
(although not confirmed) by Pierre Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that
bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table.
THE
PIZZA, 1889
Umberto I (1844-1900),
King ofItaly, and his wife, Queen Margherita di Savoia (1851-1926), in Naples
on holiday, called to their palace the most popular of the pizzaioli (pizza
chef), Raffaele Esposito, to taste his specialties. He prepared three kinds of
pizzas: one with pork fat, cheese, and basil; one with garlic, oil, and tomatoes;
and another with mozzarella, basil, and tomatoes (in the colors of the Italian
flag). The Queen liked the last kind of pizza so much that she sent to the
pizzzaiolo a letter to thank him saying, "I assure you that the three
kinds of pizza you have prepared were very delicious." Raffaele Esposito dedicated
his specialty to the Queen and called it "Pizza Margherita." This
pizza set the standard by which today's pizzaevolved as well as firmly
established Naples as the pizza capitol of the world.
THE WELLINGTON BOOT
They were worn and
popularised by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. This novel
"Wellington"
boot then became a fashionable style emulated by the British aristocracy in the
early 19th century.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING MORE
ABOUT INVENTIONS?
THE TOP TEN INVENTIONS
The Internet
Credit: Creative Commons | The Opte ProjectIt really needs no introduction:
The global system of interconnected computer networks known as the Internet is
used by billions of people worldwide. Countless people helped develop it, but
the person most often credited with its invention is the computer scientist
Lawrence Roberts. In the 1960s, a team of computer scientists working for the
U.S. Defense Department's ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) built a
communications network to connect the computers in the agency, called ARPANET.
It used a method of data transmission called "packet switching" which
Roberts, a member of the team, developed based on prior work of other computer
scientists. ARPANET was the predecessor of the Internet.
Penicillin
Credit: National Institutes of HealthIt's one of the most famous discovery
stories in history. In 1928, the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming noticed a
bacteria-filled Petri dish in his laboratory with its lid accidentally ajar.
The sample had become contaminated with a mold, and everywhere the mold was,
the bacteria was dead. That antibiotic mold turned out to be the fungus
Penicillium, and over the next two decades, chemists purified it and developed
the drug Penicillin, which fights a huge number of bacterial infections in
humans without harming the humans themselves.
Penicillin was being mass produced and advertised by 1944. This poster
attached to a curbside mailbox advised World War II servicemen to take the drug
to rid themselves of venereal disease.
The light bulb
Credit: Terren | Creative CommonsWhen all you have is natural light,
productivity is limited to daylight hours. Light bulbs changed the world by
allowing us to be active at night. According to historians, two dozen people
were instrumental in inventing incandescent lamps throughout the 1800s; Thomas
Edison is credited as the primary inventor because he created a completely
functional lighting system, including a generator and wiring as well as a
carbon-filament bulb like the one above, in 1879.
As well as initiating the introduction of electricity in homes throughout
the Western world, this invention also had a rather unexpected consequence of changing people's sleep patterns. Instead of going to bed at nightfall (having
nothing else to do) and sleeping in segments throughout the night separated by
periods of wakefulness, we now stay up except for the 7 to 8 hours allotted for
sleep, and, ideally, we sleep all in one go.
The telephone
Credit: Public domainThough several inventors did pioneering work on
electronic voice transmission (many of whom later filed intellectual property
lawsuits when telephone use exploded), Alexander Graham Bell was the first to
be awarded a patent for the electric telephone in 1876. His patent drawing is
pictured above.
The invention quickly took off, and revolutionalized global business and
communication.
The internal combustion engine
Credit: Zephyris | Creative CommonsIn these engines, the combustion of a
fuel releases a high-temperature gas, which, as it expands, applies a force to
a piston, moving it. Thus, combustion engines convert chemical energy into
mechanical work. Decades of engineering by many scientists went in to designing
the internal combustion engine, which took its (essentially) modern form in the
latter half of the 19th century. The engine ushered in the Industrial Age, as
well as enabling the invention of a huge variety of machines, including modern
cars and aircraft.
Pictured are the operating steps of a four-stroke internal combustion
engine. The strokes are as follows: 1) Intake stroke - air and vaporised fuel
are drawn in. 2) Compression stroke - fuel vapor and air are compressed and
ignited. 3) Power stroke - fuel combusts and piston is pushed downwards,
powering the machine. 4) Exhaust stroke - exhaust is driven out.
The printing press 
Credit: MatthiasKabel | Creative CommonsThe German Johannes Gutenberg
invented the printing press around 1440. Key to its development was the hand
mold, a new molding technique that enabled the rapid creation of large
quantities of metal movable type. Printing presses exponentially increased the speed
with which book copies could be made, and thus they led to the rapid and
widespread dissemination of knowledge for the first time in history. Twenty
million volumes had been printed in Western Europe by 1500.
Among other things, the printing press permitted wider access to the Bible,
which in turn led to alternative interpretations, including that of Martin
Luther, whose "95 Theses" a document printed by the hundred-thousand
sparked the Protestant Reformation
The compass
Credit: Typo | Creative CommonsAncient mariners navigated by the stars, but
that method didn't work during the day or on cloudy nights, and so it was
unsafe to voyage far from land.
The Chinese invented the first compass sometime between the 9th and 11th
century; it was made of lodestone, a naturally-magnetized iron ore, the
attractive properties of which they had been studying for centuries. (Pictured
is a model of an ancient Chinese compass from the Han Dynasty; it is a
south-indicating ladle, or sinan, made of polished lodestone.) Soon after, the
technology passed to Europeans and Arabs through nautical contact. The compass
enabled mariners to navigate safely far from land, increasing sea trade and
contributing to the Age of Discovery.
The nail 
Credit: alexcoolok | ShutterstockWithout nails, civilization would surely
crumble. This key invention dates back more than 2,000 years to the Ancient
Roman period, and became possible only after humans developed the ability to
cast and shape metal. Previously, wood structures had to be built by
interlocking adjacent boards geometrically a much more arduous construction
process.
Meanwhile, the screw a stronger but harder-to-insert fastener is thought to
have been invented by the Greek scholar Archimedes in the third century B.C.
The wheel
Credit: James Steidl | ShutterstockBefore the invention of the wheel in 3500 B.C.,
humans were severely limited in how much stuff we could transport over land,
and how far. Wheeled carts facilitated agriculture and commerce by enabling the
transportation of goods to and from markets, as well as easing the burdens of
people traveling great distances. Now, wheels are vital to our way of life,
found in everything from clocks to vehicles to turbines.
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