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Famous Teen/Adult Inventors
FUN AND RANDOM FACTS
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Technology is the use of knowledge to satisfy human needs and wants.
What is technology?
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The students at Hamshire College.
Who invented the grease car??
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They both involve creativitiy and creating things
What is the relationship between art and technology?
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Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim
Who made youtube?
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In their everyday life sometimes they get ideas.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do you think that teen inventors are so important?
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Cooking oil converted into reusable fuel
What is a grease car?
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The iPod
What is probally the most popular top invention of 2001?
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Instead of walking it helps us get to our destination faster.
How does a car help us?
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She disembelled computers and figured out how they worked. She became the third person to program Mark 1.
Who was Grace Murray Hopper and what did she do?
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When they are young they have experiences that get them interested.
How do people get interested in technology?
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It is a compass that finds true north by using an electrically powered fast-spinning wheel and friction forces.
What is a gyrocompass?
300
The people who invented the device that we use everyday to communicate with are Alexander Graham Bell and Samual Morse.
Which two people invented the telephone?
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Look at out phones, iPods, computers. Even our pencils are technology.
How is techonology uesd in our everyday lives?
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Look at our phones, iPods, computers. Even our pencils. They are all technology.
How is technology used in our lives everyday?
300
This kind of technology began in the 1900.
When did modern techonology begin?
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It means people who are very skilled workers or craftspeople. -long ago workers were called artisans
What does artisan mean? -Hint- It has something to do with people and their skills
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Elmer Sperry!
Who invented the swiveling headlamp?
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Engineering is how to make things, science explains how things happen and technology makes it happen.
What is the relationship between science, technology and engineering?
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The gyrocompass
What did Elmer Sperry invent that helped all ships and airplane guidance systems?
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Energy and power, Biotechnology, communication, manufacturing, construction, transportation.
What are the different types of technology? (Name 3)
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A Modern way to name people who worked in technology.
What is a technologist?
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This person is the person who invented the neon light.
Who is George Claude and what did he invent?
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Science explains how things happen and technology makes things happen.
What is the relationship between science and technology?
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He is known for inventing better brakes for trains.
Who is George Westinghouse?
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You understand and feel comfortable with technology. Being iliterate means the exact opposite.
What is the difference between being technologically literate and being illiterate?