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Invention Process
Types of Inventions
Miscellaneous
Invention Process Order
Industrial/Information Age
100
Something that can be made better through change.
What is a problem?
100
Devices to solve problems.
What is an invention?
100
This period was from 1750 to 1850. The steam engine started this.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100
Experiment. (HINT: The number of the step this is.)
What is the fourth step?
100
This invention runs on steam, and started the Industrial Age.
What is the steam engine?
200
Obstacle or goal that must be met.
What is a constraint?
200
Altering existing inventions to suit new purposes.
What is adaptation?
200
This is the Current period. Vacuum tubes, television, and computers were all invented here.
What is the Information Age?
200
Collect Information.
What is the second step?
200
These special tubes led to the invention of the computer.
What is a vacuum tube?
300
Achieved by interviewing experts, reading books and magazines, etc.
What is Collecting Info?
300
Created to help the inventor or other people.
What is a Social Invention?
300
The first notice of a natural occurrence.
What is a discovery?
300
Identify the Problem
What is the first step?
300
This device was first in black and white, and is used to watch news and information from around the world. The moon landing was shown on this.
What is a television?
400
Come up with as many solutions to the problem as possible.
What is Creative Thinking?
400
These are created primarily to make money.
What is a Financial Invention?
400
A process that begins with a problem, and ends with a solution.
What is the Problem Solving process?
400
Think Creatively
What is the third step?
400
An early way to type onto paper directly, this invention was created by a Wisconsin newspaperman, Christopher Latham Sholes.
What is a typewriter?
500
Building inventions using the solutions you came up with.
What is Experimenting?
500
These are created for the pleasure of inventing something. Usually a small game or toy. (I.E. Rubik's cube)
What is a Leisure Invention?
500
Who made many drawings of advanced inventions, but did not live in a period where the technology was sufficient to build his ideas?
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
500
Review
What is the fifth step?
500
A machine gun consisting of several barrels rotating, it was named for it's creator, Richard Jordan _______.
What is the Gatling Gun?