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Invention vs Inventor/Steam engine/ EL

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Interesting facts about the steam engine Sources: https://study.com/academy/lesson/james-watts-steam-engine-facts-lesson-for-kids.html# https://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-steam-engines/ Top 10 facts about steam | Express.co.uk How Do Steam Engines Work? The steam machine’s main purpose is to exchange heat energy in the form of steam into mechanical energy.  The steam engine has had a big history behind it, with records pointing that the very first form was created in the 1st century, but its first form served an unimportant purpose. Finally in 1698, a military engineer known as Thomas Savery decide to create a steam engine for more practical uses with the guidance from the previous prototype. Newcomers created a machine designed to pump water out of coal mines, the power source of this machine was in fact a steam engine he designed but it still needed a lot of coal.  The steam engine was at the center of the industrialization era in England, where it transfor

Invention vs Inventor/Wheel/C.Y

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The wheel Inventor The Sumerians where the inventors of the wheel Sumer was an ancient civilization of Mesopotamia. Sumerians where now for their knowledge, language,governance and architecture. Sumerians medicine was based on magic and herbalism. In 2004 B.C the Amorites begun overtaking the Sumerian Population. The wheel Invention Wheels were originally used by potters to help shape clay Some early wheels were solid disks of wood cut from tree trunks In 2,000 B.C, someone had the idea of cutting out pieces of wood to make the wheel lighter and faster. A wheel with teeth is called gear. Sumerians didn’t create the wheel until 3500 B.C Sources: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-it-took-so-long-to-inv/ https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-middle-east/sumer https://www.dkfindout.com/us/science/amazing-inventions/wheel/ http://www.scienceforkidsclub.com/wheel.html

Technological breakthroughs of history/Vaccination/ E.L

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Vaccination What?  The earliest form of vaccination arouse somewhere between 200 to 1000, when the Indians and Chinese tried to battle certain disease that were on the rise, the first concrete evidence of a perform vaccination was in 1500 when the Chinese emperor vaccinated his kid against smallpox, from there on, there has been many epidemics which have taken the lives of many, and it took a very long time for someone to discover a cure, for example in 1545 a smallpox outbreak took the lives of 8000 children in India. Vaccination was needed due to the circumstances that were sorrounding it, in a time period from 1500 to 1750, scientist have recorded more than 25 big cases of diaseses affecting society. Who?  And then came the savior of many lives, Edward Jenner is considered to be the very first scientist to perform a vaccination to the public and successfully treat smallpox, Edward Jenner led the hunt for the cure of many diseases, his invention saved the lives of

Technological Breakthroughs of history/Telephone/CY

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Who invented the telephone? Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson  we’re credited of creating the new telephone When and where was the telephone invented ? In 1877-78 the firs telephone line was constructed,the first switchboard was created and the fist telephone exchange was in operation. By the 1900mthere weee nearly 600,000 phones in Bell s thelephone system. During the World War I, the United States government nationalized  telephone and telegraph lines form June 1918 to July 1919. Bye 1948, 30 millionth phone was connected in the United Sates, by the 1960s. Why was the telephone invented? The telephone was invented to people communicate with other  in a long distance, and in case of emergency if somethings bad happens