INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS

Who is the most famous inventor? What is the most important invention?

Activity: Scrambled sentences Name of the inventor (n.14) Personal information about the inventor Most famous inventions (Collocate them chronologically)

Archimedes of Syracuse (287 BCE – c. 212 BCE) He was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer pi (π) Archimedes screw

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian artist, scientist and polymath parachutes flying machines single-span bridges optical lens grinder hydraulic machines

Galileo (1564–1642) Italian scientist telescope revolutionary theories about the nature of the world

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726) English scientist telescope physicist and astronomer

Benjamin Franklin (1705–1790) American polymath electricity Franklin stove the lightning rod bifocals

James Watt (1736–1819) Scottish inventor steam engine

Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist electrochemical battery cell

Michael Faraday (1791–1867) English scientist electricity benzene Bunsen burner

James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) Scottish physicist and inventor colour photography One of the greatest physicists of the millennium

Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor who filed over 1,000 patents electric light bulb phonograph picture camera One of the greatest inventors of all time

Alexander Bell (1847–1922) Scottish scientist telephone optical telecommunications aeronautics hydrofoils

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) American Physicist fluorescent lighting the Tesla coil the induction motor 3-phase electricity AC electricity

Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), German inventor Diesel engine

Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) Italian scientist nuclear reactor radioactivity

Thank you!

1.The unit of mass in the S.I. 2.The unit of temperature in the S.I. 3.That influence on a body which causes it to accelerate 4.The gravitational attraction at the surface of a planet or other celestial body 5. It is a force…not to be confused with the mass 6.The unit of current in the S.I. 7.The study of the behaviour of physical systems under the action of forces 8.The quantity of the most famous Einstein’s formula 9.The quantity defined as mass over volume 10.The quantity measured by a chronometer 11.The rate of decrease of speed of a motion 12.The magnitude of velocity vector

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Prof.ssa BABBO PAOLA Liceo Scientifico Vitruvio-Avezzano a.s. 2016/2017