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Inventors: People who make a difference
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Inventors solve problems
They look for new ways of doing things that make life easier for everyone.
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Have you ever heard of Ben Franklin?
Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Statemsman Inventor
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BEN Franklin Inventor The Franklin Stove The lighting Rod
Bi focal glasses
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Can you imagine a time when we didn’t have cellphones
Can you imagine a time when we didn’t have cellphones? What about when we didn’t have any phones.
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People could only communicate over long distances by using morse code, a series of dots and dash sounds. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone so that people could speak directly to eachother without having to tap out a code.
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Once upon a time people had to work by candlelight
It was very hard to read
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A man named Thomas Edison had an idea. he tried and failed many times
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he kept trying until he invented the first light bulb
so now people could have daylight whenever they needed it.
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He invented many things:
the phonograph the stock market ticker and motion pictures
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There was a time when we didn’t have computers
There was a time when we didn’t have computers. People had to type all their documents and had to start over if they made one mistake.
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Computers used to be big and expensive
Computers used to be big and expensive . The first computer could fill up an entire room and needed skilled technicans to program punch cards. It could take hours to do simple calculations. Two young men decided to make a computer that was easy to use and that everyone could own.
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Those young men were called Steve Jobs and Steve Wozinak
Those young men were called Steve Jobs and Steve Wozinak. They started a little company called Apple.
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Apple invented products most of use everyday
ipods iphones itunes imacs
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Like Thomas Edison and Ben Franklin Jobs invented something new
A new way to make movies
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And can you imagine the horror of the world without video games
Well if you were a kid back in the 70s you were in for a treat.
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A cool little game called Pong!
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Inventors Try to improve people’s lives what do you know about Inventors?
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