1. Activity:
Research and answer these questions about all 6 of the inventors & inventions:
How does this invention help people?
How do you think this invention changed the way people lived?
What kinds of things did this person need to know in order to create this invention?
Would you consider this a successful invention? Why or why not?

2. Eli Whitney—cotton gin
Thomas Edison--light bulb & phonograph & many others
Alexander Graham Bell-- telephone
Wright Brothers-- airplane
Henry Ford--assembly line & Model T
Samuel Morse--telegraph