Inspiring Inventors Throughout History

Slide 1 invent.mp3 Inventors! Text Talk Week 6, Day 4

New Recording 89.mp3 Like Rosie Revere, inventors solve problems by thinking of new ideas and trying them out. People have been inventing throughout history and around the world. Who are they, and what have they created?

New Recording 90.mp3 Inventions with light and sound Watch for inventions that use sound or light to solve a problem or to help people better see or communicate about what they are studying.

New Recording 91.mp3 Garrett Morgan Garrett Morgan was born in 1877 and lived most of his life in Ohio. As a young man he became very interested in how sewing machines worked. He invented one that was better than others and opened his own repair shop. Later, he witnessed a traffic accident in a busy intersection. He created a new kind of traffic signal one with a warning light to warn drivers that they would need to stop.

New Recording 92.mp3 Lewis Latimer Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1848. He invented many different things. He is best known for creating a light bulb that could run for a longer time than first ones that had been invented by Thomas Edison, another famous inventor.

New Recording 93.mp3 Sarah Mather Sarah Mather was an inventor and an innovator: she created a tool and then improved it. Sarah Mather finished her Aquascope in 1845. It was part telescope and part lamp, and it was used on submarines and ships. Tools like it are still used to study the depths of the ocean. Sarah Mather lived in New York. Not very much is known about her life.

New Recording 94.mp3 Jagadish Chandra Bose This Indian inventor worked in many different fields of science. One of his important inventions is the Crescograph, which uses powerful magnifiers to measure the growth of plants. Most inventors put their name and a number on their inventions, called a patent. JC Bose believed that his inventions should be shared so other people could use and learn from them.

New Recording 95.mp3 Roberto Landell de Moura Roberto Landell lived and worked in Brazil. In the early 1900s he invented the Tellogostomo, a tool to provide two-way communication by sound at a distance, with or without wire, through space, Earth, and water.

New Recording 97.mp3 Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson began conducting science experiments as a child. She went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research has allowed others to invent important technology for communication by sound. Some examples are touch tone telephones, solar cells, and the technology of caller ID and call waiting.

New Recording 96.mp3 Guillermo Gonz lez Camarena Not that long ago, people could only watch television with images in black and white. In Mexico, in 1941, Guillermo Camarena started to change that. He was only 17 years old when he invented his Chromoscopic Adapter for Television Equipment. This device was added to a black and white TV to make images show in color.

New Recording 98.mp3 Phillip Emeagwali This inventor from Nigeria has created the fastest computer on earth. He says he was inspired by studying honeybees. He observed that they worked together and communicated efficiently instead of doing tasks separately to build their honeycomb. He wanted to build a computer that worked the same way. Phillip Emeagwali s computers help watch patterns in our environment, such as in the weather and the spread of disease. His discoveries also helped lead to the creation of the internet.

New Recording 99.mp3 Ayah Bdeir Ayah Bdeir grew up in Iran and came to the United States to study at MIT. In 2011 she started the company littleBits to encourage people to invent and build with electricity. Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach http://www.ted.com Imagine a set of electronics as easy to play with as Legos. TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir introduces littleBits, a set of simple, interchangeable blocks that make programming as simple and important a part of creativity as snapping blocks together. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to http://support.ted.com Watch her video!

New Recording 100.mp3 Hold up a mirror You can be an inventor, too!

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