Unit 5 Creative Minds

Part I-A

Gasoline automobile, German, engineer, 1885

Barometer, Italian, physicist & mathematician, 1643

Polaroid camera, America, inventor & industrialist, 1947

Pendulum clock, Dutch, mathematician & physicist

Diesel engine, German, engineer, 1892

Dynamite, Swedish, chemist, 1866

Kaleidoscope, British, physicist & natural philosopher, 1817

Piano, Italian, harpsichord maker, 1709

Sewing machine, American, inventor, 1846

Typewriter, American, inventor, 1867

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1. The gasoline automobile was invented by Gottlieb Daimler, the German engineer, in 1885 His construction of the first high-speed internal-combustion engine led to the development of the automobile industry.

2. The barometer, the instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, was invented by Evangelista Torricelli, the Italian physicist and mathematician, in 1643.

3. The polarod camera, which takes and prints photos in one step, was invented in 1947 by the American inventor and industrialist Edwin Herbert Land.

4. The pendulum clock was invented by the Dutch mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens in 1657.

5. The diesel engine, which is heavier and more powerful than the gasoline engine and which burns fuel of oil instead of gasoline, was named after its inventor Rudolph Diesel, the German engineer in 1892.

6. Dynamite, the improved explosives with great safety, was invented in 1866 by the Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel. He established a fund to provide annual awards called Nobel Prizes, in the sciences, literature, and the promotion of international peace.

7. He kaleidoscope was invented in 1817 by Sir David Brewster, the Scottish physicist and natural philosoper.

8. The piano, a key-board musical instrument, was invented in 1709 by the Italian harpsichord maker, Bartolomeo Cristofori.

9. The sewing machine, which greatly revolutionized clothes-making, was invented by Elias Howe, an American inventor in 1846.

10. The typewriter, its first practical commercial model, was invented in 1867 by the American inventor Christopher Sholes and was manufactured by the American gunsmith Philo Reminton 1874.