Inventors Assignment Packet

24 Articles with Questions on Inventors

Included:
Thomas Edison – Carbon filament electric light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera

Nikola Tesla – alternating current (AC) electrical system, Tesla coil

Alexander Graham Bell – telephone

Benjamin Franklin – lightning rod, bifocal glasses, Franklin stove

Johannes Gutenberg – movable-type printing press

Eli Whitney – cotton gin

James Watt – improved steam engine

Guglielmo Marconi – wireless radio communication

Tim Berners-Lee – World Wide Web

Garrett Morgan – three-position traffic signal and improved gas mask

George Washington Carver – hundreds of products from peanuts and sweet potatoes

Lewis Latimer – improved carbon filament for electric light bulbs

Madam C. J. Walker – hair care products and systems for African American hair

Granville T. Woods – railway telegraph system and electrical railway improvements

Marie Curie – research leading to medical uses of radioactivity

Hedy Lamarr – frequency hopping technology used in modern wireless communication

Stephanie Kwolek – Kevlar, a strong synthetic fiber used in body armor

Mary Anderson – windshield wiper

Grace Hopper – early computer compiler and contributions to modern programming languages

Cai Lun – improved method for making paper

Shuji Nakamura – bright blue LED light technology

Tu Youyou – discovery of artemisinin for malaria treatment

Chien-Shiung Wu – experiments that advanced nuclear physics and particle science

Radia Perlman – spanning tree protocol used in computer networking