Innovators in Computing Scavenger Hunt 6th Grade

Top 10 Inventions 1. sun glasses

Around the year 1752, eyeglass designer James Ayscough introduced his spectacles They were not made to shield the eyes from the sun, they corrected for vision problems.

Who Invented and in what Year?

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http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/glass_3.htm

2. cellphone
artin !ooper on April ", 1#7" first call, placed to !ooper$s rival at AT%T$s &ell 'abs from the streets of (ew )or* !ity

http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/martin_cooper.htm

3. laptop computer

+esigned in 1#7# by a &riton, ,illiam oggridge Charles P. Strite in 1919

first portable computers did not loo* li*e the boo*-si.ed and folding laptops that we are familiar with today He intended the device would be sold to the restaurant trade.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllaptop.htm

4. toaster http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/toaster.htm http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/typrwriter.htm 5. t pewriter

Christopher !atham Sholes in 1"#$

%t was developed independentl b the &livetti Compan in %tal and the Casio Compan in 'apan. Hoists were powered by human and animal power# or sometimes water-driven

#. elevator

first electric elevator was built by the German inventor Wener Von Siemens in !!".

http://www.elevatorhistory.net/

$. personal computer

/onrad 0use in 1#12

2or many computer users now, games are a vital part of the computing e3perience. 1#42 saw the creation of the first computer game

http://www.preventiveguru.com/personal$computer$history.html

". automobile steam(powered) 2.3(mph vehicle built in 1$$1 b *icolas 'oseph Cugnot 9. ,ilm
'ouis 'umiere invented a portable motionpicture camera 5n 16#5, 'umiere and his brother were the first to present pro7ected, moving, photographic, pictures to a paying audience of more that one person.

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http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/automobile.htm

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm

1.. escalator %he escalator was invented by the &merican inventor 'esse W. (eno in !) passengers rode on an wedge$ shaped supports attached to a conveyor belt at an incline of about *+ degrees http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/inde,e.shtml

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