If you go enroll in this course, you shall learn many things! The teacher is awesome, and the learning method is amazing! History of inventions covers many of the inventions from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the world wide web! I made this film from some of the stuff I learned in this course: You will …
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Lesson #180 – Essay #1
The first most important invention I learned about was John Kay‘s flying shuttle from lesson #131 of the 4th grade class. I learned that patents aren’t always a good thing. Kay almost went bankrupt from patent lawsuits. A group of men were trying to infringe on the patent and Kay spent all his money trying …
Short Film
Short film results will appear here by July 1st. If you don’t see the film, I was not able to incorporate any of the above ideas, and it will probably be on a different post.
History 4 and 5: The Pencil
History 4, Lesson #89: https://essaybank.home.blog/2020/02/21/history-lesson-90-the-heliocentric-theory-vesalius-%e2%9c%8f%ef%b8%8fand-the-pencil-%e2%9c%8f%ef%b8%8f/ History 5, Lesson #11: https://essaybank.home.blog/2020/09/14/history-lesson-15-2/ These two essays that include the pencil are a two-part story.
History Lesson #180
This Essay is divided into three types, and five sections. The types are below: Inventions (lessons #176-177) How culture impacts Inventions (lessons #178-179) The five parts of every worldview The lessons are below: Morphine Jaquard Loom Inventions and worldview Inventions and patterns Inventions Morphine Friedrich Serturner invented morphine when trying to figure out how to …
History Lesson #175
Lesson 171: Smallpox Vaccine Lesson 172: Voltaic Pile Lesson 173: Arc Light Lesson 174: Dalton’s Atomic Theory Smallpox vaccine Cowpox is like a weaker version of smallpox. Edward Jenner discovered the connection between smallpox and cowpox, and noticed that milkmaids, who get cowpox once, makes them immune to smallpox forever. Voltaic Pile Volta invented the …
History Lesson #155: Review Of American Invention Week
Lesson #151: Lightning Rod Lesson #152: Glass Harmonica Lesson #153: Benjamin Franklin Lesson #154: Swivel Chair Benjamin Franklin Inventions Lightning Rod Benjamin Franklin invented the lighting rod to protect buildings. He invented the lightning rod after making some studies with the Leyden jar. Lighting strikes were more common those days. People did not want to …
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History Lesson #145
Lesson 141: Soda Water Lesson 142: Joseph Priestley Lesson 143: Weighing Scale Lesson 144: Boring Machine Soda Water / Joseph Priestley Joseph Priestley investigated the properties of air when he was investigating sparkling wine, and he discovered oxygen. He mixed carbon dioxide gas with water, and got soda water, which later grew into the huge …
History lesson: #135
Flying Shuttle John Kay invented the flying shuttle, but he patented it, and he had trouble with the patent, and so was nearly bankrupt for it. The flying shuttle helped a lot in advancing fabric production, and it created a thread shortage. It helped lead to big fabric factories, and to overcome the thread shortage …
History Lesson #115
Mercury Barometer Vacuum Pump Pendulum Clock Robert Boyle Mercury Barometer The Mercury Barometer was my favorite invention this week because it has a pretty interesting story about the spread of the idea and and it’s invention. Here is the story: In the mines, the mine shafts would fill with water. The miners tried to pump …