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 …
Grade 5
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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 Lesson #175: Computer Week III
Flash Memory CD-ROM Cell Phone World Wide Web (WWW) Flash Memory Memory for computer was large drums, then core memory and solid state memory. A Japanese Inventor created flash memory to improve EEPROM Flash Memory holds a lot more than the older types of memory. Intel manufactures the chips in most computers today. Also, the …
History Lesson #170: Computer Week II
TCP/IP Internet Protocol Suite Graphical User Interface (GUI(pronounced gooey.)) Steve Jobs Bill Gates TCP/IP Internet Protocol Suite ARPANET was a government funded project to connect all the mainframe computers onto one network; if the Soviet Union tried to launch an attack on the US with a nuclear bomb and wipe out the country’s counterattacking computer, …
History Lesson #165: Computer Week!
UNIX Microprocessor Video game console VHS and VCR UNIX Early computers like the ENIAC were difficult to use and expensive and hard to make. Bell Labs and two other companies worked together on a MULTIX operating system, but Bell Labs pulled out. Two men working at Bell Labs for the MULTIX project, Ken Thompson and …
History Lesson #160
Polio Vaccine Intermodal Container Integrated Circuit Laser Polio Vaccine Before the Polio Vaccine, Polio killed, and what’s worse, crippled, many children during the summer (polio season). Jonas Salk invented the Polio vaccine, and it was put into use in 1955. The vaccine was a big deal. It saved many lives. Polio is almost gone now, …
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Electron Microscope FM radio Nuclear Fission Transistor Electron Microscope The germ theory existed before we knew they existed for sure. The microscopes of the day were unable to detect germs and viruses. Electron microscopes were invented in 1933 in Germany. It lets super tiny organisms like germs and viruses be seen. They allow us to …
History Lesson #150
Crystal oscillator George Washington Carver Yagi Uda Antenna Penicillin Crystal Oscillator The crystal oscillator was invented in the 1920’s. It uses a crystal to create electric current. It is used in quartz clocks, radios, and computers’ micro processing chips. George Washington Carver The civil war ended with slavery being abolished. Carver was born into a …