One of the items you found in the time capsule was an old telephone.
You need to discover some information about the history of the telephone and its impact on the Twentieth Century. Use the following questions as a guide, but do not limit your information to the answers to these questions.
1. Who invented the telephone? From whom did this inventor “borrow” the idea?
2. Who were his competitors? Although he lacked the electrical expertise of these inventors, he did possess a unique area of expertise because of his father. Who was his father and what did he do?
3. When was the telephone patented?
4. What was said during the first telephone call?
5. Copy
and paste a picture of an old telephone and a new model. Compare
and contrast them.
Check out these resources for some help:
http://www.atcaonline.com/phone/bell.htm
http://www.privateline.com/TelephoneHistory/History1.htm
http://www.telephonymuseum.com/telephone%20history.htm
http://f.about.com/z/js/spr00.htm
The next item you found in the time capsule was a computer.
You need to discover some information about the history of the computer and its impact on the Twentieth Century. Use the following questions as a guide, but do not limit your information to the answers to these questions.
1. When was the first electrical computer invented? Who invented it? What was it called?
2. What does ENIAC stand for? Why was it better than the computer before it?
3. What replaced vacuum tubes? Why was this important?
4. When did IBM introduce its personal computer (PC)? When did Apple introduce the Macintosh?
5. Copy
and paste a picture of an old computer and a new model. Compare and
contrast them.
Check out these resources for some help:
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/
http://www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx1.html
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/comp_hd.html
The last items you found in the time capsule was a picture of an old model airplane.
You need to discover some information about the airplane and its impact on the Twentieth Century. Use the following questions as a guide, but do not limit your information to the answers to these questions.
1. Who are considered the fathers of the first successful "heavier-than-air" flying machine?
2. When was the first successful flight of a manned, "heavier-than-air," self-propelled craft? Who flew it? Where did he fly it? How far did he fly it? How far off the ground did he get?
3. Which United States department expressed an interest in the aircraft? What did they want to use it for? When was the aircraft first used?
4. Copy
and paste a picture of the original airplane and a new model. Compare
and contrast them.
Check out these resources for some help:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/WrBr/taleplane.html
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blairplane.htm
http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/History%20of%20Airplane/history.htm
http://www.21stcentury.co.uk/masters/orville_wright.asp
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kids/flight/feature_wright.html
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