Listed below are 36 famous inventors from the 18th and 19 Centuries. Your task is to
choose one of these inventors and compile a power point presentation and an
advertisement poster on the person and their invention. What must be included in your
project is the following information:
A picture of the inventor.
When and where they were born.
Their educational background.
The inventors most noted invention.
The reasons for the invention.
How did this invention revolutionize the world.
What this invention looked like thru the year to
present day (a chronological account of this invent).
What concerns have come about because of this
invention (environmental or social).
The power point should be more pictures then words. You will have to give a 2 minute
presentation on your inventor to the class. You will also have to produce an
advertisement for your person’s invention to be posted on the classroom walls. This is
worth 30 marks. (10 power point, 10 presentation, 10 poster.)
Richard Arkwright Charles Babbage
Henry Bessemer Samuel Colt
Wilhelm Gottlieb Daimler Benjamin Franklin
John Fitch Robert Fulton
James Hargreaves Elias Howe
Samuel F.B. Morse James Watt
Eli Whitney Nikola Tesla
Alexander Graham Bell Guglielmo Marconi
Bartolomeo Cristofori Thomas Newcomen
Edmond Halley Gabriel Fahrenheit
John Kay Benjamin Franklin
John Campbell John Harrison
David Bushnel Samuel Crompton
Samuel Miller Henry Cort
Andrew Meikle Alessandro Volta
George Stephenson René Laënnec
B. Thimonnier William Sturgeon