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“eTwinners as Technologists” Telling stories of inventions

eTwinning 2020-2021

Windmill

Research & story by Tony & Ven Slide edited by Icecream Creative Commons picture

1st century AD.It was summer. People in Alexandria had finished harvesting.Heron was trying to find a way to grind wheat.Heron invented the windmill.The windmill was a wind machine.

CELL PHONE

Research & story by Alex & AminSlide edited by MariaCreative Commons picture

The engineer Leonid Kupriyanovich created the phone the year 1957,it was invent Sovietica Union.It works to call other people used,initially,and later in general. Today it can be used to send messages,play video games...

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The lift

One spring day in 1743 Elisha Graves Otis went to the commercial center in New York and she was tired of climbing stairs, and she had and idea, she created the lift to go up floors without getting tired. Nowadays we use it in almost every home.

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GEAR

3,200 BC in Mesopotamia. Two sun-burnt men were sitting on a stone among some trees. They had tried really hard to carry the stone to the bank of the Tigris but they simply couldn't. It was too big and heavy. They had given up and they were gazing at the horizon. One of them was looking at the River Tigris and the other at the River Euphrates. They looked tired. Suddenly, the tall one stood up and started carving a piece of wood from a tree trunk close to him. He had thought that the solution to their problem would be two "toothed" gears that would engage with one another.The gear was created in china in the IV century A.C (in the age the of Zhan guo) the gear were invented by chinese people. It works by turn another cogwheels to active a mechanism, as for example a watch.

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Pocket watch

On a hot day in 1510, France invented the pocket watch. The pocket watch was invented by Peter Henlein. The pocket watch was invented because the people want to know the time. The pocket watch has got a chain and a small clock.

The inventors of the wheel are the tribe of Sumerians.The wheel was invented in 3500 BC.The wheel was invented in Mesopotamia.It was used to transport materials and people.It works with gears and makes spin it.

The wheel

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Steam engine

It was a cold winter morning. Heron was very busy in the museum of Alexandria. He was sitting at a table and he was planning his journey to Athens. He was thinking that people had a very difficult time travelling from one place to another. He needed to find a faster way for people to travel. He had an idea to make a machine to move on coal. It took many years for him to complete his project. When he finally finished his machine, many people came to see it. It was the first steam engine. Later people travelled with it.

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Philonos’ automatic maid

Once upon a time, an emperor Philo was in his castle but he was very bored,so he said to make a robot.He was a humanoid robot in the form of a maid holding a winemaker in his right hand.When the visitor placed a crater in the palm of his left hand, he automatically poured wine first and then mixed water in the crateras he wished. It was a summer afternoon some time after 250 BC. Philo ''Byzantine'', also known as ''Philon the Engineer'' was busy thinking how servants would serve more and better and be more useful around the house. Philon was a great mathematician and engineer but the invention he had in mind was very difficult to pull through.However, he wasn't discouraged. "There must be a way to make a replica of a man that would do what a servant does", he was repeating to himself. He used tanks, hoses and springs and, eventually he made 'Philo's Robot-Servant'.

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The radio

Tesla was the one who invented the radio but Marconi was the one who brought it into the world. In 1897 the radio was invented. The story of radio describes the important steps in the evolution of radio communication and the media.

In Tokyo 2020, it was a hot night,but in the sony building,the lights still on. who were working at these hours? they were the inventors of the marvelous Playstation 5, mark cerny and his team worked hard to create one of the best consoles of the decade.this fantastic console was given lot of happiness to all the people of the world with a lot of improvements.

PlayStation 5

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Alarm clock

One day when Aristotle studied wanted to take a nap for 1 hour.But he wanted to woke up after a short time to studied later.When Aristotle woke up he understood that he slept for a long time.He decided to went for a walk .A idea pasted in his mind:he can made a machine that when it rang he woke up.He putted some bowls of food and balls of a necklace .He putted a piece of wood and some sticks of wood and a dish.He putted one bowl with the sticks and it stand ,in front of the bowl he putted a another bowl without sticks but he putted a other bowl (on the other hand) and the balls.Then he putted the dish .At the first bowl he putted water ,it went to the other and when it went to the bowl with the balls. The balls went to the dish and they did a strong noise and then Aristotle woke up.

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Research and story by Carla, Zihuan, Josep, Paula and Arnau.R. Slide edited by Annalena

Water wheel

The Greeks invented the water wheel in the III century A.D. It was invented to take advantage of the waters movement to obtain energy. It uses the kinetic energy of the waters movement to move a mechanic contraction.

The founder was karl benz. It was invented in 1886. it was invented in Mercedes-Benz. It was invented to move from a place to place. Steering was controlled by a rack and Pinion system. It and a singole gear, and the force was transmitted from the engine to the wheels throgoult

The world's first car

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Astrolabe

Claudius Ptolemy was a free citizen in Roman Empire. During a hot night, he couldn’t sleep and started doing calculations with his mind. But he couldn’t find the answer for a very difficult calculation. He looked out of his window and saw the stars. His mind was very clear and thought a mathematical astronomy problem. He once more couldn’t find the answer.When he woke up the next morning, he went to his laboratory and stayed there for hours, studying. At the end, when he got out of his laboratory he was holding astrolabe.From then every night he was thinking about maths and astronomy, and with the use of his invention, astrolabe, he answered them all straight away.

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WATER CLOCK

It was a cold day in ancient Babylon around 14th century bc. A small group of Chaldeans thought of inventing a simple device for measuring time. They called it the hourglass or water clock. It was a practical invention. Since then almost all people had water clocks to measure time more easily.

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Archimedes’ principles and cannonball

n a hot August day, Archimedes watched as Syracuse was besieged by the Romans. Suddenly, he thought of making a gun that would shoot balls with, with the help of atmospheric pressure. The balls were thrown away, easily weakening the enemy forces. This invention revolutionized the old weapon technology, while in the future many weapons were made, with this as a model.

Josip Belušić was an inventor of Croatian origin born in Labin in 1847 and died in Trieste in 1905. The electric speedometer was invented by Belušić in 1888, and was originally called a velocimeter. Belušić was schooled in Pazin in Istria before going on to study in Vienna. He later lived in Županići and also worked as a professor in Koper. In 1888 Josip Belušić invented and designed the world’s first electric speedometer, which measured and displayed speed. This invention was patented in Vienna under the name of “velocimeter.”

Research & story by Marta Slide edited by Alina.

Electric speedometer

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Paper

The Chinese began using bark, bamboo fibers and other similar materials to make paper.It was invented in 105 BC.It was invented in China.The paper uses are: to write, draw and paint. We use it to study.They did it because writers needed something to write on.

In 1854 Antonio Meucci invented the fixed telephone. He built the invention in his own house so that he could talk to his wife from the living room to the bedroom because his wife was sick and this was a way to communicate and work at the same time.

The fixed telephone

Ivan Vukić, in documents also as Ioannem Blasium Ignatium Lupis, Giovanni Biagio Luppis, (since 1869: Giovanni Biagio Luppis Ritter von Rammer also known as Ivan Luppis or Ivan Lupis (Rijeka, 28 January 1813 - Torriggia, 11 January 1875), Croatian innovator and naval officer of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, a native of Rijeka. He was the son of Ferdinand and Ivana Lupis nee Perić. As a naval officer, he was commander of the Austrian frigate Venus. He invented and built the torpedo in 1860, which was later perfected by the British mechanical engineer Robert Whitehead, director of the company "Stabilimento tecnico Fiumano".

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Torpedo

As a result of a successful invention in 1873, the torpedo factory "Whitehead & Co." was founded. in Rijeka (formerly the Torpedo factory). Soon, 19 countries applied for a torpedo license, and since 1880, the Lupis-Whitehead torpedo has become a standard weapon of the more developed navies.

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The water organ or hydraulis

On a nice day in Alexandria,Greece 3rd century BC, a Greek inventor Ctesibius was sitting alone thinking about his new invention. He wanted to make an organ that would serve as a demonstration of the principles of hydraulis. After some time he finally did it! Using different pipes and a keyboard, he made the hydraulis/water organ. It was actually later used as a musical instrument and it also served as a model on which the piano was based on.

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Tesla coil

Nikola Tesla was an engineer and scientist born in Croatia to Serbian parents. He was a genius known for designing the alternating-current (AC) electric system, which is the predominant electrical system used across the world today. In 1891 he created the "Tesla coil," which is still used in radio technology. Starting in 1894, Tesla began investigating what he referred to as radiant energy of "invisible" kinds after he had noticed damaged film in his laboratory in previous experiments (later identified as "Roentgen rays" or "x-rays"). Tesla is surely one of the greatest inventors of all time.

Solar clock

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Aristotle had to go to work. He got out of bed, went to wash, ate his breakfast and started getting dressed. He saw the sun and realized that it was noon and he was late for work. Then he invented an alarm clock so that a sound could wake him up and he would not be late for work. So since the idea of ​​inventing the alarm clock came to him, he has not been late for any work or obligation he had to do. So if you can not wake up on your own, get an alarm clock to help you wake up and be regular in your obligations.

In 1907 creative engineer invented the knipsa - the little pen and pencil holder that was worn attached to the pockets. Slavoljub Penkala died in 1922. His resting place is in Zagreb's famous cemetery, Mirogoj. Some of his work can be found at Zagreb City Museum and Technical Museum Nikola Tesla.

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The mechanical pen

Eduard Penkala was born in 1871 in Lipkovsky Mikulas, then part of Austria-Hungary, but todays Slovakia. He graduatet with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Dresden University of Technology. Finally he moved with his family to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Penkala had decided to change his name to Slavoljub in order to show loyalty to his new homeland. In return, Croatians as a sign of appreciation almost one hundred years later after he died still call a pen "penkala" in Croatian language. On January, 24th in 1906, when a patent from Penkala's workshop at Trg kralja Tomislava was registered and only after a while the whole world found out about his revolutionary invention - pen. Until then people were already using pencils before that, but wooden ones needed to be sharpened and mechanical ones were difficult to use.

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The mobile phone

The mobile phone was invented from Martin Cooper on 3rd of April of 1973 in a street in New York. Martin Cooper invented this device because he wanted it to be less difficult to call someone. The cellular system was created to be able to call without having to go to the telephone box all the time. It works by dialing the number of another person with the keys. And that’s how the mobile phone was invented.

A few months later the invention was ready, he exhibited it in a museum in Germany. Then most people flew with it.

Zeppelin

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It was July 2nd, 1900. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was sitting in his favorite armchair and thinking "Why can't people fly and go to every place they want at a low budget?" Then he got an idea. He stood up and got out of the house into the garden and watched the birds flying in the sky for hours. Eventually, he returned home and went straight to his study where he designed a machine that would change the whole world. He thought to invent a machine called Zeppelin named after him. This machine would transfer people from one place to another.

The construction method of building metal bridges and the mechanics of the forces in the area of statics were also part of his research. He drew proposals which predated the actual construction of modern suspension bridge and cable-stayed bridges by over two centuries

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The suspension bridge

Faust Vrančić was born in Šibenik January 1, 1551, and died in Venice on January 20, 1617. He was a Croatian linguist, priest and inventor. Faust wrote about water and solar energy, the universal clock, several types of mills, agricultural machinery, various types of bridges in various materials, machinery for clearing the sea, a dual sedan traveling on mule, special coaches, and Homo Volans a forerunner of the parachute. His work included a portable boat, that is to say a boat that, thanks to the same energy as the current may go against the river. By order of the Pope he spent two years in Rome where he envisioned and made projects needed for regulating rivers, since Rome was often flooded by the TIber river. Devices to register the time using water, fire, or other methods were envisioned and materialized. His own sun clock was effective in reading the time, date, and month, but functioned only in the middle of the day.

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WIRELESS BATTERY

The inventor of wireless battery is John Goodenough.It was made in 2013.This idea was first made by company called HaloIPT.It was made because when people are travelling they can charge the mobile wherever and without problems.Wireless charging is the transfer of electricity through waves that reach the receiving machines,causing the device to charge.

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Research and story by Carla, Zihuan, Josep, Paula and Arnau.R. Slide edited by Annalena

The Catapult

The Catapult was invented in Sicily around 399 BC. When two of the engineers hired by the tyrant of Syracuse found a solution to help win the war. The state-of-the-art weapon off thet time spread rapidly to all the ancient cities-states that supplied it and kept it in special warehouses.

The Greeks invented the water wheel in the III century A.D. It was invented to take advantage of the waters movement to obtain energy. It uses the kinetic energy of the waters movement to move a mechanic contraction.

Water wheel

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