1. INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS

2. Who is the most famous inventor?
What is the most important invention?

3. Activity: Scrambled sentences
Name of the inventor (n.14)
Personal information about the inventor
Most famous inventions
(Collocate them chronologically)

4. Archimedes of Syracuse
(287 BCE – c. 212 BCE) He was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer
pi (π)
Archimedes screw

5. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian artist, scientist and polymath
parachutes
flying machines
single-span bridges
optical lens grinder
hydraulic machines

6. Galileo (1564–1642) Italian scientist telescope revolutionary
theories about the
nature of the world

7. Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726) English scientist telescope
physicist and astronomer

8. Benjamin Franklin (1705–1790) American polymath electricity
Franklin stove
the lightning rod
bifocals

9. James Watt
(1736–1819) Scottish inventor
steam engine

10. Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist
electrochemical battery cell

11. Michael Faraday (1791–1867) English scientist electricity benzene
Bunsen burner

12. James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) Scottish physicist and inventor
colour photography
One of the greatest physicists
of the millennium

13. Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor who
filed over 1,000 patents
electric light bulb
phonograph
picture camera
One of the greatest
inventors of all time

14. Alexander Bell (1847–1922) Scottish scientist telephone
optical telecommunications
aeronautics
hydrofoils

15. Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) American Physicist fluorescent lighting
the Tesla coil
the induction motor
3-phase electricity
AC electricity

16. Rudolf Diesel
(1858–1913), German inventor
Diesel engine

17. Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) Italian scientist nuclear reactor
radioactivity

18. Thank you!

19. 1.The unit of mass in the S.I.
2.The unit of temperature in the S.I.
3.That influence on a body which causes it to accelerate
4.The gravitational attraction at the surface of a planet or other celestial body
5. It is a force…not to be confused with the mass
6.The unit of current in the S.I.
7.The study of the behaviour of physical systems under the action of forces
8.The quantity of the most famous Einstein’s formula
9.The quantity defined as mass over volume
10.The quantity measured by a chronometer
11.The rate of decrease of speed of a motion
12.The magnitude of velocity vector

20. 1 K I L O G R A M 2 E V N 3 F C 4 T Y 5 W H 6 P 7 S 8 9 D 10 11 12

21. Prof.ssa BABBO PAOLA
Liceo Scientifico Vitruvio-Avezzano
a.s. 2016/2017