Invention+Convention

toc =Thomas Edison= Links http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventors/a/Edison_Bio.htm

1) When was Edison born? Thomas Edison was born on February 11,1847.

2) Describe what Edison’s education was like. How does Edison’s education compare to your education? Edison went to school for a few months and stopped, so his mom taught him at home. He learned a lot of things by himself so he has a lot of self-confidence. His education is very different than mine, because I kept on learning wherever I go.

3) How did Edison spend his free time? Thomas Edison read chemist and technical books in his free time.

4) What opportunities did Edison have as a telegraph operator? Thomas Edison had a opportunity of traveling the USA as a telegraph operator.

5) What was Edison’s first successful invention? Thomas Edison's first successful invention was the "Universal Stock Printer."

6) Edison’s second major invention was the tin foil phonograph. What did it do? The tin foil phonograph could record and reproduce a sound.

7) What contributions did Edison make to the electric lighting industry? Thomas Edison made the light bulb and a alkaline car.

8) What was Edison’s third invention? How can its impact be seen on the world today? Thomas Edison's third invention was the light bulb, it's impact on today is that it makes us see things clearer.

9) Describe one challenge that Edison had to face. One challenge that Edison had to face was that making a electronic battery car with the right battery.

10) What do you think Edison will be remembered for the most? Why? I think that Thomas Edison will be remembered for the light bulb the most, because it makes us see things clearer.

1- How do you think Thomas Edison improved the quality of people’s lives in the 1900’s though technology. I think Thomas Edison's invetions helped people see clearer, have a stock printer, have battery cars, videos and recorders.

2- How have Thomas Edison’s inventions improved the quality of your life today? Thomas Edison made I have light bulbs, to make us see clearer, battery cars, to have safer cars, videos for entertainment and recorders to hear sounds.

=Richard Drew: adhesive tape=

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Question #1:

The inventor of Scotch tape is Richard G. Drew. He was born on 1899 in Minnesota, United states. He invented the invention in 1961. The real Scotch tape was invented in 1966. Richard Drew came to 3M and was testing 3m's sand paper when he noticed painters were having problems doing two-tone scheme paint jobs for cars were having a hard time at making clear dividing lines. Drew's first tape invention was a masking tape made for painters in 1927 (this tape was designed to help painters paint a straight border between two colors). He thought using his masking tape would help painters with two-color paint jobs for cars or also called automobiles to make clear dividing lines between two colors. The early masking tape was a kind of tape with adhesive on only the edges of the tape - not in the middle. He died in December 7, 1980 in Santa Barbara.  Question#2:

His first model of tape which was masking tape was trialled but it failed badly. It took Richard G Drew 5 years to add adhesive to the tape until it finally looked crystal clear. Scotch tape was made of oils, resins, rubber, and had a cellophane backing. Scotch tape was a type of waterproof tape and nearly invisible adhesive tape. It was trialled and specialized in Chicago and was actually put on the market! Question#3: How did the invention affect society at that time?

His invention, Scotch tape affected the society at that time by using it to wrap food. Slowly after people learned to wrap food American people learned that you could use tape to mend a lot of things. Toys, ripped documents, torn pages and so on. People rather used it to fix things than replacing things.

Question#4. Is the invention still used today? Why? How? Changes?

Based on all I know I see a lot of people use tape, because you need it to fix things and you use it to tape things together. It it used by using scissors to cut tape or using a tape dispenser. There is two changes, one is that an other engineer John A. Border made the first tape dispenser with a built in cutting edge. The other one is that the tape Mr. Drew made was replaced with a more flexible kind of tape in 1972.

Question#5. Could this invention have an impact on the future? Explain.

Based on my information I think that it might have an impact on the future, because if there is high tech and there won't be any paper and you might think you don't need tape but when you're transporting stuff you will need it to keep the box closed and what if toys broke you couldn't just buy a new toy everytime the old one broke, I mean you would use a lot more money to get a good one than using tape to fix it.

Question#6. How did the name of Scotch tape come?      The brandname Scotch was made up when Richard Drew was testing his first masking tape to determine how much adhesive he needed to add. In the first trial run the tape fell off the car the furios two scheme car painter exclaimed, "Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!" The name was soon applied to the all of 3M tapes. =My speech= =    =    Hi. I am Richard Gurley Drew. I was born on 1899 in Minnesota, United States. I am American and the person who invented tape especially Scotch cellophane tape.

When I worked for 3M in1923, I was trying 3M’s product wetordry sand paper when I noticed that painters were having a hard time making clear dividing lines for two colored cars. There was no such thing as tape at that time. Then I thought of what if we made kind of paper that was really sticky. We can make dividing lines or keep things together, so we don’t have to use glue. When we use glue to keep things together it will take a long time to dry. I thought if I can make masking tape, a kind of yellow sticky paper it would be a solution..

I invented masking tape in 1925. When I gave the bodyshop painter my first model of tape, he put it on the car but it didn’t stay on it. The furious bodyshop painter exclaimed to me “Take this back to one of your Scotch bosses and tell them to add more adhesive to it!” Soon the name Scotch applied to all 3M tape. I added more adhesive to my tape and tried for 5 years, and then I made the perfect tape in 1930. It was a see-through, waterproof tape made of oils, resins and rubber; and had a coated cellophane backing. I finally made the solution for painters that painted two scheme cars.

After my product was specialized it was put on the market in Chicago. This was a really big surprise for me. I excepted for a reply, but I didn’t expect it to be put on the market.

Once my scotch tape was put on the market people figured out that you could use it to wrap food. After that Americans figured out you can use tape to fix things. Soon everybody figured out you could use tape for a lot of things, fixing things, making clear dividing lines, replacing things and wrapping food, wrapping boxes, wrapping gifts and keeping things still. Another 3M engineer John. A Borden invented the first tape dispenser in 1932, because he thought using scissors to cut tape was so hard, see I can use this small box with a built in cutting edge so it is easier to make tape in to smaller pieces.

I think my invention will have an impact in the future, because people still needs my invention to keep boxes secure and people can’t not wrap presents if they don’t have my invention.

I died on December 7, 1980 in Santa Barbara.

=Annotated Bibliography=

This is where I got most of my information at this website, but most of the information is about Scotch tape not Mr. Richard G Drew.

 http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Scotch_Tape.htm

Also here, but there is more information about his life. [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Drew_(inventor)]

Really less information on this website. http://members.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexa.shtml

Understanding more about it on this website. http://historyofscience2007.blogspot.com/2007/03/richard-g-drew-1886-1982.html

Some information. http://www.minnesotainventors.org/inductees/richard-g-drew.html  Almanac of Famous people, 9th ed

Thomson Gale, 2007

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