INVENTIONS PROJECT Proudly Presented By Mr. Camerons Grade 4 Class Brookwood Elementary School Spruc

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INVENTIONS PROJECTProudly Presented By Mr.
Camerons Grade 4 ClassBrookwood Elementary
SchoolSpruce Grove, Alberta, CanadaFebruary,
2004
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Disposable Diapers by Shennez and Gina

• In 1947 George M. Schroder was approached by the
  Henry freed company, so he could create the very
  first disposable diaper.
• At first the disposable diaper was a luxury item
  it was only used for special occasions you
  barely ever saw a baby in a disposable diaper.
• The first disposable diaper was a rectangular
  shape it was made out of layers of tissue paper,
  often 15-25 layers.
• During the fifties the diaper was a high price.
• The training diaper was also introduced in Japan
  for the first time in 1989.

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Cell Phones by Samantha and Felecia

• Cell phones were invented by Dr.Martin Cooper, a
  former policeman, in the 1960s in Chicago.
• The cell phone was made because millions of
  people wanted to go places and not have to waste
  their money on pay phones.
• The cell phone allowed people to go far away and
  still have a phone.
• Millions of people use cell phones.
• Cell phones are really a radio.
• Cell phones have 56 voice channels.
• They have 2 signal strengths 0.6 watts and 3
  watts.

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Silly Putty by Kimberly

• In 1943 James Wright first invented Bouncing
  Putty.
• In 1950 Mr. Hodgson invented Silly Putty.
• Silly Putty has been around for about 50 years.
• He got the idea around World War ll.
• Silly Putty is sold by Binny Smith, the
  makers of Crayola Crayons.
• Silly Putty is a hard bouncy liquid.
• It is made of rubber, so it can bounce.

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Bubble Gum by Caitlyn and Roberta

• Early American settlers made chewing gum from
  spruce sap and beeswax. In 1928 Walter E.
  Diemer, a 28 year old accountant, created the
  first batch of bubble gum.
• He made the bubble gum pink because it was the
  only food coloring handy.
• By the early 20th century, Americans could not
  get enough of the confection, called bubble gum.
• Diemers first bubble gum (Doubble Bubble) was
  wrapped like salt-water taffy and sold in a nice
  yellow color.
• Bubble gum became very popular as the worlds
  biggest penny candy.

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Neopets by Heather and Cassandra

• Neopets began on November 15, 1999.
• A website www.neopets.com was founded by British
  college students Powell and Williams.
• The site developed into a business Noepets Inc.
  by April 2000.
• The company founder was Doug Dohring.
• The company was making money by July 2000.
• The company brought on artists, writers,
  programmers, sales and support staff.
• Neopets are cuddly, hard, and robotic toys for
  children of all ages.

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Airplanes by George

• The airplane was one of the worlds most
  important events in world history.
• Wilbur and Orville Wright were the inventors.
• In 1900 a glider they invented didnt work well.
• They built another glider in 1901, which
  demonstrated the lift of the airplane.
• On Dec.17,1903 they flew a plane with a 4
  cylinder gasoline engine at Kitty Hawk, North
  Carolina.
• The plane flew for 12 seconds and went 172 feet.
• In 2003 we celebrated 100 years of flight.

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Bubble Gum by Kevin and Ibrahim

• 1906 Frank Henry Fleer invented a type of bubble
  gum that was not successful.
• Fleers Blibber-Blubber was too sticky.
• 1928 Walter E. Diemer invented a superior recipe
  for bubble gum.
• Diemer called his product Double Bubble.
• Theres a small alley in Obispo, California
  thats about six feet with two story bricks
  covered in ABC (already been chewed) gum.
• In the Czech Republic, chewing gum is called
  zvykacka- which means cud chewing!

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Scrabble by Kristen and Kohlbey

• The criss cross word game Scrabble was invented
  in 1948 by Alfred Mosher Butts.
• James Brunat made up all of the rules and
  rearranged all of the squares.
• Before Alfred Butts made up the game, Scrabble,he
  was an architect.
• After Alfred Butts quit his job, he began
  developing games, and Scrabble became a big hit.
• One-hundred million sets were sold world-wide.
• At first, the game Scrabble was called Lexico.
• After Lexico the game became Criss Cross Words.

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Cotton Candy by Dylan and Courtney

• Cotton candy is a soft confection thats made
  from sugar that is heated and spun into slim
  threads, that look like a mass of cotton.
• It was invented in 1897 by William Morrison and
  John C. Warton , candy makers.
• They were from Nashville, Tennesse.
• They made it in a factory with another invention
  , called a cotton candy machine.
• To prepare cotton candy you need to load the
  cotton candy machine container with one pound of
  sugar and food coloring.
• The machine heats it and turns it by rolling -
  threads of cotton candy form.

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Lego by Tyler M.

• Lego was invented by Mr. Johnson around 1950 in
  a plastic company.
• Mr. Johnson started his own company, called Lego.
  
• Mr. Johnson was born in Australia in 1925 and
  lived until 1967.
• Mr. Johnson built a lot of small and large Lego.
  

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Aqualung By Julien

• The aqualung was invented in 1943 by
  Jacques-Yves-Cousteau (1910-1997) and a French
  industrial gas control systems engineer, Emile
  Gagnon.
• Divers probably began using snorkels made of
  hollow reeds about 100A.D.
• By 1300,Persian divers were using eye goggles.
• In 1771 Joan Smeaton invented the air pump.
• In 1825 William James designed another
  self-contained breather.
• Cousteaus system used a demand regulator which
  controlled the air that enters a divers lungs.

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Airplanes By Tyler P.

• The first working airplane was invented in 1912
  It was flown by Wilbur And Orville Wright.
• Their Wright flyer was a small wooden framed
  biplane.
• The power to the two propellers was supplied by a
  12 horsepower water cooled engine.
• On December 17, 1903 it flew for 12 seconds over
  the distance of twelve feet.
• The flight took place at Kitty Hawk North
  Carolina, U.S.A.
• The first airplane ever made weighed 600 pounds.
  It had eight horsepower motion.

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Chocolate Chips By Angela

• Ruth Wakefield invented chocolate chips and
  chocolate chip cookies in 1930.
• She made chocolate chips and chocolate chip
  cookies in Whitfield , Mass., and ran the Toll
  House Inn.
• Her new cookie invention was called Toll
  House Cookies.
• Her normal cookies used broken bars of semi-sweet
  chocolate.
• Her cook book is called Toll House Tried and
  True Recipes and was published in 1940.

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Airplane By Brandon

• In 1901, the Wright brother s ( Orville and
  Wilbur) invented the airplane.
• In 1903 they took their first flight in a plane,
  which weighed 600 pounds and had an eight horse
  power motor.
• They had previously, in October 1900, flown an
  airplane that was flown as a kite with a man on
  board. This was at Kittyhawk, North Carolina.
• In winds of 15-20 miles per hour, they found out
  that they needed much stronger winds to lift the
  airplane.

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Razor Scooter By Kyle

• The Razor Scooter was invented in Shanghai,Taiwan
  in 1998 by Gino Tsai, the 44 year old president,
  of the J.G. Corporation.
• The Razor Scooter is a foldable scooter that can
  support people up to 224 pounds.
• The razor scooter weighs about 6 pounds and can
  collapse into a smaller size.
• Some Razor Scooters have taillights and brakes
  some even have electric motors.
• The Razor Scooter has become very popular in the
  last few years.

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Lego By Shane and Hayden

• Lego was invented in 1962 in one set.
• By 1966 there were all kinds of Lego sets.
• By 1969 there were trucks, planes, and ships.
• Lego was invented by Mr. Johnson, who started
  sales in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Morocco
  and Japan.
• Young and older kids play with Lego because it
  tests their minds.
• There are now 218 different Lego elements.

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Neopets By Mark and Anthony

• Neopets were invented by Adam Powell and Donna
  Williams in California in April 2000.
• Neopets are toys that also have an internet
  website (www.Neopets.com).
• Parents and teachers like Neopets, because there
  are daily games and activities
• There are 46 Neopets characters that we know of.
• Members make virtual pet, each having a unique
  and cool names characters, which inhabit a
  mythical world called Neopia.

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Cell Phones By Karly and Echo

• Cell phones were invented in 1977 by several
  people Albert Mikulski, Dr.Martin Cooper,Richard
  Dronsuth, Roy Richardson and John Sangster. They
  all worked in one big group and used a little of
  each others imagination.
• They wanted to develop a wireless phone that you
  could take anywhere.
• It is called a cellular because the system
  has many base stations to divide a service area
  into multiple cells.
• Cellular calls are transported from base to base
  as a user travels.

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