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MODULE Imagine! Invent!
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Short
Read A Century of 1903 AIRPLANE A Century of Amazing Inventions ................................196
Amazing Inventions Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright owned
a bicycle shop. That’s not how they became
famous, though. They invented one of the
TELEVISION first airplanes, which helped make people’s
dreams of flying come true.
Philo Farnsworth grew up in a home
without electricity, yet at age 21,
he invented the television. In his lifetime, 1928 BUBBLEGUM
hundreds of other things as well.
It starts with an “Aha!” moment. An inventor has a brilliant idea. the productive Farnsworth invented For centuries, people
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Then he or she creates something that never existed before. An chewed the gum, or sap, from
invention can be a device, a process, or a discovery. Often it solves a trees. Walter Diemer came up with an idea
for making stretchier gum. His invention
problem and makes life easier. Sometimes it just makes life more fun. keeps kids popping bubbles to this day.
2 During the 20th century (1900–1999), inventors were bursting SKATEBOARD INFORMATIONAL TEXT
with original ideas. Many of their inventions are part of daily life today. 1958
The timeline on the next page shows some of the 20th century’s most No one knows who first thought of VIDEO GAME
attaching roller-skate wheels to a board,
memorable inventions. but it was probably a surfer. Surfing was The first video game was
becoming more and more popular in the called Tennis for Two. It was invented at
late 1950s, and skate-boarding became Brookhaven National Laboratory in New
a way to “surf” on the street. York. A lighted dot acted like a tennis ball.
Players “hit” the ball back and forth by
1977 pushing a button.
PERSONAL
COMPUTER CELL PHONE
1983
One of the earliest personal computers The cell phone had been around
had a keyboard but no screen. To use it, for 10 years before anyone could
people connected it to a television. buy one. One of the first cell
phones weighed nearly two
pounds and cost almost $4,000!
2000
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Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison
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Changed Our Lives ...............................................................198
by Gene Barretta
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A Bumpy Ride ..........................................................................226
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A BUMPY RIDE by Sharon Katz Cooper and Rachel Young • illustrated by Ariane Elsammak
by Sharon Katz Cooper and Rachel Young
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illustrated by
Ariane Elsammak
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Rosie Revere, Engineer .......................................................240
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by Andrea Beaty • illustrated by David Roberts
NARRATIVE POEM
by Andrea Beaty illustrated by David Roberts
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Edison’s Best Invention ......................................................256
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Performance Task
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Write an Opinion Essay ............................................... 272
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