During your time in the computer lab you will be using online resources to learn more about the ideas of our new unit, the Industrial Revolution.
Step 1 –On your window go to “File” –> “New” –> “Window.” You should have one window with the class website and the other to do your research and browsing. I will not answer questions like “What do I do next?” if you don’t have the class website window open.
Step 2 – Go to the United States Patent and Trademark office. www.uspto.gov Click on the “How to Search” on the top right and click on “SEARCH Patents Now.” You will then be taken to page where you want to know about patents issued, or in other words granted to individuals/corporation. Click on the “Quick Search” under the section blue section of Patents issued.
On a separate sheet of paper titled, Industrial Revolution Research, search for 1 patent of an items you use in your everyday life or that are very important to you. When you do your search you will probably come up with hundreds of results. Browse through the patents and find 1 patents that connect to your item the most.
What to do after you find a modern invention? When you focus on the patent you want, describe the original item that you use, the inventor of the patent and date, and lastly how the item affects your everyday life.
Possible Student Example:
1. Blow Dryer: The blow dryer is an item that I often use in the morning to style my hair. There were over 500 patents that related to the blow dryer but the one that I found the most interesting was the portable blow dryer holder, invented by Judy Koster and Thomas Szafranski on June 7, 2007. I believe their invention has improved the blow dryer by allowing a person to use multiple blow dryers with more ease. They have created ways for people to place the blow dryer to continue to dry hair but allowing people to freely use their hands to style. The blow dryer invention has affected my life by allowing me to be more stylish and daring with new hair-dos everyday.
Step 3: MAIN ASSIGNMENT
Copy and paste the link onto the new window’s browser: http://notebook.lausd.net/portal/page?_pageid=33,245998&_dad=ptl&_schema=PTL_EP
This link will take you to LAUSD’s Digital Library where you will do your research. There are lots of site you can choose from, the recommended sites are Britannica Online, Gale Cengage, Facts on File, and Ebsco. You will click on one of the sites and begin searching an inventor of the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. (See possible topics below)
Browse the following topics that you will do further research on. By the end of the period you will give me your top 2 choices for inventor. Choose your inventor wisely because you will be spending some time on it and you will not be able to change it later!
What to do after you’ve chosen your inventor? You can begin writing down the Who, What, When, Where, and Why of your inventors on the same sheet of paper. Make sure you write down where you got the information for your bibliography later.
Your paper should answer the following about your inventor (see possible topics below):
| Who is the inventor? |
| What is the invention? (Describe the invention and its purpose) |
| When? (Date of the creation) |
| Where? |
| Why? (Why would people in the 19th century be interested in the product. Make sure you are specific on the type of audience that would buy the invention and benefit the most from the invention) |
| How much has new technology helped human life? (Compare the modern invention you researched to the invention of the Industrial Revolution, what are some positive aspects of the invention. |
Possible topics:
- Spinning Jenny (James Hargreaves)
- Spinning Mule (Samuel Crompton)
- Steam Engine (James Watt)
- Railroads (George Stephenson and Robert Fulton)
- Telegraph (Samuel Morse)
- Telephone (Alexander Bell)
- Cotton Gin (Eli Whitney)
- Internal Combustion Engine (Rudolf Diesel)
- Assembly Line (Henry Ford)
- Daguerreotype photography (Louis Daguerre)
- Sewing Machine (Elias Howe and Isaac Singer)
- Transatlantic Cable (Cyrus Field)
- Phonograph, Incandescant Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
- Electric Motor (Nikola Tesla)
- Diesel Engine (Rudolf Diesel)
- Manufacturing (Michael Boulton)
- Road Building (John McAdam)
- Canal Engineering (James Brindley)
- Flying Shuttle (John Kay)
- Bessemer Converter (Henry Bessemer)
- Pasteurization Process (Louis Pasteur)
- Theory of Evolution (Charles Darwin)
- Bicycle Pedals (Ernest Michaux)
(Check with me first if you would like to do something other than what is listed, FYI:Industrial Revolution ~1750-1850)