Inventions Word Search
This inventions word search lists 40 things that changed daily life: the wheel, the printing press, the telephone and the light bulb, the steam engine and the airplane, penicillin and the vaccine, and newer ones like the transistor and the smartphone.
Johannes Gutenberg built his printing press with movable metal type in Mainz, Germany, and printed his Bible around 1455. Alexander Graham Bell filed his telephone patent on February 14, 1876, the same day Elisha Gray filed papers for a similar device, and Bell's patent was granted that March. On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright flew the first powered airplane for 12 seconds and 120 feet.
A few inventions began as accidents. In 1928 Alexander Fleming came back from a holiday to find mold killing the bacteria in one of his dishes, the start of penicillin. Percy Spencer, an engineer at Raytheon, noticed in the 1940s that a radar tube had melted a candy bar in his pocket, which led to the microwave oven. George de Mestral got the idea for Velcro from the burrs stuck to his dog after a walk in the Swiss Alps.
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- Abacus
- Airplane
- Automobile
- Bicycle
- Camera
- Clock
- Cotton Gin
- Dynamite
- Elevator
- Eyeglasses
- Gunpowder
- Helicopter
- Internet
- Inventor
- Light Bulb
- Lightning Rod
- Microwave
- Nylon
- Paper
- Parachute
- Patent
- Pencil
- Penicillin
- Phonograph
- Plow
- Printing Press
- Radio
- Refrigerator
- Smartphone
- Steam Engine
- Telegraph
- Telephone
- Telescope
- Television
- Transistor
- Typewriter
- Vaccine
- Velcro
- Wheel
- Zipper