Using context clues: Benjamin Franklin: inventor.Who knows what today's teen inventors This is a list of inventors. See also: List of scientists, Timeline of invention, List of inventions named after people, List of inventors killed by their own inventions, and . will go on to accomplish? After all, one of America's most famous inventors, Benjamin Franklin, got his start at the age of 12. Wanting to swim faster, the young Franklin invented flipperlike paddles for his hands and feet. To learn more about Franklin and some of his inventions, use words from the box at left to complete the statements below. (A few words will be left over.) battery bifocals bifocals /bi·fo·cals/ (bi´fo-k'lz) bifocal glasses. crudely efficiently experiments designed fires independence instrument kegs kite lightning lightning rod lightning rod, a rod made of materials, especially metals, that are good conductors of electricity, which is mounted on top of a building or other structure and attached to the ground by a cable. patents public scholar storms wealthy STATEMENTS 1. Long before he took up the cause of American--, Franklin was known as a scientist, an inventor INVENTOR. One who invents or finds out something. 2. The patent laws of the United States authorize a patent to be issued to the original inventor; if the invention is suggested by another, he is not the inventor within the meaning of those laws; but in that , and a--. 2. He made a name throughout Europe and America for his--with electricity. 3. Having figured out how to store electricity's power, Franklin invented the electric--. 4. Franklin proved that--was a form of electricity. 5. After discovering that lightning could be channeled safely to the ground, Franklin invented the--. It saved countless lives by preventing devastating--. 6. Another of Franklin's inventions, the Franklin stove stove, device used for heating or for cooking food. The stove was long regarded as a cooking device supplementary to the fireplace, near which it stood; its stovepipe led into the fireplace chimney. It was not until about the middle of the 19th cent. , heated much more --than an open fireplace fireplace Opening made in the base of a chimney to hold an open fire. The opening is framed, usually ornamentally, by a mantel (or mantelpiece). A medieval development that replaced the open central hearth for heating and cooking, the fireplace was sometimes large enough to . 7. Franklin also invented the armonica, a musical--made of glass. 8. At the age of 79, Franklin designed his last great invention: "double spectacles spectacles /spec·ta·cles/ (spek´tah-k'ls) glasses. spec·ta·cles n. See glass. spectacles Opthalmology Glasses, gafas, occhiali, lunettes Vox populi A scene (spectacle) ," which we call--. 9. Franklin never sought--for his inventions. 10. He wanted his creations to benefit the--. ANSWERS 1. independence; scholar 2. experiments 3. battery 4. lightning 5. lightning rod; fires 6. efficiently 7. instrument 8. bifocals 9. patents 10. public |
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