Invention+Convention

toc =Thomas Edison= 1)When was Edison born? Thomas Edison was born on February11, 1847. 2)Describe what Edison’s education was like. How does Edison’s education compare to your education? Thomas Edison's education started poorly and got better. He loved science. His education was really far from mine. Because he only went to school for only six months and learned a lot. I go to school and learn little. I went to school for nine years and he had only six months. 3)How did Edison spend his free time? He spent his free time reading science. He did this because he loved it so much. And technical books. Also to learn how to operate the graph. 4)What opportunities did Edison have as a telegraph operator? He had a full time job to learn everything. He did really well. I think his opportunity was that he could explore what he had read. Experiment everthing. It took him time to have things into success. He knew little and now he could bring what he knew then and put it into use. 5)What was Edison’s first successful invention? Edisons first successful invention was the "Universal Stock Printer"made in New York in 1870s. 6)Edison’s second major invention was the tin foil phonograph. What did it do? This was his first great invention. IT could record and reproduce sound created sensation. 7)What contributions did Edison make to the electric lighting industry? He put his work into this. He made this the age where electricity had begun. 8)What was Edison’s third invention? How can its impact be seen on the world today? Movies was his third invention. It brought motion pictures. 9) Describe one challenge that Edison had to face. Edison's biggest challenge was the phonograph. I think it was the biggest challenge because that he was doing that invention for his whole life after his telegraph. 10)What do you think Edison will be remembered for the most? Why? I think hhe will be remembered by what he did with electricity. Because he started the electric age. He did a lot of invention that was useful. 1- How do you think Thomas Edison improved the quality of people’s lives in the 1900’s though technology. Well he took an old invention and formed it into a new and better invention. Soon before he died he made a lot of information. 2- How have Thomas Edison’s inventions improved the quality of your life today? His telegraph turned into telephone wch turned into a cell phone. There are even more and better phones. It's all because of him turning something better. He made the tin foil phonograph and another inventor turned it better and better which lead up to the camera. Source: [|http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventors/a/Edison_Bio.htm]

=Lewis Waterman= Question #1: Who is he and what about their life impacted their ability to create the invention? Lewis Waterman was born November20, 1837 N.Y.U.S. He lived at 265 Macon Street, Brooklyn, New York City.He was the oldest son in his family. His father died from a fever. He never had regular schooling until he was ten years old. He spent most his time studying. His mom married again when he was 15. He worked as a carpenter in the summer. He had many jobs like teaching school, selling books and ect. Thirteen years later fountain pens were invented. He never liked them. Lewis Waterman was married twice. His first wife was Sarah Ann Roberts. The second time was to Sarah Ellen Varney. He died in May1, 1901. He was about to have a job. He was so happy with this contract he bought a new Fountain Pen. He was about to sign the contract with his newfountain pen. When he tried to sign the contract he was out of ink and some of the ink spilled in the contract. So he took it back but his boss said no to the deal.He didn't want to be humiliated again so he started to invent something to improve the the old fountain pen. So most likely He started to invent this because he didn't want to be humiliated. I would say that the impact was that he was the spilling ink on the hottest contract.

Question #2: What is the invention and how did it come to be? The invention that Lewis was the fountain pen. It was made in 1883. It was made of 'mainly of a piece of rubber inserted into the open end of the pen barrel and holding and the gold pen in position. On the side of this piece of hard rubber next to the pen was a square groove, in the bottom of the which narrow fissures had a fever. been made with fine saws.' This is how the fountain pen works. Or shall I say come to be.

Question #3:How did the invention effect society at that time? Well it helped them by not dipping their pen in the ink every time after every word. Well it certainly helped Lewis. But it was too late to help his contract. The infection was that they made the pen not leak and doesn't dry up that fast. It helps by not letting all the ink out at one time. He was also the only one that had a clip on the side of the pen.

Question #4: Is the invention still used today? Why? How? Modifications? Yes, the invention is still used today. It is used today only in a different way. It is now more improved and and better then ever. It is used today because we want to write something that couldn't be erased. Like if you sign a check and somebody took it and erased it that would be bad. How is it used today? Well You take off the cap and write. The pen works like this: the pen is a barrel and in the barrel there is a reservoir by the tip of the pen. It is controlled by the reservoir. It changed by like now in the modern days we have ball point pens. Fountain pens wrote by ink very watery ink. The ball point pen isn't that watery. But some pen are very watery.

Question #5: Could this invention have an impact on the future? Explain. Yes it could have a impact on the future. Because I think that it could be high tech. Like it could be a a double sided pen. Or maybe you could write it and send it right into the computers hard drive. Maybe it has a tiny keyboard that could fit your fingers. Like if you could write a text message on the phone without touching the screen. It would help us write stuff and send letters.

Why was it named fountain pen? There wasn't really a reason. It was just named after the one that was already made. Because like it was already made and he just wanted to make it better and not be embarrassed.There's no reason about it.

=Annotated Bibliography = "Lewis Waterman." __Lewis Waterman__. 14 Jan. 2009. 14 Jan. 2009 . It was a good source but it didn't give enough information.

"Lewis Edson Waterman." __Lewis Edson Waterman__. 15 Jan. 2009. 15 Jan. 2009 <[|http://Galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=contains&]...>. Thank you Mrs. Boyer. This gave me a lot of information of his childhood.

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Hello my name Lewis Waterman. I was the one that improved the fountain pen. I loved reading. My dad died when I was little. He died from a fever. I was born November 20, 1837 in New York. I never had regular schooling until I was ten. I try to find the time to study. I grew up and taught in the winter and be a carpenter during the summer. I had many jobs. Like teaching school, selling books, and studying the Pitman system of shorthand. I’ll tell you why I made my invention. One day I was about to sign one of the hottest contracts I was so overjoyed so I bought a new fountain pen. When I got home I was about to sign it when the ink didn’t come out. So I was mad and I made the ink come put all right. It leaked right on contract. I went back to get another contract but he closed the deal. I was embarrassed, ashamed, humiliated. At that time I was determined to change that. My invention was the fountain pen. I’ll tell you something. I was the first one to put a clip on the pen. My invention is mainly a hard rubber inserted in the open side of the pen barrel and holding the gold pen in position. On the side of this piece of rubber next to the pen was a square groove, in the bottom of which narrow fissures had been made with fine saws. Extending from the ink reservoir in the barrel to the pen, these fissures automatically controlled the flow of ink. The impact of my new and improved pen was that now you can buy a fountain pen and have it work. Now you don’t have to write with the feather pen. Or dip your pen into the ink every time after every word. Well now we have new and improved pens. Different kind of pens too. Like ballpoint pens, and waterproof pens. My invention is still used today. Why? Because now we can write it permanently. Now it won’t leak. It’s better and it’s all because of me. How? Well, now we don’t use it the way we did then. Now we can write it for days and not have it run out of ink. Change. Well I certainly changed my life. I don’t know about yours. I wish I could know. I died in May 1, 1901. Even though I died my company still went on. My company was very successful.