Invention Images
WORLDHISTORY PROJECT1750 / LESSON 3.1OPENERINVENTIONIMAGESUnless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Credit: “Invention Images”, OER Project, www.oerproject.com/1PurposeImagine a world without selfies. Or a world in which your clothing was all handmade. If not for the Industrial Revolution, that’s probably what your world wouldlook like! This activity will introduce you to some of the new inventions in Britain after 1750. It will also help sharpen your analytical skills as you decide just how relevant these itemsstillare in your world today.ProcessLook at the four inventions on the next page. Which of these inventions has had the leastimpact on your life today? All four have some relevance today, so you’ll need to make an argument explaining whyone of the inventions is less impactfulthan the others.
WORLD HISTORY PROJECT1750 / LESSON 3.1 OPENERINVENTION IMAGES2Which of these items is least relevant today?AHenry Bessemer’s converter.(It helped enable the mass production of steel)BElias Howe’s sewing machine.CCharles Babbage’s analytic engine.(Itwas a design for the first general-purpose computer)DEarly calotype camera, based on Henry Talbot’s photography technique.