How Inventions Happen due 4/19

Objective: Discover how inventions really happen.

  1. Go to this page link and read the short article.
  2. Answer these questions in an email to Mr. Melendez
    1. Why is it that often several people are working on a new invention at the same time?
    2. Describe what an enabling technology is?
    3. What was the enabling technology for the telephone?
    4. What was different about the Xerox copier and Velcro fasteners?
    5. How many people claim to have invented the telephone?