Fernando M. Reimers et al.

9. Telephones

10. Air Conditioning and refrigeration
11. Highways

12. Spacecraft

13. The Internet

14. Imaging

15. Household appliances

16. Health technologies

17. Petroleum and petrochemical technologies
18. Lasers and fiber optics

19. Nuclear technologies

20. Materials science

For their project they will identify the contributions of the development,
the economic and social applications of the development, the factors that
contributed to the development, the roles played by the government and by
the private sector in creating the development, how the development built
on previous inventions, how the development has continued to evolve, and

the possible ways in which this development might evolve in the future.

Students will prepare a PowerPoint presentation summarizing the results
of their research, present it in an exhibition to their class, and post it in an
online platform.

Resources

° The Franklin Institute’s “History of Science and Technology”
(http://www.fi.edu/learn/sci—tech/)

' Time lines showing the history of inventions (http://inventors.about.
com/od/timelines/Timelines_of_Invention__and*Technology.htrn)

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