Historical Inventions Day Two

Cross bows that work, gears made of wire, and much much more...

Drafting SCHEMATICS & Blueprints

Pontoon Boat Blue Print

Today we used drafting techniques to create schematic drawings and blueprints that each incorporated two simple machines made of recyclable materials. Then we constructed these functional machines and put them in motion.

Drafting a Double Juicer!

Schematic of that Juicer

Cam's car Design

Pulleys are useful to make fruit carton car-wheels turn.

Sam's Blueprint for an invention using three simple machines.

Deep in Concentration 

Near the end of class we had a mini crit to talk about what we had learned while we where building our compound machines and how we can apply those skills to the next project.

Sprite bottle catapult design.

The Catapult Twins

Simple Machine Presentation

Helpful Links

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Inventors- famous inventors

Female Inventors - famous female inventors

Instructables- great videos and diagrams about how to make any number of things.

TED Talks- inspirational video talks from great thinkers of out time.

unworkable machines - interesting site on non-functional machines.

In Japan they make baby clothes with mops on the bottom so babies can crawl around and clean the floors at the same time....LOL

Rube Goldberg - Illustrator of very complex diagrams and machines to complete simple tasks.

M.C. Escher - artist who sometimes creates imaginative drawings of impossible architecture. 

Time Line Of Inventions

List of Emerging Technology