Any easy inventors to write a report about?

Question

I'm suppose to write a report on an Inventor. I did have one but it is to long for me to write about. Please think of an inventor that is already dead.

Answer 1

Ben Franklin and the Wright Brothers have tons of information that can easily be retreived online.

Answer 2

I've always been fascinated by the invention of Dr. Gatling. When he saw that a Civil War was inevitable, it was his idea to create a killing machine so vicious, so horrible, that all mankind would be repulsed and then strive for peace.

The Gatling gun is the forerunner to the machine gun only it had to sit on the ground. Much to his everlasting sorrow, the gun only made the killing more efficient and devasting.

I've often wondered what his dying thoughts might have been...

Answer 3

Archimedes
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born: 290 to 280 BC, Syracuse, Sicily
died: 212 or 211 BC, Syracuse, Sicily
Archimedes was a mathematician and inventor from ancient Greece. He discovered the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cyclinder (he had discovered pi). He then formulated a hydrostatic principle based on that mathmatical relationship called Archimedes' principle. He inventing the Archimedes screw - a screw-shaped machine or hydraulic screw that raised water from a lower to a higher level. Archimedes also invented the catupult, the lever, the compound pulley, and the burning mirror (a system of mirrors that burned the boots and ships of invading armies by focusing the sun's rays). Although Archimedes is credited with inventing the screw in the 3rd century BC, his screw was not like today's screw fastener but actually two other screw-type devices.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blarchimedes.htm

Famous Inventors:
http://inventors.about.com/library/bl/bl1_1.htm

Answer 4

Ben Franklin
Thomas Edison - lightbulb

Answer 5

Nikola Tesla- tons of things, Thomas Edison - tons of things, Galileo - telescope, A.G. Bell - phone, wright brothers - plane, Marconi - Radio ( I would do this one - tons of info and super helpful in todays society), if you want more than just let me know...

Answer 6

george washington carver .. he thought of a ton of stuff to do with peanuts .. hes really easy to do a report on .. theres lots of stuff on him online also