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Worksheet 2.2. Thought Organizer

Whose Invention Is It Anyway?

Invention Inventor True or False Explanation

Agapito Flores False A lengthy process was

the invention of the
fluorescent bulb. It began
with the study of the
Fluorescent Lamp
phenomena called
fluorescence by
Alexandre E. Becquerel in
1859. It's when a
substance emits light
that it has absorbed
before. Different to that
still used today, the idea
on the design of
fluorescent tubes.

American inventor
Thomas Edison invented
the fluorescent lamp on
May 19, 1896, and used a
calcium tungstate coating
since the fluorescent
material obtained a
patent in 1907, but was
not made. Since it had a
brief working life and
instead considered the
triumph of the
incandescent lamp.

The first low-pressure

mercury-vapor lamp was
invented by US inventor
Peter Cooper Hewitt in
1901. (U.S. patent

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889,692), which is known

as the very first
prototype of new
fluorescent lamps today.
An better fluorescent
lamp was also developed
by Edmund Germer, who
invented the high-
pressure vapor lamp.

Alexander Graham True In 1871, Bell began

Bell
working on the harmonic

telegraph, a system that

allowed the simultaneous

transmitting of several
Telephone
messages over a cable.

Bell became obsessed

about discovering a way

to relay human speech

over wires while seeking

to perfect this invention,

and was funded by a

group of investors.

By 1875, Bell had come

up with a simple receiver

with the assistance of his

brother, Thomas Watson,

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that could turn electricity

into sound.

Some physicists have

been working on related

inventions, including

Antonio Meucci and

Elisha Gray, and there is

some dispute as to who

should be credited with

the invention of the

telephone.

Thomas Edison True In 1850, English chemist

Joseph Swan tackled the

cost-effectiveness

problem of previous

inventors and by 1860 he

Incandescent Light
had developed a light
Bulb
bulb that used

carbonized paper

filaments in place of ones

made of platinum. Swan

received a patent in the

United Kingdom in 1878,

and in February 1879 he

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demonstrated a working

lamp in a lecture in

Newcastle, England,

according to the

Jaap Haartsen True In 1993, while in Sweden,

Haartsen started working
on indoor wireless
communication systems.
He was tasked with
finding a solution for
Bluetooth short-range radio
connections that would
add functionality to
mobile phones and
enable new sales. With
the advent of Bluetooth,
he played an active role
in the creation of the
Bluetooth Special Interest
group which was
founded in 1998, and
served as chairman for
the SIG air protocol
specifications group from
1998 till 2000, driving the
standardization of the
Bluetooth radio interface.
During that time, he
played an important role
in obtaining worldwide
regulatory approval for
the Bluetooth
technology.

A native of the

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Netherlands, Haartsen
studied at the Delft
University of Technology,
obtaining both his M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering.

True American scientist and

inventor Benjamin
Franklin first used the
term "battery" in 1749
when he was doing
experiments with
electricity using a set of
Battery linked capacitors.

The first true battery was

invented by the Italian
physicist Alessandro
Volta in 1800. Volta
stacked discs of copper
(Cu) and zinc (Zn)
Alessandro Volta separated by cloth
soaked in salty water.

Wires connected to either

end of the stack
produced a continuous
stable current. Each cell
(a set of a Cu and a Zn
disc and the brine)
produces 0.76 Volts (V). A
multiple of this value is
obtained given by the
number of cells that are
stacked together.

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List of Sources:

https://www.plethorist.com/agapito-flores-fluorescent-invention/

https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/alexander-graham-bell

https://www.livescience.com/43424-who-invented-the-light-bulb.html

https://phys.org/news/2015-04-history-batteries.html

https://www.invent.org/inductees/jaap-c-haartsen

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