Professor Scott Visit

Due: Friday, Dec, 3^rd 2010                                                                    Walid Adam

                                                                                                                 R-8A

                                            .Visit from Professor Scott assignment.

         -What did you learn?

   I learned that first full steam ship was built in Canada (Montreal) by John Molson in the early 1800’s; John Molson also started his own brewery (Molson Canadian).

 

   I learned that every time a new sort of technology is invented, new technologies are needed to support it.

    I learned that approximately 1 million Irish people died because of  Gorta Mór (the Great Hunger) and many, many more people emigrated from Ireland to U.S.A.

     

 -Which technology interests you?

Automobiles: The first car ever made was invented as early as 1769. It used the power of steam. In 1806 the first ‘Internal combustion engine’ was invented using fuel. It was very useful because the only was to get from ‘A’ to ‘B’ was by walking, horse or boat.

-  How did it impact society?

     It was a huge impact to society in many different ways, for example; time. Time is one of the biggest reasons people use cars. In 2001, approximately 70% of Americans drove to work in cars. If there were no cars then the 70% of Americans would have had to walk, bike, fly, take the subway, bus or even ride a horse to work.

 Cars have advantages and disadvantages. Its disadvantages are laziness. People use cars to go across the street.

Another disadvantage is the cost of owning a car. People nowadays pay 15 thousand dollars or more to own a car. And you’d have to pay bout 30 dollars or more for a full tank of gas.

-Questions (for the inventor)

What made you want to invent the automobile?

Do you think your invention was ahead of your time?

       - Tie to the big ideas

(history is a collection of stories) People from the past didn’t have TVs, radio or the internet; all they had were the newspaper, books, and their own knowledge. So everything they knew came from reading.