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Scienvention

An inventor is someone who creates something totally new with their own ideas and development.
These inventions and discoveries can be accidental or the outcome of a long pursuit.

Write the names of the inventors of the following inventions in the given blanks.

Inventions Inventors
1 Carbon microphone

Thomas Edison and Louis and
2 Cinema David Edward Hughes Auguste Lumiere

3 Safety elevator

4 Electric iron
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Leon Theremin and
5 Blood Group Edwin Holmes

6 Bicycle

Elisha Graves Otis
7 Stethoscope
Karl von Drais

8 Burglar alarm

9 Helicopter Rene Laennec
Karl Landsteiner

10 Atomic bomb

Henry W. Seely
Igor I. Sikorsky

Fact File

William Harvey was the first person to correctly describe blood circulation in the body. He
showed that arteries and veins form a complete circuit. The circuit starts at the heart and leads
back to the heart.

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