We are currently learning about evidence from the past and how it helps us to understand the place we live in. We are also learning how to write explanation texts. After researching Thomas Edison and orally presenting our findings, we wrote this text together.
How Thomas Edison’s
inventions have changed our world
Thomas Edison’s inventions
have changed our world a lot. They have given us the chance to talk to friends
who are somewhere else, music, talking dolls, movies and maybe most
importantly, light when it is dark.
Thomas Edison improved Mr
Bell’s telephone, so that it could be used to talk with our friends from far
away. He also made it louder. Almost everyone has a telephone now.
His phonograph recorded sound
clearly and people used it to listen to music. Now, many people use iPods and
stereos for this. Thomas Edison even created the talking doll by putting a
little phonograph inside the doll.
He invented a machine that
recorded moving pictures (kinetoscope), which gave us silent movies. Later, he
connected the phonograph with the kinetoscope to get sound and moving pictures
together. This was the first ever movie!
Thomas Edison’s most famous
invention was the light bulb, because, when it was dark, we could turn on the
lights and see clearly. The first light bulb only lasted for two or three
minutes, but modern light bulbs can last for years.
Thomas Edison’s inventions
make our lives easier and happier.
By: Reach, King, Nikor, Sal
and Mony
