Thomas Edison & Grit

invention is

• someone who thinks of and makes something that has never been made before

• to change or amend

• an old fashioned method of sending messages

• something created for the first time, like a new machine

What is a device

• an invention that does a particular thing

• acting and sharing information

• someone who things of and makes something better

• to change or amend

To modify something is to ...

• change or amend it

• get rid of it

• cancel it

• move it

Trying out different ways of doing things

• experiment

• invention

• machine

• creation

One who thinks of an makes something that has never been made before

• invention

• inventor

• investing

• invert

Phonograph is

• a machine that plays games

• a machine that plays sounds and music that have been recorded on the grooves of a disk

• a machine that can fly to the future

• a machine that sends messages

an old fashioned method of sending messages in code over a long distance of electrical wires

• telephone

• telegarden

• telegraph

• trombone

The act of sharing information and ideas using words, signs, etc.

• communication

• talking

• device

• invention

a government guarantee that gives someone the right to be the only person who makes or sells an invention, usually for a specific time

• parent

• patient

• patent

• paddle

A synonym of a device is...

• instrument

• gadget

• tool

• computer