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The inventors                          Ciencias de la Naturaleza Inglés  1ºBachillerato            

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The inventors                          Ciencias de la Naturaleza Inglés  1ºBachillerato            

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Type: Recurso Educativo Abierto (REA).
Description: This resource will help the students to learn about machines and the different kinds of simple machines, the history of inventions and how to create an invention.
Characteristics:
- Development Activity.
- They will have some designed task to investigate about the topic and use all their learning in a design of the invention. All the tasks are designed for them to work autonomously and to reflex about their own process of learning. Also along them we try to foster student’s collaboration.
- Licence: CC-BY-SA

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Welcome to a new learning adventure in which we are going to improve our Sicence skills and our ICT ones. We are also going to learn some English skills. This project is about machines, what the different machines are and the history of inventions, and finally we will create our own invention. We will try to do our best and to enjoy our learning process.

Along this project we will work on machines. We will start learning about what a simple machine is. Then we are going to learn about the history of inventions. Finally we are going to become an inventor and create an invention to change the world. We are going to review some English contents like the past tense to explain history.

We are going to have different short tasks which we will join at the end in a great final product. We will work individually but also we will have pair and group working.

SCAFFOLDING

We also offer to the teacher a section of SCAFFOLDING to help him/her to support the language input along the unit. In this project scaffolding section deals about PAST TENSE. This will be useful to work with it. We can do it before the task "History about inventions". At this task we will use the past tense of the verbs to explain and tell about the history of important inventions

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This resource will help the students to learn about the machines and the different kinds of simple machines, the history of inventions and how to create an invention. They will have some designed task to investigate about the topic and use all their learning in a design of the invention.

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Type: Infografía con canva.com
Description: This resource will help student to learn about the Industrial Revolutions and inventions.
Characteristics:
- Reinforcement Activity.
- They will watch a video to remember the main facts of the Industrial Revolution in other to get ideas to write about their favourite invention.
- Licence: CC-BY-SA

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Type: A website
Description: this resource will enrich students' knowledge albout one of the most recent inventors. At the same time, it will arise their curiosity comparing Thomas Edison to Nikola Tesla. It will also help students to use the Internet to get information.
Characteristics:
- Enrichement Activity.
- The will read website to get information.
Licence: COPYRIGHT POLICY

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Serbian-American engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transmission and application of electric power. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology. Though he was famous and respected, he was never able to translate his copious inventions into long-term financial success-unlike his early employer and chief rival, Thomas Edison.

Nikola Tesla's Early Years

Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father was a priest in the Serbian Orthodox church and his mother managed the family's farm. In 1863 Tesla's brother Daniel was killed in a riding accident. The shock of the loss unsettled the 7-year-old Tesla, who reported seeing visions-the first signs of his lifelong mental illnesses.

Did you know? During the 1890s Mark Twain struck up a friendship with inventor Nikola Tesla. Twain often visited him in his lab, where in 1894 Tesla photographed the great American writer in one of the first pictures ever lit by phosphorescent light.

Tesla studied math and physics at the Technical University of Graz and philosophy at the University of Prague. In 1882, while on a walk, he came up with the idea for a brushless AC motor, making the first sketches of its rotating electromagnets in the sand of the path. Later that year he moved to Paris and got a job repairing direct current (DC) power plants with the Continental Edison Company. Two years later he immigrated to the United States.

Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison

Tesla arrived in New York in 1884 and was hired as an engineer at Thomas Edison's Manhattan headquarters. He worked there for a year, impressing Edison with his diligence and ingenuity. At one point Edison told Tesla he would pay $50,000 for an improved design for his DC dynamos. After months of experimentation, Tesla presented a solution and asked for the money. Edison demurred, saying, "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor." Tesla quit soon after.

Nikola Tesla and Westinghouse

After an unsuccessful attempt to start his own Tesla Electric Light Company and a stint digging ditches for $2 a day, Tesla found backers to support his research into alternating current. In 1887 and 1888 he was granted more than 30 patents for his inventions and invited to address the American Institute of Electrical Engineers on his work. His lecture caught the attention of George Westinghouse, the inventor who had launched the first AC power system near Boston and was Edison's major competitor in the "Battle of the Currents."

Westinghouse hired Tesla, licensed the patents for his AC motor and gave him his own lab. In 1890 Edison arranged for a convicted New York murderer to be put to death in an AC-powered electric chair-a stunt designed to show how dangerous the Westinghouse standard could be.

Buoyed by Westinghouse's royalties, Tesla struck out on his own again. But Westinghouse was soon forced by his backers to renegotiate their contract, with Tesla relinquishing his royalty rights.

In the 1890s Tesla invented electric oscillators, meters, improved lights and the high-voltage transformer known as the Tesla coil. He also experimented with X-rays, gave short-range demonstrations of radio communication two years before Guglielmo Marconi and piloted a radio-controlled boat around a pool in Madison Square Garden. Together, Tesla and Westinghouse lit the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and partnered with General Electric to install AC generators at Niagara Falls, creating the first modern power station.

Nikola Tesla's Failures, Death and Legacy

In 1895 Tesla's New York lab burned, destroying years' worth of notes and equipment. Tesla relocated to Colorado Springs for two years, returning to New York in 1900. He secured backing from financier J.P. Morgan and began building a global communications network centered on a giant tower at Wardenclyffe, on Long Island. But funds ran out and Morgan balked at Tesla's grandiose schemes.

Tesla lived his last decades in a New York hotel, working on new inventions even as his energy and mental health faded. His obsession with the number three and fastidious washing were dismissed as the eccentricities of genius. He spent his final years feeding-and, he claimed, communicating with-the city's pigeons.

Tesla died in his room on January 7, 1943. Later that year the U.S. Supreme Court voided four of Marconi's key patents, belatedly acknowledging Tesla's innovations in radio. The AC system he championed and improved remains the global standard for power transmission.

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Serbian-American engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transmission and application of electric power. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology. Though he was famous and respected, he was never able to translate his copious inventions into long-term financial success-unlike his early employer and chief rival, Thomas Edison.