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I'm going to assign my students a short research project to investigate a great scientific achievment. They have to draw a subject out of a hat.
The more possibilities I have, the less I'm going to bang my head on a wall out of boredon as I grade the 250 projects.
I need your (yes YOUR) help. The topic needs to be moderatly easy to research (my students are not rocket scientists). For example, I considered the Turing Maching as too complicated to assign.
Here's the list so far. Any thoughts of what can be added? It's pretty darn eclectic. Engineering, chemistry, physics, whatever.
Abacus
Bathysphere
Artificial Heart
Cotton Gin
Penicillin
Polio Vaccine
Steam Engine
V2 Rocket
Printing Press
Camera Obscura
Internet
Elevator
GPS System
Air Conditioning
Bronze
Stainless Steel
Trebuchet
Gunpowder
Marine Chronometer
Ibuprofen
Typewriter
UNIVAC
The Chunnel
Large Hadron Collider
Panama Canal
Three Gorges Dam
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Manhattan Project
The Apollo Program
Skylab
Biosphere 2
Airplane
The Gemini Project
Fullerenes
The Periodic Table
Superconductors
Newton’s Laws of Motion
Hubble Telescope
Pasteurization
X-Rays
Scanning Electron Microscope
LASERs
RADAR
Blood Dialysis
MRIs