Inventions

Inventions

• How would you describe your relationship with technology?
• Do you follow the state-of-the-art devices?
• Has technology made our lives easier?
• Which are the modern gadgets you use?

THE CAR

• When was it created?
• How does it work? / What is needed to make it work?
• Has it suffered any innovation since it has been created?
• Do you have or have you had one? Tell your experiencie.
• How do you manage to repair it if it breaks down?

THE CAR

• It was created in 1886.
• The first car model only speeded until 11km/h and was managed by using levers, not a wheel.
• The first car got fined by speeding at 20km/h.
• The longest traffic jam was 180km long in 1980, between Paris and Lyon.

THE TELEVISION

• When was it created?
• How does it work? / What is needed to make it work?
• Has it suffered any innovation since it has been created?
• Do you have or have you had one? Tell your experiencie.
• Have you lived its evolution?

THE TELEVISION

• It was created in 1923.
• The most watched TV programs in the 30’s were the cooking shows.
• The BBC made the first TV show in 1936.

THE FAX

• When was it created?
• How does it work? / What is needed to make it work?
• Has it suffered any innovation since it has been created?
• Do you have or have you had one? Tell your experiencie.
• Has it been replaced by any other invention?

THE FAX

• It was created in 1983.
• It was firstly used by journalists.
• The word “fax” comes from “facsimile”.
• It is still being used since it has a legal support for contracts.

THE WALKMAN

• When was it created?
• How does it work? / What is needed to make it work?
• Has it suffered any innovation since it has been created?
• Do you have or have you had one? Tell your experiencie.
• Has it been replaced by any other invention?

THE WALKMAN

• It was created in 1979 by Sony.
• The company decided to stop producing it in 2010, and it could only be bought in China.
• It replaced the vinyl and it was replaced in 1984 by the discman.

THE VHS

• When was it created?
• How does it work? / What is needed to make it work?
• Has it suffered any innovation since it has been created?
• Do you have or have you had one? Tell your experiencie.
• Has it been replaced by any other invention?

THE VHS

• It was created in 1970 by JVC.
• VHS stands for Video Home System.
• It competed with the DVD drom 2000 to 2005.

THE PDA

• When was it created?
• How does it work? / What is needed to make it work?
• Has it suffered any innovation since it has been created?
• Do you have or have you had one? Tell your experiencie.
• Has it been replaced by any other invention?

THE PDA

• They first appeared in the market in 1996.
• It stands for Personal Digital Assistant.
• It was replaced by laptops and smartphones.

THE MOBILE PHONE

• When was it created?
• How does it work? / What is needed to make it work?
• Has it suffered any innovation since it has been created?
• Have you lived its evolution?
• Do you have or have you had one? Tell your experiencie.

THE MOBILE PHONE

• The first mobile call was made in 1973.
• The first text message was sent in 1992.
• The first mobile model was designed by Motorola and it weighted almost a kilo.
• Only 4% of the mobiles are recicled.
• Smartphones rose in 1992. The great smartphone revolution begins in 2005.
• The first iphone was released in 2007.

THE COMPUTER

• When was it created?
• How does it work? / What is needed to make it work?
• Has it suffered any innovation since it has been created?
• Do you have or have you had one? Tell your experiencie.
• How do you manage to repair it if it breaks down?

THE COMPUTER

• It was created by IBM in 1944.
• The laptop was created in 1981, the tablet in 2000.
• The first virus was spread in 1972.

THE DISKETTE

• When was it created?
• How does it work? / What is needed to make it work?
• Has it suffered any innovation since it has been created?
• Have you lived its evolution?
• Do you have or have you had one? Tell your experiencie.
• Pros and cons about saving documents on the cloud or in a flash drive.

THE DISKETTE

• The diskette (floppy disk) lasted for 20 years.
• They had a 360Kb capacity.

THE INTERNET

• When was it created?
• How does it work? / What is needed to make it work?
• Has it suffered any innovation since it has been created?
• Have you lived its evolution?

THE INTERNET

• It was a military project in 1969, but the public achieved to access to it in 1993.
• The first spam message was sent in 1978.
• The wifi was first used in 1999.
• Iran, the Arabic countries, North Corea, China and the USA have any kind of censorship.

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…Living in the digital society.

-Pros and cons about using technology at work & personal life.

-Inventions which made our lives more comfortable.