HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT: pre-historic times = food, stones, clothes from fur,
later wheel, water mills, windmills, printing press… and inventions of nowadays
IMPORTANT
inventors: J. Watt (the steam engine), Edison (the electric light bulb), M. Faraday (the electric motor), Daimler & Benz (the first
petrol driven car), J. Gutenberg (printing press), Nobel (dynamite), Diesel (diesel motor), Volta (battery), Bell (phone), Pleischel (e-mail),
Einstein (theory of relativity), Marie & P. Curie (Radium, Polonium), Rőntgen (X-rays), Fleming (penicillin)…
IMPORTANT INVENTIONS: wheel, electricity, phone, penicillin, X-rays, internet, mobile phone, radio
waves, freezer, microwave oven, heating, car, aeroplane… + choose one = subjective reasons why is … the most important invention
SCIENTISTS: have to be honest, clever, no misuse – no like it was during WW2 – nuclear bomb Hiroshima & Nagasaki, responsibility, hardworking – Chernobyl nuclear power crash – many people died because of wrong management… Scientists should work on research of renewable sources, solar energy…
PEOPLE & MODERN INVENTIONS: inventions helped us,
made life easier, but we are more lazy – TV, DVD, PC, internet, mobile phone, satellites… everything easier but we forget on natural things,
movement, no time for our family… Pesticides und fertilisers to get more crops – pests (škodcovia) and weed (burina) more immune, chemicals in
food, genetic modified foodstuff. New technologies - hard work done by machines = people redundant und unemployed…
INTERNET: world is closer, fast communication, new learning system, Skype, Messenger…
MEDICINE: many inventions, new medicines, cure methods, exact operations thanks to microsurgery, !! genetic cloning – sheep Dolly, human clones prohibited