Great minds

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Great minds thinks alike.
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The Paperclip

• When Johann Vaaler patented his paperclip in
  1901, there already were similar designs by
  William Middlebrook and Cornelius Brosnan.
• Vaaler is credited with being the first to design
  a paperclip because of drawings he made as early
  as 1899.

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Calculus

• In 1669, the principles of differential calculus
  were determined by Sir Isaac Newton in England
  and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in Germany at about
  the same time.
• The name is derived from the Latin word for
  "pebble," referring to the use of pebbles for
  counting.

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The Telephone

• One hour before Alexander Graham Bell registered
  his patent for the telephone in 1876, Elisha Grey
  patented his design. After years of litigation,
  the patent went to Bell.

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Flying Machines

• At 1035 am on Friday 17 December 1903, Orville
  Wright took the Flyer that he and his brother
  Wilbur built into the air for what has come to be
  known as the first powered flight.
• Earlier, unbeknownst to them, Gustave Whitehead
  and Richard Pearse were also experimenting with
  flying machines.
• Who actually took first to the sky remains a
  controversy.

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Do great minds really think alike?
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Great Minds Think Alike

• This common saying is actually an idiom, a
  humorous expression that is used when you found
  out someone else was thinking about the same
  thing as you were.

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Great Minds Think Alike

• If you say, "Great minds think alike," you say,
  jokingly, that you and someone else must be very
  intelligent or great because both of you thought
  of the same thing or agree on something.

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Next questions

• What makes a mind great?
• How do you define a great thinker?
• Someone with a high I.Q.?
• Someone with a college education?

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• Are we born to be great thinkers?
• Who do you know that you think is a great
  thinker?
• Who always has amazing ideas?
• Who comes up with solutions to problems no one
  else thinks of?

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Do great minds really think alike?
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Theres only one way to find out.

• Study someone considered to be a great mind.
• What questions do you think youll need to answer
  to find out if great minds think alike?

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G.E.E.K.
WEEK
2006
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To answer the question, Do great minds think
alike? we need to get to know a GEEK or two!
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• G.E.E.K. stands for
• Greatly
• Educated
• Emitter of
• Knowledge
• And its an honor to be one!

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G.E.E.K.S

• Benjamin Franklin
• Galileo Galilei
• Marie Curie
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Thomas Edison
• John Dalton
• Michael Faraday

• Albert Einstein
• Robert Boyle
• Rene Descartes
• Daniel Bernouilli
• Nicholaus Copernicus
• Leonardo Da Vinci