HITS

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HITS

• Humans Innovating Technology Series

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Day 1

• Technology All the knowledge and human actions
  that people use to create the human-built world
• Quote The production of too many useful things
  results in too many useless people.  Karl Marx

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Day 2

• Creativity Using mental powers to take existing
  objects and combine them in different ways for
  new purposes
• Quote ERICH FROMM Creativity requires the
  courage to let go of certainties.

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Day 3

• Invention Process of creating a new, unique
  item
• Quote Necessity, the mother of invention.
  George Farquhar

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Day 4

• Industry the organized action of making goods
  and services for sale
• Quote If GM had kept up with technology like
  the computer industry has, we would all be
  driving 25 cars that got 1000 MPG
• Bill Gates

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Day 5

• Innovation Improving the design or function of
  an existing product
• Quote "When all think alike, then no one is
  thinking."Walter Lipman

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Day 6

• Seed drill invented by Jethro Tull it allowed
  farmers to easily plant seeds in straight rows
• Quote Nothing is particularly hard if you
  divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford

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Day 7

• Inventor someone who is the first to think of
  or make something
• Quote Inventing is the combination of brains
  and materials the more brains you use, the less
  material you need.
• Charles F. Kettering

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Day 8

• Enclosure Movement Enclosure is the process by
  which common land is taken into fully private
  ownership and use.

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Day 9

• Steam engine external-combustion engine in
  which heat is used to raise steam which either
  turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and
  down in a cylinder
• Did you know? The most important development of
  the industrial revolution, James Watts steam
  engine allowed for factories to operate
  independent of water power and led to great
  improvements in transportation (the railroads).

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Day 22

• Engineering Design Process A process in which a
  challenge is identified, ideas are explored,
  plans are created and developed, tests are
  performed, and solutions are presented.

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Day 23 Flight

• Aviation The operation of aircraft. There are
  three types of aviation general, commercial and
  military.
• Did you know? Amelia Earhart was the first
  female to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone
  (1932).

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Day 24

• Fuselage
• The body of the plane
• Did you know? In 1937 Amelia Earhart disappeared
  over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly
  around the world.

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Day 25

• Airfoils
• The wings of a plane.
• Did you know? Wing walking was once a popular
  attraction at air shows.

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Day 26

• Cabin The part of the airplane in which the
  passengers sit.
• Did you know? Leonardo da Vinci designed a flying
  machine in the 15th century .

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The World of Aviation

• You will be assigned one of these words. Use the
  Internet to define the word. Then illustrate the
  word so it will be easier to remember the
  definition.
• WORDS TO KNOW
• drag
• fin
• force
• gravity
• lift
• propeller
• propulsion
• rotor
• thrust