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Historical Technology Applications Review

4.2 examine and describe the historical application of technology in the Atlantic region

What Am I?

Instructions: Match each description (application) with the correct resources/function. Also match each description with the correct invention.

R/F / I / Application / Resources / Function / Invention
  1. A cleaner and less expensive burning fuel than whale oil
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  1. A high-frequency alternator-transmitterconnected to an aerial with a microphone in the transmission line
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  1. Vacuum Jacket

  1. A possible aid to airplane takeoff from water and to help things heavier than water lift out of water
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  1. A working transmitter with a membrane capable of varying electronic currents and a receiver that would reproduce these variations in audible frequencies
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  1. Trans-oceanic Wireless Communication

  1. Made it reproduce sound from wax instead of tinfoil
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  1. An airtight iron cylinder fitted closely around the torso and a suction pump forced air in and out of the patient’s lungs
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  1. Telephone

  1. Put together in an attempt to find the bullet in the body of a President
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  1. Box attached to a flatbed and to a wrench to make it lift up and go down
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  1. Radio Transmitted Voice

  1. To be used by ships at sea and to displace the excess of telephone lines
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  1. Made by an oscillator, wire, coherer, telegraph key, and by a telegraph register
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  1. Photophone

  1. To broadcast human voices and sounds without the use of wires
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  1. Made by refining a liquid fuel from coal
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  1. Phonograph / Graphophone

  1. To carry very heavy things long distances
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  1. Made of steel tube, bamboo, friction tape, wire, wood, Japanese silk, and a 35hp V8 engine
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  1. Metal Detector

  1. To help people with respiratory problems breathe
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  1. Transmitted articulated sounds and human voices on a beam of light
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  1. Kerosene

  1. To improve the telegraph and help the hearing impaired
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  1. Used wing-like structure mounted on struts below the hull of a boat, which lifts the boat partially out of the water during forward motion, in order to reduce drag
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  1. Hydrofoil

  1. To solve the problems of aviation and because of the desire to fly
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  1. When near metal, its electric circuit unbalances and starts the receiver humming
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  1. Dump Truck

  1. To talk to people who are far away, and do it wirelessly
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  1. wax-coated cardboard cylinders, and a cutting stylus that moved from side to side in a "zig zag" pattern
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  1. Airplane