Senin, 13 April 2009

TWO GREAT MEN OF SCIENCE

George Washington Carver and Thomas Alva Edison were born during the nineteenth century.Carver who was black,was born in Missouri in 1864,Although his prents were slaves.he was able to get a college education, after he graduated from IOWA state college. He developed many important new methods of farming,he also discovered many new uses for farm products. his discoveries included 300 uses for peanuts and 200 uses for sweet potatoes.

Edison who was born in OHIO in 1847 was not a good student when he was a young boy,so his parents took him out of school and his mother educated him at home. Although he hated school,he loved science. He was conducting a scientific experiment,most people know what a great scientist Edison became. His 6.000 inventions included the electric light bulb. The photograph and the mineograph machine.

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