DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS

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DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS 

A discovery is recognizing something that already exists for the first time, that nobody has found before. An invention is creating something totally new with one's own ideas and development.

For example:

 

DISCOVERIES

Penicillin 



Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic substance, Penicillin in 1928.

DNA



 James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA in 1953.

THE GRAVITY




Isaac Newton discoveries gravitational theory in 1665 or 1666 after watching an apple fall and asking why the apple fell straight down, rather than sideways or even upward


INVENTIONS

AIRPLANE



In 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright inventions airplane.

AUTOMOBILE



 In 1885 Karl Benz increased personal mobility by inventing automobiles.

TELEPHONE



in 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone spreading communication over wide areas

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