New Fangled Inventions: Using Colorado Historical Newspapers

Students find nothing extraordinary about the inventions of the twenty-first century: high-speed computers, camera phones, and Ipods. However, many of the commonplace items that we take for granted were invented during the era of newspapers available at the Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection (CHNC), for example the horseless carriage, toilet paper, the telephone, and the cinematograph. For this lesson, students will use a digital timeline to choose a common household item, research its history, and write an informative report to be placed in a classroom Book of Inventions. In addition, students will obtain two articles or ads from the CHNC that demonstrate how the public responded to the invention. These pieces will be analyzed, printed out, and added to the classroom book.

 

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