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Unit 1 Great scientists -----By Joyce Alexander Bell electricity Thomas Edison the First telephone Wright Brothers the electric Lamp Madame Curie black holes in Universe Franklin Theory of Gravity Steven Hawking the First Plane Elbert Einstein Radium Isaac Newton the Theory of Relativity Scientists Contributions: Unit 1 Great Scientists Do you know the great scientists? 1.Who invented the first modern steam engine? James Watt (瓦特) 2.Who discovered radium? Madame Curie 3. Who is the inventor of electric light bulb(电灯)? Thomas Edison 4.Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened? Zhang Heng 5.Who is the father of super hybrid rice? Yuan Longping 6. Do you know who defeated “King Cholera”? John Snow 1.Which scientist discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float? Archimedes (287-212 BC) an ancient Greek mathematicianphysicist) 2.Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed? Charles Darwin (1808-1882) British author of The Origin of Species “father of modern biology” 7.Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people? Last Supper Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian artist 8.Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe underground? Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829)British Miniature Miners Safety Lamp 10.Who put forward a theory about black holes? Stephen Hawking (1942--) a British astronomer John Snow is a well-known doctor in the 19th century in London and he defeated “King Cholera”. Do you know what kind of disease is cholera? It is a kind of terrible disease caused by drinking dirty water and it caused a lot of deaths in the old times and it was very difficult to defeat. Cholera: It begins in the stomach and a severe case can lead to death without immed