Activity 1.7 What Is It?
For Activity 1.7, we watched the video, The Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century, which as implied in the title showed us the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century. Below are the questions that I was required to answer for this activity, my answers to them and the video, The Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century.
Questions
1. Pick one of the inventions from the video
2. Provide and explanation of that invention
3. Evaluate that invention (pluses and minuses)
4. Brainstorm ways that you could make it better
2. Provide and explanation of that invention
3. Evaluate that invention (pluses and minuses)
4. Brainstorm ways that you could make it better
Answers
1. The airplane
2. The airplane is a method of transporting a varying number of passengers from one place to another faster than by both car and boat.
3. The pluses of the airplane are that it's faster than both the car and the boat, that it can carry a large number of people, and that it can take people practically anywhere. Despite the pluses of the airplane there are also a few minuses to it. The minuses to the airplane are that it uses up a lot few which not only pollutes the environment but also depletes the current source for fuel. Also if something happened to an airplane while it was in midair there would be virtually no way of fixing it if the plane isn't close to a city or airport.
4. There are a few ways that I believe that I could make it better. One way that I believe the airplane could be made better is if there was a fuel efficient airplane or a hybrid airplane that could help limit the pollution of the environment and if an airplane was solar powered it would be less likely if not impossible for to simply run out of fuel. Another way that I believe that I could improve the airplane is by making it more durable so that it would be less likely to be destroyed if it crashed. My last idea to improve the airplane is to create a plane that could transport multiple people to different locations without using more fuel.
2. The airplane is a method of transporting a varying number of passengers from one place to another faster than by both car and boat.
3. The pluses of the airplane are that it's faster than both the car and the boat, that it can carry a large number of people, and that it can take people practically anywhere. Despite the pluses of the airplane there are also a few minuses to it. The minuses to the airplane are that it uses up a lot few which not only pollutes the environment but also depletes the current source for fuel. Also if something happened to an airplane while it was in midair there would be virtually no way of fixing it if the plane isn't close to a city or airport.
4. There are a few ways that I believe that I could make it better. One way that I believe the airplane could be made better is if there was a fuel efficient airplane or a hybrid airplane that could help limit the pollution of the environment and if an airplane was solar powered it would be less likely if not impossible for to simply run out of fuel. Another way that I believe that I could improve the airplane is by making it more durable so that it would be less likely to be destroyed if it crashed. My last idea to improve the airplane is to create a plane that could transport multiple people to different locations without using more fuel.