Monday, January 13, 2025

Eureka! Poems About Inventors

I just found a wonderful book of poetry by Joyce Sidman called Eureka: Poems About Inventors.  Here is everyone who is included:


"The Tapestry of the Past"

    Prehistory - the discovery of clay

    An Evening Among Peach Blossoms - invention of paper by Ts'ai Lun

    Winged Words - Johann Gutenberg's printing press

    Wizard - Leonardo da Vinci


"The Age of Invention"

    Those Fabulous Frenchmen - French balloonists in the 1700s

      Joseph Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier
      Jacques Charles
      Sebastien Lenormand
      Jean Baptiste Meusnier
      Jean-Pierre Blanchard
      Francois Pilatre de Rozier

    Food of the Gods - the first chocolate bar

      François-Louis Cailler

    Ode to Spode - invention of the dishwasher

      Josephine Garis Cochrane

    There Is a Craving - Dr. Sara J. Baker, champion of children's health

    The Real McCoy - invention of the self-lubricated engine

      Elijah McCoy


"A Light Interlude"

    Do Ya Know 'Em? - inventors whose names have become synonymous with their inventions

      James Watt
      Alessandro Volta
      Samuel Morse
      Hans Wilhelm Geiger
      Louis Braille
      Louis Pasteur
      Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
      Rudolf Diesel
      Amelia Bloomer
      Charles Macintosh
      Jules Leotard
      Joseph-Marie Jacquard
      Levi Strauss
      John McAdam
      Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
      Sylvester Graham
      John Montagu, earl of Sandwich
      Thomas Crapper


"Dawn of the Modern Age"

    The Light -- Ah! The Light - Marie Curie

    A Length of Pink Ribbon - invention of the bra

      Mary Caresse Crosby

    Cockleburs - invention of Velcro

      George De Mestral

    Walt Tells It Like It Is - invention of the Frisbee

      Walter Morrison

    This Is My Life - Nobel Prize-winning scientists Barbara McClintock

    Enquire Within - invention of the World Wide Web

      Tim Berners-Lee


I like to do a block on Famous Inventors in 2nd grade, so I'm happy to have this new resource!


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