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TV opportunity!

Great Inventions is a new TV show and we are looking for young people to take part. Interested? We invite you to make a two-minute video that shows your idea for a new invention. Make sure you include:

• personal details: name, age, and address.

• the name of your invention, how you got the idea and how it works.

  You can email us your video or send it to the address shown on our website. We'll choose the ones we think are most interesting. Your prize? The chance to appear on our TV show!

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20th-century inventions

The most important modern invention has to be the mobile phone. It was only invented in the 1970s, but look at it now! Everyone has a phone. Originally, of course, phones were large and were only used to make phone calls. Now those phones are in museums! Modern mobile phones are mini-computers - you can do so much with them. you can buy very expensive phones, but you can also buy cheap models. That's why, in my view, it's the best 20th-century invention.

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3D printers

3D printers are a new kind of machine that can make everyday objects. They're amazing because they can produce different things in different materials. A 3D printer can make anything from cups and plates to plastic toys and even chocolate cakes! So how do they work? First you design a 3D object on your computer, then you connect it to a 3D printer. Press 'print' and watch it work. The printer makes the object in very thin layers, like the pages of a book - one on top of the other until you have a complete object.

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Tim Berners-Lee is the British computer scientist who is given the credit for inventing the World Wide Web.

People had been developing the internet since the 1960s. However, Tim Berners-Lee put all the ideas together to create the World Wide Web. In 1990, he produced the first version and it was put online in 1991.

He could have made a lot of money from his invention, but he decided to offer it to the world as a gift.

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What's my password?

These days we have so many computer passwords that it isn't surprising that we often forget them. That's why most people create passwords which are based on the people, places and things they know best. Using names and dates in different ways is popular. For example, combining part of your name with your date of birth. Using a childhood memory is also very common. You might use the name of the street you grew up in, or the name of your favourite teacher.

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How the light bulb changed our lives.

The simple light bulb is an invention that 1)                           [a candle didn't work, is familiar to people, provided light, people could walk, decided to stay open, invented the light bulb, it is light all night, there were no light bulbs] all over the world. When it gets dark, we simple turn on a light and we can still see the world around us and continue doing the things we want to do. But can you imagine a time when 2)                           [candeles didn't work, is familiar to people, provided light, people could walk, decided to stay open, invented the light bulb, it is light all night, there were no light bulbs]? Of course, threre were other things such as candles, which 3)                           [candles didn't work, is familiar to people, provided light, people could walk, decided to stay open, invented the light bulb, it is light all night, there were no light bulbs] in people's homes. But the light that they provided was quite weak, and there were places where 4)                           [candles didn't work, is familiar to people, provided light, people could walk, decided to stay open, invented the light bulb, it is light all night, there were no light bulbs] well, such as outside. The light bulb changed people's lives. The street outside become places where 5)                           [candles didn't work, is familiar to people, provided light, people could walk, decided to stay open, invented the light bulb, it is light all night, there were no light bulbs] safety at night, and shops could stay open later. Of course, not all the changes were good. Once there was electric light, there were factories that 6)                            [candles didn't work, is familiar to people, provided light, people could walk, decided to stay open, invented the light bulb, it is light all night, there were no light bulbes] all night, and people had to work in them. And now cities are places where 7)                           [candels didn't work, is familiar to people, provided light, people could walk, decided to stay open, invented the light bulb, it is light all night, there were no light bulbs] as well as all day. Thomas Edison, the person who                           [candeles didn't work, is familiar to people, provided light, people could walk, decided to stay open, invented the light bulb, it is light all night, there were no light bulbs] in 1879, probably had no idea where his simple invention would lead.

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Food inventions

A lot of popular food was invented              (accident). For example, a chef called George Crum was working in a restraurant in Saratoga Spring in the US. One day, a          (custom), complained about his fried potatoes. He wanted them to be fried for a        (long) time than usual and to be cut into thinner slices. Maybe Crum was tired that day because he was very       (happiness) about this! He sliced the potatoes very        (thin) and fried them for a very long time.           (Strange), the man loved them, and so, potato crisps were created! Another        (fame) example is when a pharmacist named John Pemberton was working on some medicine for people who were tired or feeling         (nerve). One of his assistants used carbonated water by mistake, not still water. The result was the fizzy drink: cola.