INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES

What is an invention?

• An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. It may be an improvement upon a machine or product, or a new process for creating an object or a result.

What are the differents between inventions and discoveries?

• The invention is something that arises by applying acquired knowledge, is something that does not exist and it comes out through experimentation of any person.

• The discovery is something that exists only anyone knew and comes out through someone experienced in searches.

Five examples of inventions and five examples of discoveries

• Five discoveries: Water pressure, the law of gravity, the laws of planetary motion, the law of inertia, the radioactivity.

• Inventions: The wheel, the internal combustion engine, the spinning machine, computers, aircraft.