Thursday, February 13, 2014

Bicycle by Anthony

It is a  vehicle that has 2 wheels and is moved by foot pedals.

Kirck Macmillan was the person who invented the bicycle but he did not patent it, therefore somebody else was credited for inventing the bicycle.                                                                           He was born  on September 2, 1812 in Keir, Scotland United Kindgdom. The name of her wife is Elsie Goldie and he had six children.                                                                                                           He did a variety of jobs.

He died  on 26 of January,1878.











Today lots of people ride a bicycle. It is a cheap means of transport .

John Logie by Amaia

                                                        THE TELEVISION
                                                           JOHN LOGIE

John Logie Baird invented the televison, in 1924. He was the first person who televised human faces.
He was born on August 14, 1888 in Helensburgh, Scotland, and he died on June 14, 1946 ( aged 57) in Sussex, England. He was Scottish.
He was a scientist, an engineer and an inventor. He had a  a wife Margaret, Diana daughter and Malcom son.

The first TV scan, transmited and reproduced an imaged had a electronic camera and a display tube.
John hated school. When he was 12 he made his own telephone. 
John received a diploma course in a electrical engineering at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College.
 Thanks to him, nowadays we get to enjoy watching TV.

                                                       THE TV BY AMAIA

Basketball by Paula

                                                                      BASKETBALL 

 BORN: November 6, 1861 in Canada.

DIED: November 28, 1939 at the age of 78 in Kansas.

NATIONALITY: Canadian.

OCCUPATION:PE Professor and coach

FAMILY: 2 wives and 5 children.


Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The idea is to shoot one ball trough a hoop to a backboard at each end.Basketball was originaly played with a soccer ball. The first balls made specifically for basketball were brown. In the late 1950s Tony Hinkle introduced the orange ball.In early December 1891  James Naismith ,a physical professor invented the basketball .He was born in Canada and he attended  McGill in Montreal. James was the oldest child of Margaret  and Naismith, two Scottish immigrants.James married Maude Evelyn in Springfield, USA. They have 5 children. James moved on to work at the YMCA school. After chaining the peach baskets for open hoop nets, James Naismith soon wrote thirteen official rules of the game. Naismith suffered a major brain hemorrhage on November 19th the same year and died nine days later in his home.