Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.Then Bart went off to college and I had use of the rest of the basement. I stopped doing photography and became interested in electronics. It was the early days of disco, when making music and light shows was the rage. Everyone wanted to buy a box that could connect to their stereo to create new light and sound effects. I started building boxes after school, buying components from a nearby Radio Shack, and reading up on electronic recipes for building loaders in the basement workshop. I began buying voltmeters, soldering irons, and other tools for making light organs to sell at school and in my neighborhood. I made enough money to stock more and more equipment in the family basement.
Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.I didn't officially graduate from Worcester Polytechnic Institute until years later when I was awarded their honorary Ph.D. By then I'd created and patented many successful inventions.
Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.When I was twelve years old and Barton, my older brother, was around fifteen, we took over the family basement. At first, I made a darkroom for developing pictures, and Bart was using it as his lab where he was raising about one hundred white rats, removing their thymus glands, and trying to figure out the glands' dysfunction. He wanted pictures taken of his experiment, doing the surgery on rats, and since I already had a darkroom, I took the pictures, though somewhat reluctantly. I didn't like the blood.
Which excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen expresses a fact rather than an opinion?
Which of the following statements expresses an opinion rather than a fact?
Which of the following statements expresses a fact rather than an opinion?
Read the excerpt from the introduction for "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.Invention is predominantly individualistic. Everything... comes from the lone worker who follows the fleeting inspiration of a moment and finally does something that has not been done before.This quote is from the inventor of a three-phase motor, Nikola Tesla. It fits the description in every respect of Dean Kamen, the owner of more than one hundred patents.As a young teenager in Rockville Center, New York, one of four children, whose father was a comic book artist and his mother a schoolteacher, Dean started tinkering with sound and light boxes in his bedroom, "which caused lights to go off and on, and deafening sound to come from his radio," said his mother.Their indulgent parents allowed Dean and his older brother Barton to experiment, raising as many as one hundred live rats and to set up a workshop in their basement on Long Island. Dean stocked the basement laboratory with machinery to help create new audio/visual equipment. This led to his first patent and a sizable financial reward while still in high school.
Which line from "On Becoming an Inventor" supports the idea that Dean's time at Worcester Polytechnic Institute was very useful to him even if he did not graduate?
Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.Two of Kamen's more recent inventions are the Ibot, a wheelchair that can safely climb stairs, and a self-balancing scooter, called the Segway. The Segway is battery powered and contains five gyroscopes that keep it balanced under almost any circumstance. Kamen believes it may change the way people move around in crowded cities, reducing the amount of car traffic and auto emissions in many parts of the world.
Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.Then I heard about a summer job through my uncle who was a dentist. He introduced me to one of his patients who had a business selling audio-visual equipment for big light and music shows. He was looking for some new, better equipment. I spent all summer when I was sixteen building high-powered light-controlled systems that synchronized many Kodak projectors at once, as many as sixty-four to 120 of them, and reduced the cumbersome machines from the size of a refrigerator to the size of a toaster. Not only was this invention used in theaters, but it was sold to the Museum of Natural History and the New York Planetarium to project views of the heavens on the ceiling. To make this new device I had bought every kind of electrical equipment I could find, and still had money left over.
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