Heroes of invention: page 184 exercises.

Exercise 1

As regards the celebration of the Italian grate inventors, there are some simple and recurring ways of celebration, that are due to remember the inventor but also his principal inventions. The most commons ways of remembering inventors, or other important figures in science, history and literature, are:

-          Dedicate them streets, palaces, monuments and squares;

-          Building museums for the exhibition of their inventions or their writings;

-          Organization of exhibitions to highlight their actions and discoveries;

-          Remembering of their birth date;

-          Awarding of prizes that bear their name;

-          Writing of essays regarding their inventions.

Exercise 2

1 Bolton: bronze statue of Samuel Crompton

2 Birmingham: statue of Matthew Boulton, James Watt and William Murdoch

3 Coalbrookdale: world’s first iron bridge dedicated to Abraham Darby

4 Glasgow: statue of James Watt