Lynnwood Elementary School

Encyclopedia Britannica Creating a Timeline

• Alexander Graham Bell - Invented the telephone.
• Rachel Carson - Founder of environmental science.
• George Washington Carver - Botanist who was called the "farmers best friend."
• Francis Crick and James Watson - Discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.
• Marie Curie - Physicist who discovered radioactivity.
• Leonardo da Vinci - Inventor and artist from the Renaissance.
• Thomas Edison - Invented the light bulb, phonograph, and the motion picture.
• Albert Einstein - Came up with the Theory of Relativity and the equation E=mc².
• Henry Ford - Invented the Model T Ford, the first mass produced car.
• Ben Franklin - Inventor and Founding Father of the United States.
• Robert Fulton - Built the first commercially successful steamboat.
• Galileo - First used the telescope to view the planets and stars.
• Jane Goodall - Studied chimpanzees in the wild for many years.
• Johannes Gutenberg - Invented the printing press.
• Stephen Hawking - Discovered Hawking Radiation and wrote A Brief History in Time.
• Antoine Lavoisier - Father of modern chemistry.
• James Naismith - Invented the sport of basketball.
• Isaac Newton - Discovered the theory of gravity and the three laws of motion.
• Louis Pasteur - Discovered pasteurization, vaccines, and founded the science of germ theory.
• Eli Whitney- Invented the cotton gin.
• The Wright Brothers - Invented the first airplane.

• Astronomer - Studies the planets, stars, and galaxies.
• Botanist - Studies plant life.
• Chemist - Studies chemistry and the behavior, properties, and composition of matter.
• Cytologist - Studies cells.
• Ecologist - Studies the relationship between living organisms and the environment.
• Entomologist - Studies insects.
• Geneticist - Studies genes, DNA, and the hereditary characteristics of living organisms.
• Geologist - Studies the properties of matter that makes up Earth as well as the forces that shaped it.
• Marine biologist - Studies the living organisms that live in the ocean and other bodies of water.
• Microbiologist - Studies microscopic life forms such as bacteria and protists.
• Meteorologist - Studies the Earth's atmosphere including the weather.
• Nuclear physicist - Studies the interactions and make up of the atom.
• Ornithologist - Studies birds.
• Paleontologist - Studies prehistoric life and fossils including dinosaurs.
• Pathologist - Studies diseases caused by pathogens such as bacteria and viruses.
• Seismologist - Studies earthquakes and the movements of the Earth's crust.
• Zoologist - Studies animals.

STEP #1: IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF TIME LINE YOU WOULD LIKE

Time Lines can run horizontal or vertical. Choose the type of card you would like to make below.

Horizontal Time Line (Up to 6 Events) 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905	Vertical Time Line (Up to 9 Events) Title 2000 Event 1 2005 Event 2 2010 Event 3 2015 Event 4 2020 Event 5 2025 Event 6 2030 Event 7 2035 Event 8 2040 Event 9
>Click Here to Make This Time Line	>Click Here to Make A Vertical Time Line

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