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Inventions - What Does It Do?

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Inventions - What Does It Do?

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sleepless, crashed, planes, schools, nights, works, kids, look, reach, react, building, study, plane, picture, this, brothers

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Inventions - What Does It Do? By Mary Perrin

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¹     Look at this picture! Can you tell what it is? It is a thing-a-ma-bob that turns water fountains into lemonade fountains. I have had many sleepless nights and worked many hours to invent this. So far I've only got it drawn on paper. I am sure it will work. I bet school kids across America would love to put this device on their schools' water fountains. I wonder what I should call it. Can you think of a name for this invention? Inventions take time. They take a lot of thought. Inventing something new can be very exciting. The hardest part is building it and making sure it works right. The Wright brothers were the first to fly an airplane. They did not successfully fly the first plane they made. They made many planes. Many planes they crashed. .....
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