Packback Question #5 Due Sunday, 5/1/2022 at 11:59pm:
1. Discussion questions will be pinned for your required reading/viewing. You are required to read/view the posted assignment and respond to the listed questions according to your personal commentary and/or opinion via discussion feed on PACKBACK located on CANVAS. Please DO NOT RESTATE what is said but talk about how it influences your life (whether past, present, or future).
2. Ask 1 question related to the current discussion. 150words
3. Respond to 1 classmates’ posts and provide constructive feedback regarding their responses. 100 words
Consider the following website:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/648542/inventions-changed-world
The international aspect of design and how different countries’ needs and wants should be factored in are necessary when creating something universal. Please choose one of the inventions mentioned and talk about the multinational/international component can be applied to the design. In other words, what makes this item so versatile that it could span across cultures and even time.
classmate’s post
From the article, The Stories Behind 20 Inventions That Changed the World, one of the inventions listed is the aquarium. The first a glass aquarium to keep fish in was invented in 1832 by Jeanne Villepreux-Power, a post-seamstress and scientist who wanted to study live specimens instead of dead ones. She wanted to find a way to keep Marine life alive outside the ocean, so she created three different types of aquariums. One for indoor study, one for shallow water and one to be anchored to the ocean. From these different aquariums she was able to make several discoveries about certain species repairing their own shells as well as repopulating rive fish in aquariums. Two decades after her invention, the first public aquarium opened in London 1853. Shortly after this opening, P.T. Barnum built an aquarium inside his Barnum’s American Museum in New York, which unfortunately burned down in 1865.
Aquariums still to this are listed daily all across the world, what makes aquariums so loved all around the world is that fact that aquariums can help with conservation efforts and protect endangered species anywhere around the world. Besides, entertainment purposes, these tanks are able to be homes for hundreds and thousands of different species. Design wise, aquariums are practical, easy to be translated across cultures and serve purposes for scientific research across the world. Aquariums can store local species which can be easy for local visitors to understand, but they can also hold species that are not so typically seen to educate, inform and rescue nearby species for visitors to see.