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 I am an inventor! 

A)  Explain the meaning of this cartoon

B)   Why does this document illustrate the following phrase :" necessity is the mother of invention"?

C) According to you what is the greatest invention ever made? Justify.

D) Read the text and sum up the main idea. Use your own words.

During World War II, a Scottish engineer called James Wright was working for the U.S. War Production Board, trying to create an inexpensive substitute for synthetic rubber at a General Electric lab in Connecticut. When he dropped boric acid into silicone oil, he got a substance that was stretchier and bouncier than rubber, with a weird added feature: When you flattened it against a newspaper or comic-book page, it picked up a perfect copy of the print it touched

Cool though that was, Wright’s discovery turned out to be no better than the synthetic rubber that already existed. The government didn’t want his “nutty putty,” but a few years later, businessman Peter Hodgson noticed what a hit the stuff was at a party. He renamed it “Silly Putty” and marketed it as a toy, packaging it in colorful plastic eggs because he put it out around Easter time.