UMBRELLA

HOW WAS UMBRELLA CREATED

• Protect them when wet
• Protect them when sunny
• Made from bamboo and oil paper
• Oil paper repels water

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WHO INVENTED IT

• Ancient china
• No specific person

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

• Made in 3500BC
• Latin word umbros-shade or shadow
• 19th century -fashion states that they should be held in the middle of your body

IMPORTANT THEN/NOW

• Provides protection from the sun
• Helps you stay dry

IMPACT ON WORLD

• Many factories- a city in China has 1,000 factories
• Protect from the sun
• Don't get as wet
• More jobs

CHANGES MADE

• Made it with steel rods to hold it up
• Some have flashlights
• Some are smaller
• Some have a dome shape

HOW HAS OUR PERSPECTIVE CHANGED

• They were smarter than we relized
• Advanced civilization
• Helps us stay dry and out of the sun

SOURCES:

• umbrellahistory.net
• google.sites.umbrellas.com
• inventors.about.com