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By studying the inventions and reading the biography of Thomas Edison, students will develop a broader view of technology and how it is both like science and unlike science. This is important because students typically do not distinguish between an engineering model of experimentation, where the goal is to produce a desirable outcome, and the scientific model of experimentation, where the goal is to understand the relation between cause and effect.