Thursday, October 25, 2007

October 25 Blog

1. My topic is when was the first "water balloon" devised and who is credited as the inventor.

2. Some of the search terms that could be used are: "origin" and "water balloon." The words "first" and "water balloon" could also be used together. Another possible combination is "history of" and "water balloon."

3. A possible database to use is Academic Search Premier, but besides that none seemed to go back far enough chronologically to answer my question. I examined many of the other databases' descriptions but none of them related to my topic. The majority of them were for economics, politics and mathematics surprisingly.

1 comment:

Aline said...

You have some good ideas for terms, but I would stay away from "history of." I would just use "history." Usually, the prepositions don't help. "History" might be combined in other ways than with that preposition in particular.