Jacob J

5-12-11

Period 7

# 23

Music: Free Play Music, Feed On Me, 6/1/2011, www.freeplaymusic.com

Lemelson MIT, The “Idaho” Potato,

5/16/11, http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/burbank.html

The “Idaho” potato

• There are 110 calories in one Idaho potato• Harvest 2007 produced 13 billion pounds of

potato• The Idaho potato contains 2 grams of protein• The Idaho potato contains several different

vitamins• One Idaho potato weighs around 5.3 ounces• The Idaho potato is 80% water and 20% solid

Luther Burbank

• Luther Burbank had only an elementary education

• He conducted more than 3000 experiments

• His greatest success was the Idaho potato• At the age of 21, Burbank purchased 17

acres of land to test more experiments