Contact lens and r-7 rocket: what they have in common
- Step 1. Contact lens — evolved from — Glasses. A lens right on the eye.
- Step 2. Glasses — evolved into — Telescope. The first telescopes were assembled by spectacle makers.
- Step 3. Telescope — includes — Space telescope. A space telescope is a telescope above the atmosphere, so air does not blur the view.
- Step 4. Space telescope — has part — Gyroscope. Pointing gyroscopes.
- Step 5. Gyroscope — is part of — V-2 rocket. A gyroscopic guidance system.
- Step 6. V-2 rocket — evolved into — R-7 rocket. The Soviet rocket programme began by studying the V-2 (the R-1 was its copy).