Question

Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by

What can you conclude about Barton from the excerpt?
Dean Kamen.
When I was twelve years old and Barton, my older
O He was interested in solving medical mysteries at
brother, was around fifteen, we took over the family
rather early age.
basement. At first, I made a darkroom for developing
He did not understand why Dean would be
pictures, and Bart was using it as his lab where he was
squeamish about the blood.
raising about one hundred white rats, removing their
• He went on to become a very famous and successful
thymus glands, and trying to figure out the glands'
doctor.
dysfunction. He wanted pictures taken of his experiment,
doing the surgery on rats, and since I already had a
• He had a severe dislike for rats and all other kinds of
rodents.
darkroom, I took the
pictures, though somewhat
reluctantly. I didn't like the blood.I don’t know the answer

Answer 1

• He was highly interested in medical science from an early age.

• He was experimenting with thymus glands on rats at a young age.

• He had a brother who helped him in his experiments.

• He was able to convince his brother to take pictures of the medical experiments.