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Born on Mach 29, 1819, Greenville, New York, Edwin Drake was raised on farms. He was the driller of the first productive oil well in the U.S.
Drake drilled two more wells, but failed to patent his drill-pipe methods and never became successful in oil speculation. Eventually, he was awarded a pension by the state legislature in 1870, after years of poverty. He was best known as the "Father of the Petroleum Industry" because the technology he devised for the oil well was revolutionary.
Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edwin-Laurentine-Drake
https://biography.yourdictionary.com/edwin-drake

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Christopher Sholes, born February 14, 1819, near Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, was an American Inventor. He developed the typewriter. After completing school he worked for his elder brothers where he shortly became editor of the Wisconsin Enquirer.  Sholes was attracted by the idea of a writing machine and devoted the rest of his life to the project. He encountered difficulty raising working capital for development. In 1873 he sold his patent rights for $12,000 to the Remington Arms Company. Sholes himself continued to make contributions to improving the typewriter, despite poor health during the last several years of his life.
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Latham-Sholes

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Elias Howe was born July 9, 1819, Spencer Massachusetts. He was an American inventor. His sewing machine helped revolutionize the garment manufacture in the factory and home. Howe has always been interested in machinery since childhood.
He found that, while he had been abroad, sewing machines were being widely manufactured and sold in the United States in violation of his patent. After much litigation, his rights were finally established in 1854, and from then until 1867, when his patent expired, he received royalties on all sewing machines produced in the United States.
Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elias-Howe

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Henry Bessemer was an engineer and inventor who developed the first process for manufacturing steel in 1856. He was born January 19, 1813, Charlton, Hertfordshire, England and died March 15, 1898, London. He developed other inventions, notably sugarcane-crushing machinery of advanced design, but he was soon devoted to metallurgy. In his later years, the Bessemer Process had not become a clear success until he was nearing 70 years. Bessemer continued to invent and make discoveries.
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Bessemer

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Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist born March 3, 1847, Edinburgh. He was an inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876 and founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. He did important work in communication for the deaf. During his youth, Bell was strongly influenced by his family.  Bell’s success came through his experiments in sound and the furthering of his family’s interest in assisting the deaf with communication.
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https://www.biography.com/inventor/alexander-graham-bell