https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/9lpzi6cu7ia4 en-us 2019-10-07 16:34:18 UTC 2024-07-16 02:18:51 UTC hello@padlet.com 822861 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/9lpzi6cu7ia4/wish/395661482 Elias Howe was an American inventor best known his creation of the modern lock stitch sewing machine. For five years Howe spent all his spare time in the development of a practical sewing machine, and in 1846 he was granted a patent for it.  He moved to England and worked for £5 a week to perfect his machine for use in sewing leather and similar materials. As his financial condition worsened, he managed to send his family back to the United States, but when he finally returned destitute, he found his wife dying. 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.
He was born on July 9, 1819 in Spencer MA , he passed away on October 3, 1867 in Brooklyn New York.
Source:https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elias-Howe]]> 2019-10-09 15:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/9lpzi6cu7ia4/wish/395661482 822861 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/9lpzi6cu7ia4/wish/395667767 Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885. Bell was the true pioneer of the telephone, he secured exclusive rights to the technology and launched the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Ultimately, the talented scientist held more than 18 patents for his inventions and work in communications.By 1877, the Bell Telephone Company, which today is known as AT&T, was created. In 1915, Bell made the first transcontinental phone call to Watson from New York to San Francisco.
Born : March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Died: August 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh .  
Source:https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/alexander-graham-bell]]> 2019-10-09 15:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/9lpzi6cu7ia4/wish/395667767 822861 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/9lpzi6cu7ia4/wish/395928546 Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, and along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended as one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician. Sholes was a firm believer in mass communication, he felt that people could not reach their full potential until they could be brought closer together in thought. Sholes approved of every new way of communicating that came along. While living in Milwaukee, Sholes would often spend time at C.F. Kleinsteuber's machine shop, which was a meeting-place and workshop for amateur inventors. Working with another printer, he developed a machine that consecutively numbered railway tickets and bank notes.
February 14, 1819, Mooresburg PA
Died: February 17, 1890, Milwaukee WI.
Source:https://biography.yourdictionary.com/christopher-latham-sholes ]]> 2019-10-10 01:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/9lpzi6cu7ia4/wish/395928546 822861 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/9lpzi6cu7ia4/wish/395930576 Andrew Carnegie kar-NAY-gee was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.Carnegie worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory as a boy before rising to the position of division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859. In the early 1870's, he entered the steel business, and over the next two decades became a dominant force in the industry. In 1901, he sold the Carnegie Steel Company to banker John Pierpont Morgan for $480 million. 
Born : November 25, 1835, Dunfermline ,United Kingdom 
Died : August 11, 1919, Lenox Ma 
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/andrew-carnegie ]]> 2019-10-10 01:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/9lpzi6cu7ia4/wish/395930576 822861 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/9lpzi6cu7ia4/wish/395932870 Oliver Evans was an American inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam.Building a factory outside Philadelphia and adapting five machines, including conveyors, elevators, and weighing scales, he created a production line in which all movement throughout the mill was automatic.In 1801 he built in Philadelphia a stationary engine that turned a rotary crusher to produce pulverized limestone for agricultural purposes. The engine that became associated with his name was an original adaptation of the existing steam engine; Evans placed both the cylinder and the crankshaft at the same end of the beam instead of at opposite ends, as had been done previously. 
Born: September 13, 1755 , Newport DE 
Died : April 15 1819 New York NY 
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Evans]]> 2019-10-10 02:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/9lpzi6cu7ia4/wish/395932870