https://padlet.com/21vanessa_weickum/amsp5xqkcjl0 Made with big dreams en-us 2018-01-11 20:50:55 UTC 2023-04-25 03:52:50 UTC hello@padlet.com 21vanessa_weickum https://padlet.com/21vanessa_weickum/amsp5xqkcjl0/wish/220794109 In 1805 Oliver Evans successfully invented the first vapor-compression refrigerator. 
( Armytage, Walter Harry Green. “Oliver Evans.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 29 Dec. 2017, www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Evans.In-text Citation )

]]> 2018-01-11 21:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/21vanessa_weickum/amsp5xqkcjl0/wish/220794109 21vanessa_weickum https://padlet.com/21vanessa_weickum/amsp5xqkcjl0/wish/221135895 Oliver Evans was born in Delaware. ¨As a young man was apprenticed to a wheelwright.¨  That probably gave him an advantage  and  eye for making things. He got the support from being a wheelwrights´ apprentice.  ("Oliver Evans." World of Invention, Gale, 2006. Biography in Context)]]> 2018-01-12 21:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/21vanessa_weickum/amsp5xqkcjl0/wish/221135895 21vanessa_weickum https://padlet.com/21vanessa_weickum/amsp5xqkcjl0/wish/221887043 My citations are under the content.]]> 2018-01-16 20:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/21vanessa_weickum/amsp5xqkcjl0/wish/221887043 21vanessa_weickum https://padlet.com/21vanessa_weickum/amsp5xqkcjl0/wish/221889289 I picked Evans because  he made one of the first fridges based on vapors. People all over the world are lucky enough to keep foods and drinks longer. We don´t really care or know how fridges are made. Only that they come from name brands.  (Picture citation: No. 285: Oliver Evans, www.uh.edu/engines/epi285.htm. )]]> 2018-01-16 21:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/21vanessa_weickum/amsp5xqkcjl0/wish/221889289 21vanessa_weickum https://padlet.com/21vanessa_weickum/amsp5xqkcjl0/wish/222833106 This great inventor has changed many lives in many ways. He's helped with the evolution fridges. He's not only built fridges but helped build other things like industrial automation. He gave all he could while he was alive. He's a very smart person.
(upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Oliver_Evans_-_Automated_mill.jpg. )

]]> 2018-01-19 15:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/21vanessa_weickum/amsp5xqkcjl0/wish/222833106 21vanessa_weickum https://padlet.com/21vanessa_weickum/amsp5xqkcjl0/wish/222884849 "People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it"   (“Oliver Evans Quotes.” BrainyQuote, Xplore, www.brainyquote.com/quotes/oliver_evans_198470 ) I thought that the irony in this quote was that people criticize things that they don't have knowledge of.

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