https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bs3q57kvk1ak Made with panache en-us 2019-10-08 18:20:57 UTC 2026-01-27 18:11:16 UTC hello@padlet.com 822491 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bs3q57kvk1ak/wish/395234427 Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.]]> 2019-10-08 18:22:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bs3q57kvk1ak/wish/395234427 822491 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bs3q57kvk1ak/wish/395236242 Sir Henry Bessemer was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years from 1856 to 1950. He also played a significant role in establishing the town of Sheffield as a major industrial centre. ]]> 2019-10-08 18:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bs3q57kvk1ak/wish/395236242 822491 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bs3q57kvk1ak/wish/395237021 Edwin Laurentine Drake, also known as Colonel Drake, was an American businessman and the first American to successfully drill for oil.]]> 2019-10-08 18:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bs3q57kvk1ak/wish/395237021 822491 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bs3q57kvk1ak/wish/395240087 Samuel Slater was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" and the "Father of the American Factory System". In the UK, he was called "Slater the Traitor" because he brought British textile technology to America, modifying it for United States use.]]> 2019-10-08 18:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bs3q57kvk1ak/wish/395240087 822491 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bs3q57kvk1ak/wish/395241040 Andrew Carnegie 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. ]]> 2019-10-08 18:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/bs3q57kvk1ak/wish/395241040