https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5 Inventions of the late 1800's - early 1900's en-us 2017-11-29 15:58:17 UTC 2024-06-05 09:42:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png cmar5038 https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211471165 Alexander Graham bell was born in March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, U.K., and died August 2, 1922. In life he is remembered mostly  for inventing the first practical telephone and founding the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885.

]]> 2017-11-29 16:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211471165 aeli8280 https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211471990 Charles Pillsbury is known for the invention of flour. In 1875, he was co-founder and names-sake of the Pillsbury company and was a part of the Minnesota State Senate. By 1886, Pillsbury mills produced over 10,000 barrels of flour a day. At that time of Pillsbury's arrival, four or five flour mills, deriving their power from the Falls, were small in size and ground their grain with large buhr stones. Pillsbury was employed by his uncle and soon gained part-ownership in his own mill. Mr. Pillsbury made a close and thorough study of the methods of flour milling and contemplated better results through the industry's innovative practices in flour processing.]]> 2017-11-29 16:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211471990 kgra5525 https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211472428 Thomas Edison was well known for the invention of the light bulb. He invented on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park. He originally wanted electricity to be cheap that way even the poor could afford it. This was so important to American Industrialization because it was the start of the end of the dark ages. The light bulb made life much more efficient because now we don't have to carry around candles we just flick and switch and the dark is light. ]]> 2017-11-29 16:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211472428 vsan3529 https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211473991 George Eastman is know for inventing the Kodak camera.He invented the first Kodak camera in 1888. He originally wanted the camera to be less inconvenient and easier for the average person to enjoy. His invention of the Kodak camera helped promote amateur photography on a large scale.]]> 2017-11-29 16:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211473991 aeli8280 https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211474526 Charles Goodyear was a self thought chemist and was the factorizing engineer and discovered vulcanized rubber by mixing sulfur with rubber and putting on a hot surface. He created a nitric acid treatment. Before he discovered rubber he originally owned a hardware store. His specialties were the valuable agricultural implements that his firm had been manufacturing, and after the first distrust of domestically made goods had worn away, he found himself heading a successful business. Goodyear's discovery of the vulcanization process followed five years of searching for a more stable rubber and stumbling upon the effectiveness of heating after Thomas Hancock.]]> 2017-11-29 16:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211474526 aeli8280 https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211476273 George Pullman designed and manufactured the luxury sleeping car and founded Pullman, company town, for those who helped manufacture it. People reviewed his sleepers and compared them to steamboat cabins and said they were the most luxurious way to travel. His Pullman Company also hired African-American men to staff the Pullman cars, who became known and widely respected as Pullman porters, providing elite service. Struggling to maintain profitability during an 1894 downturn in manufacturing demand, he lowered wages and required workers to spend longer hours at the plant, but did not lower prices of rents and goods in his company town.

]]> 2017-11-29 16:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211476273 kgra5525 https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211477108 Cornelius Vanderbilt is better known as the Commodore Vanderbilt was one of owners of the majority of the railroads in the late 19th century. He was raised poor but eventually became one of the wealthiest men. He invested in many of the railroads and owned New York Central Railroad. The railroads help a lot with the industrialization because it made transporting goods much faster and cheaper. ]]> 2017-11-29 16:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211477108 kgra5525 https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211486747 Elias Howe was the inventor of the sewing machine in September 10, 1846. His machine contained a needle with the eye at the point, a shuttle operating beneath the cloth to form the lock stitch, and an automatic feed. The sewing machine was a very helpful invention in the 19th century because it made it easy to make clothing. Rather than hours to make a piece of clothing, it could take half the time. ]]> 2017-11-29 16:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211486747 vsan3529 https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211487420 Gustavus Franklin Swift is know for inventing the  refrigerated railroad cars. Gustavus Swift was the owner of a butcher shop, he later joined in a partnership with James A. Hathaway. Swift believed that butchering and shipping cattle dressed beef was more efficient. He  invented the first refrigerated railroad car in 1867 but it was inadequate, he later hired an engineer  to improve his refrigerated railroad car. The refrigerated railroad car helped the cattle dealer business economically and  made transporting cattle less expensive.]]> 2017-11-29 16:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211487420 cmar5038 https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211487700 Christopher Sholes was born February 14, in 1819 in Mooresburg, PA  and died  February 17, 1890. In life he is remembered best as the "father of typewriters" even though he wasn't the one to invent it he was the one who developed the first practical commercial machine.

]]> 2017-11-29 16:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211487700 cmar5038 https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211488270 Samuel Morse was born April 27, 1791, in Charlestown, Boston, MA and died April 2, 1872. In life he was remembered mostly for his contributions to the first one-wire telegraph, and the invention of Morse code in the 1830's to the 1840's]]> 2017-11-29 16:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/211488270 vsan3529 https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/212303775 Cyrus McCormick was the inventor of the mechanical reaper. Cyrus McCormick's father was the person who came up with the mechanical reaper,after 16 years of his father working on the mechanical reaper young Cyrus McCormick picked up where his father left off and completed the mechanical reaper within 6 weeks. The mechanical reaper consist of a cutting blade, a reel to bring the grain in and a platform to receive the falling grain. The mechanical reaper had many defects including a loud clang witch would frighten the horses.Cyrus McCormick later improved the mechanical reaper and sold more than 4,000 machines by 1856. The mechanical reaper helped lower the cost hiring many laborers and lowered the cost of farming.]]> 2017-12-01 15:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/212303775 rdarrough https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/214189556 2017-12-07 16:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kgra5525/f1exicyg72g5/wish/214189556