https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/gsxii4m4hkak Made with an aura of mystery en-us 2018-10-16 20:34:06 UTC 2026-02-16 21:35:53 UTC hello@padlet.com 3784891 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/gsxii4m4hkak/wish/293597745 Elias Howe is the person that invented the sewing machine. Elias was born July 9, 1819. He was born in Spencer, Massachusetts and he died in Brooklyn in 1867. Howe was interested in machinery since childhood, he worked in a cotton machinery factory in Lowell ,Massachusetts. For five years Howe spent all his spare time making the sewing machine, and in 1846 he was granted a patent for it. The machine didn't attract attention in the Untied States so he sold the patent rights in England for 1,250.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elias-Howe

]]> 2018-10-16 20:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/gsxii4m4hkak/wish/293597745 3784891 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/gsxii4m4hkak/wish/293603229 John Deere was born February 7, 1804 in Rutland, Vermont. He went to public school and began his career as a blacksmith apprentice at age 17. He spent the next 12 years trading in towns around Vermont. In 1838 after some   experimentation he crafted a new kind of plow and sold his first one. The company's worth had climbed more than 40 billion by 2012.
Source:https://www.biography.com/people/john-deere-9269591

]]> 2018-10-16 20:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/gsxii4m4hkak/wish/293603229 3784891 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/gsxii4m4hkak/wish/293605912  Alexander Graham Bell was born March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bell followed his his grandfather and his father to become a teacher for the deaf. Bell was more keen on developing a voice transmitting device, which he would later call the telephone. The device allowing for multiple messages to be sent over wire was one of the most exciting innovations of the day. Bell was awarded a patent on the device on March 7, 1876.
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/alexander-graham-bell

]]> 2018-10-16 21:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/gsxii4m4hkak/wish/293605912 3784891 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/gsxii4m4hkak/wish/294185099 Oliver Evans was born on Sept. 13, 1755 near Newport, Del. He attacked another major industrial production problem  in 1784, at the age of 29. He built a stationary engine that turned a rotary crusher to produce pulverized limestone for agricultural purposes. He had engines doing several other kinds of work, including sowing grain, driving sawmills etc. Evans’ last great work, completed in 1817, was a 24-horsepower high-pressure engine for a waterworks.
Source:https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Evans
 

]]> 2018-10-18 04:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/gsxii4m4hkak/wish/294185099 3784891 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/gsxii4m4hkak/wish/294200450 Edwin Laurentine Drake  was born March 29, 1819 in Greenville, New York. Drake was raised on a farm and worked as a hotel and dry-goods clerk. He became a conductor but a few years later he had to retire for health reasons. Stockholders formed a new company, the Seneca Oil Company, sold some stock to Drake. In 1870, after years of poverty, he returned to Pennsylvania, where he was eventually awarded a pension by the state legislature.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edwin-Laurentine-Drake

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