https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/j226lycmqqpj Made with a stroke of good luck en-us 2018-10-16 20:34:55 UTC 2026-01-28 09:12:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecoffee.png 512289 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/j226lycmqqpj/wish/293597384 John Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont, on February 7, 1804 and died on May 17, 1886, at his home in Moline. Deere developed the first commercially successful, self-scouring steel plow. Deere closely parallels the settlement and development of the Midwestern United States. By 1841, Deere was producing 100 of the plows annually. In 1858, Deere transferred leadership of the company to his son.
Source: https://www.deere.com/en/our-company/about-john-deere/past-leaders/john-deere/]]> 2018-10-16 20:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/j226lycmqqpj/wish/293597384 512289 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/j226lycmqqpj/wish/294088174 Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland and died on August 2, 1922 at his vacation home in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Bell is best known for his invention of the telephone. He received the patent for his invention in the year 1876. Outside of the telephone, one of Bell’s other famous inventions was the graphophone, patented in 1886, which was a device that could record and play back sound.
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/alexander-graham-bell]]> 2018-10-17 20:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/j226lycmqqpj/wish/294088174 512289 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/j226lycmqqpj/wish/299642815 Fulton was the son of Irish immigrants. On returning to Philadelphia, Fulton applied himself to painting and the search for a sponsor. His paintings made little impression; they showed neither the style nor the promise required to provide him more than a precarious living. Before becoming minister to France, Livingston had obtained a 20-year monopoly of steamboat navigation within the state of New York.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Fulton-American-inventor]]> 2018-11-02 01:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/j226lycmqqpj/wish/299642815 512289 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/j226lycmqqpj/wish/299642851 In 1850 he became a conductor on the New York and New Haven Railroad, but a few years later he had to retire for health reasons. He solved the problem by driving sections of pipe into the ground until bedrock was struck, and from there the drilling continued until the top of an oil deposit was reached at a depth of 69 feet on August 27, 1859. Drake drilled two more wells for the Seneca company, but he failed to patent his drill-pipe methods and never became a success in oil speculation.
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