https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ld02hs8t92up Alison Aguilar P:1 en-us 2019-10-07 16:47:58 UTC 2025-02-16 22:19:23 UTC hello@padlet.com 387942 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ld02hs8t92up/wish/395888135 Elias Howe was born July 9, 1819 in Spencer , Mass, US. He was an American Inventor whose sewing machine helped revolutionize garment manufacture in the factory and in the home.Howe was interested in machinery since childhood. He died October 3, 1967.  He patented his plans for the first practical sewing machine in 1846, and successfully sued Isaac Singer for the rights in 1854.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elias-Howe]]> 2019-10-09 22:47:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ld02hs8t92up/wish/395888135 387942 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ld02hs8t92up/wish/395888679 Christopher Sholes was born February 14, 1819 near Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, US. He was an American Inventor who developed the typewriter. After completing his schooling Sholes was apprenticed as a printer. He died February 17, 1890 in Milwaukee Wisconsin.  Sholes has been called the "father of the typewriter." although he did not invent it, he did develop the first practical commercial machine. Sholes also invented the Qwerty keyboard that is still in use today.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Latham-Sholes

]]> 2019-10-09 22:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ld02hs8t92up/wish/395888679 387942 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ld02hs8t92up/wish/395888752 Edwin was born March 29, 1819. He was a driller of the first productive oil well in the United States. He was raised in New York and Vermont. Drake worked as a hotel and dry-goods clerk before becoming an agent for the Boston and Albany Railroad. In 1850 he became a conductor on the New York and New Haven Railroad. Drake died November 8, 1880 in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. He only drilled three oil wells in his lifetime.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edwin-Laurentine-Drake]]> 2019-10-09 22:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ld02hs8t92up/wish/395888752 387942 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ld02hs8t92up/wish/395888846 John was born July 8, 1839. John was a American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Standard oil company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great US business trust. John was born in Richford, New York, US. He built his first oil refinery near Cleveland. By 1882 he had a near monopoly if the oil business in the US. John died May 23, 1937.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-D-Rockefeller]]> 2019-10-09 22:51:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ld02hs8t92up/wish/395888846 387942 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ld02hs8t92up/wish/395889024 John Deere was born in February 7, 1804. John Deere was an American inventor and manufacturer of agricultural equipment. In 1837 Deere started an eponymous company that went on to become an international powerhouse. John Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont. He died on May 17, 1886. He determined that the wood and cast-iron plow in use at the time was ill suited to the challenges presented by prairie soil, so after some experimentation he crafted a new kind of plow and sold his first one in 1838.
Source: https://www.biography.com/inventor/john-deere]]> 2019-10-09 22:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ld02hs8t92up/wish/395889024