https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ogqrh5b11r3l Made with a dash of wit en-us 2019-10-08 20:51:28 UTC 2025-11-29 17:12:06 UTC hello@padlet.com 377848 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ogqrh5b11r3l/wish/395309568 Elias Howe was born on July 9, 1819 in Spencer, Massachusetts.  He moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts due to the Panic of 1837. He had also worked as a mechanic with carding machinery along with his cousin Nathaniel P. Banks. On September 10, 1846, he was awarded the first United States patent for a sewing machine using a lockstitch design. Between 1865/67, he established The Howe Machine Co. in Bridgeport, Connecticut that was operated by Elias's sons-in-law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Howe]]> 2019-10-08 20:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ogqrh5b11r3l/wish/395309568 377848 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ogqrh5b11r3l/wish/395315691 Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, United Kingdom. By 1889, he owned Carnegie Steel Corporation which is the largest of its kind in the world. In 1901, he sold his business and dedicated his time expanding his welfare for others and his work. When he was working for the railroad, he began to make investments and made wise choices. In 1901, Carnegie made a major change in life by selling his business to the United States Steel Corporation that started by financier J.P. Morgan and the sale earned him more than $200 million.

https://www.biography.com/business-figure/andrew-carnegie]]> 2019-10-08 21:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ogqrh5b11r3l/wish/395315691 377848 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ogqrh5b11r3l/wish/395809801 Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Endinburgh, Scotland. He was a Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf. He passed the examinations for University College London in June 1868 but couldn't complete his studies because in 1870, he and his family moved. In 1870, he and his family moved and migrated to Canada after the deaths of his younger brother Edward in 1867 and older brother Melville in 1870 due to the cause of tuberculosis. He also taught at Clarke School for the Deaf in Northhampton, Massachusetts, and at the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Graham-Bell]]> 2019-10-09 19:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ogqrh5b11r3l/wish/395809801 377848 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ogqrh5b11r3l/wish/395898787 Christopher Latham Sholes was born on February 14, 1819 in Mooresburg, PA.  He was an American inventor who developed the typewriter and after completing his schooling, he worked on printers. In 1837, he moved to the new territory of Winconsin, and worked for his elder brothers who published a newspaper in Green Bay. Sholes became editor of the Wisconsin Enquirer in Madison and also became editor of the Milwaukee News, then the Milwaukee Sentinel. Sholes was attracted to the idea of a device that was writing and printing machine that he devoted the rest of his life on this.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Latham-Sholes]]> 2019-10-09 23:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ogqrh5b11r3l/wish/395898787 377848 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/ogqrh5b11r3l/wish/395902088 Henry Bessemer was born on January 19,1813 , in Charlton, United Kingdom. He was an English inventor who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpesively in 1856. He developed other inventions such as sugarcane-crushing machinery of advanced design. During the Crimean War, he invented an elongated artillery shell that was rotated by the powder gases. At 70 years old, he still continued to invent and make discoveries.

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