https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/olgkn41d3hk8 Made with charm en-us 2019-10-07 21:04:17 UTC 2024-03-20 05:49:16 UTC hello@padlet.com 389296 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/olgkn41d3hk8/wish/394727657
 Oliver Evans, born Sept. 13, 1755, near Newport, Del. [U.S.]—died April 15, 1819, New York, N.Y.), American inventor who pioneered the high-pressure steam engine (U.S. patent, 1790) and created the first continuous production line (1784). Evans was apprenticed to a wheelwright at the age of 16.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Evans

]]> 2019-10-07 21:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/olgkn41d3hk8/wish/394727657 389296 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/olgkn41d3hk8/wish/394730262 Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born American inventor and scientist. Bell was born on March 3. He was born 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1870 Bell and his family emigrated to Canada. A year later Bell moved to the United States, where he taught speech to deaf students.

Source: https://www.britannica.com]]> 2019-10-07 21:14:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/olgkn41d3hk8/wish/394730262 389296 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/olgkn41d3hk8/wish/395121164 Cyrus Hall McCormick was born in 1809. He grew up on his family's 532-acre farm, "Walnut Grove". This was located north of Lexington, Virginia. As a boy had a talent for both agriculture and inventing. At the age of 15, he invented a lightweight cradle for carting harvested grain (1824).

Source: https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/cyrus-mccormick]]> 2019-10-08 15:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/olgkn41d3hk8/wish/395121164 389296 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/olgkn41d3hk8/wish/395130441 In just six years, Francis Cabot Lowell built up an American textile manufacturing industry. He was born in Newport, Massachusetts in 1775.He became a successful merchant. On a trip to England at age 36.He was impressed by British textile mills.
Source:https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/lowell_hi.html]]> 2019-10-08 16:03:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/olgkn41d3hk8/wish/395130441 389296 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/olgkn41d3hk8/wish/395135983 Scottish-born Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 he died in 1919.He  was an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry.He then became a major philanthropist. Carnegie was from Pittsburgh. He worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory as a boy before rising to the position of division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859.

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