https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/p2es2xks1slb Made with an open mind en-us 2019-10-08 18:20:09 UTC 2026-01-17 05:10:17 UTC hello@padlet.com 8189081 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/p2es2xks1slb/wish/395238158 Alexander Bell was born Bell was on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most well known for the inventions of the telephone in 1876. However he also did important work for the dead and held multiple patents. He also founded the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.
https://www.biography.com/inventor/alexander-graham-bell]]> 2019-10-08 18:28:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/p2es2xks1slb/wish/395238158 8189081 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/p2es2xks1slb/wish/395239850 George Westinghouse was born on October 6, 1846 in Central Bridge, N.Y.. George is an American inventor who is responsible for the adoption on alternating current for electric power transmission. His first patent was a rotary steam engine. His major invention was an air brake in 1869. That same year he organized the Westinghouse Air Brake Company.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Westinghouse]]> 2019-10-08 18:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/p2es2xks1slb/wish/395239850 8189081 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/p2es2xks1slb/wish/395241401 Francis Cabot Lowell was on born on April 7, 1775 in Newburyport, Mass.. Lowell was an American businessman was a member of the gifted Lowell family of Massachusetts. In 1810 Francis Cabot Lowell, Patrick Tracy Jackson(brother-in-law) and Nathan Appleton founded the Boston Manufacturing Company.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Cabot-Lowell]]> 2019-10-08 18:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/p2es2xks1slb/wish/395241401 8189081 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/p2es2xks1slb/wish/395242906 Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on November 25, 1835. He is most commonly known as one of the first businesses men to get it rich from industrialization. By 1889 Carnegie owned Carnegie Steel Corporation which was the largest of its kind. After he sold it in in 1901 to do philanthropic work.
https://www.biography.com/business-figure/andrew-carnegie]]> 2019-10-08 18:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/p2es2xks1slb/wish/395242906 8189081 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/p2es2xks1slb/wish/395243902 Cyrus McCormick was born on February 15, 1809 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Cyrus is commonly credited with the development of mechanical reaper. His family did have a iron foundry but it failed in 1837 so McCormick turned to the mechanical reaper. After 1844 McCormick was convinced the Reaper would make him rich so he started a factory.
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