https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/u5for5cvm1sv en-us 2018-10-18 01:38:34 UTC 2026-02-04 11:23:36 UTC hello@padlet.com 822746 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/u5for5cvm1sv/wish/294158151 He was an inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively. He was knighted in 1879. He was the son of an engineering type-founder, he show his considerable mechanical skills and inventive powers early on. He invented movable stamps for dating deeds and government documents. During the Crimean War he invented a artillery shell that was rotated by the powder gases.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edwin-Laurentine-Drake]]> 2018-10-18 01:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/u5for5cvm1sv/wish/294158151 822746 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/u5for5cvm1sv/wish/294158195 He was a Scottish-born American inventor, scientist and teacher of the deaf. His foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telegraph and the refinement of the phonograph. The Graham in his name was not added until he was 11. His mother was almost deaf and his father taught elocution to the deaf. Both his younger and older brothers died of tuberculosis.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Graham-Bell]]> 2018-10-18 01:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/u5for5cvm1sv/wish/294158195 822746 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/u5for5cvm1sv/wish/294158247 Born in 1819, he was the driller of the first productive oil well in the US. He was raise on farms in New York and he worked as a hotel and dry-goods clerk before becoming an agent for the Boston and Albany Railroad. He saw the futility of gathering oil from the surface seeps or trying to mine it. So he studied the techniques for drilling for salt and put it into practice with oil. At first he had trouble with drilling but he soon solved it and soon after many boom towns started popping up in Pennsylvania.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edwin-Laurentine-Drake]]> 2018-10-18 01:41:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/u5for5cvm1sv/wish/294158247 822746 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/u5for5cvm1sv/wish/294158346 He was born in Pennsylvania in 1765. He was a American inventor, engineer and artist who brought steam-boating from an experiment to practical use. Some of the other things he invented was inland waterways, submarines and steam warships. He is the son of Irish immigrants, he learned how to read and write at home and at 8 years old he s sent to a Quaker school. He later became a apprentice in a Philadelphia jewelry shop.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Fulton-American-inventor]]> 2018-10-18 01:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/u5for5cvm1sv/wish/294158346 822746 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/u5for5cvm1sv/wish/294158468 Slater was an early English-American industrialist. He was know as the "Father of the American industrial revolution and American factory system". But in the UK he was called "Slater the traitor" and the reason for the name was because he brought British textile technology to America. He design the first textile mills in the US and later went into the business himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater]]> 2018-10-18 01:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/u5for5cvm1sv/wish/294158468