https://padlet.com/atmore/u7jkm9l7n8qzib44 en-us 2022-05-24 16:15:50 UTC 2022-05-27 13:27:11 UTC hello@padlet.com atmore https://padlet.com/atmore/u7jkm9l7n8qzib44/wish/2198065682 While repairing a model Newcomen steam engine in 1764, Watt was impressed by how much steam was wasted. In May 1765, he came up with a solution. The separate condenser, which would condense steam without cooling the rest of the steam engine.]]> 2022-05-24 17:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/atmore/u7jkm9l7n8qzib44/wish/2198065682 atmore https://padlet.com/atmore/u7jkm9l7n8qzib44/wish/2199368078 Robert Fulton was a portrait painter but quit because he was interested in the recent invention of the steam engine. To build an efficient, reliable steamboat, Fulton used a special English steam engine. The ship's bottom was flat and its stern was square.  Clermont made its debut on August 17, 1807, steaming upriver from New York to Albany, and it soon entered into commercial service.Within five years, Fulton would be running services on six major rivers plus the Chesapeake Bay, and raking in the profits. Steamboat travel was instrumental to the industrial revolution in America, helping manufacturers transport raw materials and finished goods quickly. It also opened up the American continent to exploration, settlement, and exploitation]]> 2022-05-25 13:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/atmore/u7jkm9l7n8qzib44/wish/2199368078 atmore https://padlet.com/atmore/u7jkm9l7n8qzib44/wish/2201085518 In 1813, Stephenson found out that William Hedley and Timothy Hackworth were designing a locomotive for the Wylam coal mine. So at the age of twenty, Stephenson began the construction of his first locomotive. After ten months of labor, Stephenson's locomotive "Blucher" was completed and tested on the Collingwood Railway on July 25, 1814. Stephenson's engine hauled eight loaded coal wagons weighing thirty tons, at a speed of about four miles an hour. This was the first steam-powered locomotive to run on a railroad. He built the Stockton and Darlington railway in 1825 and the Liverpool-Manchester railway in 1830. Stephenson was the chief engineer for several other railways.]]> 2022-05-26 16:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/atmore/u7jkm9l7n8qzib44/wish/2201085518 atmore https://padlet.com/atmore/u7jkm9l7n8qzib44/wish/2201146280 The brothers first worked in printing-machinery design and later in bicycle manufacturing, which financed their early experiments in airplane design. To test flight control, essential to successful powered flight, they built and flew three biplane gliders (1900–02). Propeller and engine innovations led to their first powered airplane, which Orville flew successfully for 12 seconds and Wilbur later flew for 59 seconds at Kill Devil Hills, N.C, on Dec. 17, 1903. Their flyer of 1905 could turn, bank, circle, and remain airborne for over 35 minutes. They demonstrated their planes in Europe and the U.S.; in 1908 Wilbur gave over 100 exhibition flights in France, setting a duration record of 2 hours and 20 minutes. They established an aircraft company and produced planes for the U.S. Army.]]> 2022-05-26 17:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/atmore/u7jkm9l7n8qzib44/wish/2201146280 atmore https://padlet.com/atmore/u7jkm9l7n8qzib44/wish/2202188829 On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, along with Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins, blasted off in the Apollo 11 vehicle toward the Moon. Four days later, the Eagle lunar landing module, guided manually by Armstrong, touched down on a plain near the southwestern edge of the Sea of Tranquillity. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong stepped from the Eagle onto the Moon’s dusty surface. Armstrong and Aldrin left the module for more than two hours, deployed scientific instruments, collected surface samples, and took numerous photographs. Even though, he didn't actually invent a type of transport, what he did opened up a new era in space exploration and had a huge impact. ]]> 2022-05-27 13:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/atmore/u7jkm9l7n8qzib44/wish/2202188829