https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/uu0skstwnxc0 Made with a stroke of good luck en-us 2018-10-16 20:33:48 UTC 2026-01-13 22:18:40 UTC hello@padlet.com 381176 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/uu0skstwnxc0/wish/293600150 Edwin Drake was born in Greenville, Greene County,New York on March 29,1819. He spent the early parts of his life working the railways around new haven, Connecticut as a clerk, express agent and conductor. In 1845, he married Philena Adams  who died while giving birth to their second child, in 1854. His occupation was a businessman. He was the first person in the United States to refine crude oil into lamp oil, (kerosene).
Edwin Drake was hired by the Seneca Oil company to investigate suspected oil deposits in Titusville Pa. He purchased a steam engine in Erie Pa to power the drill. Drake is famous for pioneering a new method for producing oil from the ground. He drilled using piping to prevent borehole collapse allowing the drill to go further and further in the ground. The significant step that Drake took was to drive a 32-foot iron pipe through the ground into the bedrock below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Drake]]> 2018-10-16 20:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/uu0skstwnxc0/wish/293600150 381176 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/uu0skstwnxc0/wish/294170557 Cyrus McCormick was born Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, February 15,1809. He was the eldest of eight children. As cyrus' father saw the potential of the design for a mechanical reaper, he applied for a patent to claim it as his own invention. He worked for 28 years on a horse-drawn mechanical reaper to harvest grain; however,he was never able to reproduce a reliable version. The McCormick design was pulled by horses and cut the grain to one side of the team.  Cyrus held one of his first demonstrations of mechanical reaping at the nearby village of Steeles,tavern Virginia in 1831.
After his father's death him and his brother moved to Chicago where they established a factory to build machines. Chicago had no paved streets at the time,but the city had the best water transportation from the east over the Great Lakes for his raw materials, as well as railroad connections to the father west were his customer would be. When McCormick tried to renew his patent in 1848,the US patent office noted that a similar machine had already been patented by Obed Hussey a few months earlier. McCormick claimed he had really invented a machine in 1831, but the renewal was denied. McCormicks brother, William moved to Chicago in 1849 and joined the company to take care of financial affairs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_McCormick]]> 2018-10-18 03:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/uu0skstwnxc0/wish/294170557 381176 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/uu0skstwnxc0/wish/294176434 Oliver Evans was born in Newport, Delaware on September 13, 1755 to Charles and Ann Stalcop Evans. His father was a cordwainer by trade,though he purchased a large farm,to the North of Newport on the Red Clay Creek and moved his family there when Oliver was still in infancy. Oliver was the fifth of twelve children he had four sisters and seven brothers. At 17, Evans was apprenticed to a wheelwright and wagon-maker in Newport. Evans also began experimenting in this period with steam power and its potential for commercial application.
Evans attention turned to flour milling in the early 1780s, an industry which was booming rapidly industrializing northern Delaware . In this era, the operation of grist mills was labor- intensive. Although the stages of milling processing grinding, cooling,sifting, and packing were beginning to be mechanized to various degrees, gravity or manual labor, was required to move grain from one stage to the next. Some stages were slow and inefficient creating significant production process. The end result , Evans recognized was a low quality product that took to many laborers to make.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Evans]]> 2018-10-18 03:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/uu0skstwnxc0/wish/294176434 381176 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/uu0skstwnxc0/wish/294179540 Samuel Slater was born in Belper, Derbyshire,In England on June 9, 1768. At age ten he began working at the cotton mill. In 1782,his father died and his family indentured Samuel as an apprentice to Strutt. Slater was well trained by Strutt and,by age 21, he had gained a thorough knowledge of the organisation and practice of cotton spinning. He learned of the American interests in developing similar machines, and he was also aware of British laws against exporting the designs.
Slater constructed a new mill in 1793 for the sole purpose of textile manufacture under the name Almy, Brown and Slater, as he is now partners with Almy and Brown. It was a 72 spindle mill the patenting of Eli Whitney's cotton gin in  1794 reduced labor in processing cotton. It also enabled profitable cultivation of short-staple cotton,which could be grown in the interior uplands. The new England mills and their labor force of free men depended on southern cotton, which was based on slave labor.  Slater also brought the Sunday school system from his native England to his textile factory at pawtucket.

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]]> 2018-10-18 04:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/uu0skstwnxc0/wish/294179540 381176 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/uu0skstwnxc0/wish/294183346 Elias Howe was born on July 9, 1819 in Spencer Massachusetts. Howe spent his childhood in his home state where he apprenticed in a textile factory in Lowell beginning in 1835. After mills closing, he worked as a mechanic with cardeing machinery.  It was the employ of Davis that Howe seized upon the idea of a sewing machine. He married Elizabeth Jennings, Ames,on March 3,1841.

Howe was not the first to conceive of the idea of a sewing machine. Many other people formulated the idea of a machine before him, some had even patented them. Howe originated significant refinements to the design concepts of his predecessors. On September 10, 1846 he awarded the first United States for a sewing machine  using a lockstitch design. Between 1865-1867 he established   The Howe Machine Co. in Bridgeport, that was operated by Elias's son in law the Stockwell Brothers until 1886.

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