https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/xt8kbo1wfumy History en-us 2019-10-07 16:34:01 UTC 2024-03-20 05:49:08 UTC hello@padlet.com 390001 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/xt8kbo1wfumy/wish/394572277 Robert Fulton was born on November 14,1765 and died on February 14,1815. He was an American Inventor, Engineer and Artist. He was the one who invented the steamboat. He also designed a submarine and steamship.  His Steamboat was know as the North River Steamboat.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Fulton-American-inventor

]]> 2019-10-07 16:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/xt8kbo1wfumy/wish/394572277 390001 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/xt8kbo1wfumy/wish/395660858 John Davidson Rockefeller was born on July 8,1838 and died on May 23, 1937. John was an American industrialist and philanthropist, as well as the founder of the Standard Oil Company. The Standard Oil company became a big success. But in 1890 the company was held as a monopoly and in a violation of the law in Ohio. Then John evaded the decision by transferring the companies into different states, but he then rounded them up together later in life.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-D-Rockefeller

]]> 2019-10-09 15:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/xt8kbo1wfumy/wish/395660858 390001 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/xt8kbo1wfumy/wish/395928160 Oliver Evans was born on September 13,1755 and died on April 15, 1819. Oliver was the one who devolved the high-pressure steam engine in 1790. But he was also the one who created the first continuous production line in 1784. In 1801 he built a stationary engine that turned a rotary crusher to produce pulverized limestone for agricultural purposes. Finally in June 1805, he created his new type of steam-engine called the Orukter that was 30 feet tall and 12 feet long.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Evans

]]> 2019-10-10 01:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/xt8kbo1wfumy/wish/395928160 390001 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/xt8kbo1wfumy/wish/395932263 Francis Cabot Lowell was born on April 7,1775 and died on August 10,1817.  He was know as a American Businessman. He was one of the foundings of the  Boston Manufacturing Company. Him and Paul Moody devised an efficient power loom and spinning apparatus. The working conditions in the mill and the worker' housing that he built were exemplary for the period. 
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Cabot-Lowell

]]> 2019-10-10 01:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/xt8kbo1wfumy/wish/395932263 390001 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/xt8kbo1wfumy/wish/395940423 Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25,1835 and died on August 11,1919. He was a very wealthy businessman in the 19 century. He was the owner of Carnegie Steel Corporation in 1889. But later in 1901 he sold his company and decided to decade his time to expand his Philanthropic work. In 1904 he established the Carnegie- Mellon University.
 https://www.biography.com/business-figure/andrew-carnegie

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