https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/z0wcfjxwkwuf Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2019-10-07 16:33:02 UTC 2024-03-20 05:49:15 UTC hello@padlet.com 8198461 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/z0wcfjxwkwuf/wish/394569600 His full name is Sir Henry Bessemer. He was born on January 19th, 1813, Charlton and he died on March 15th 1898, London. He is inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively (1856). He was knighted in 1879.  During the Crimean War, Bessemer invented an elongated artillery shell that was rotated by the powder gases.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Bessemer

]]> 2019-10-07 16:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/z0wcfjxwkwuf/wish/394569600 8198461 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/z0wcfjxwkwuf/wish/394579249 He was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution". He was born on June 9, 1768 and died on April 21, 1835. In the UK, he was called "Stater the Traitor" because he brought British textile technology to America. He memorized the designs of textile factory machinery as an apprentice to a pioneer in the British industry before migrating to the United States at the age of 21. He designed the first textile mills in the US and later went into business for himself, developing a family business with sons.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater]]> 2019-10-07 16:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/z0wcfjxwkwuf/wish/394579249 8198461 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/z0wcfjxwkwuf/wish/395371338 He was born on July 9, 1819 in U.S and died October 3, 1867 in New York. He is American inventor whose sewing machine helped revolutionize garment manufacture in the factory and in the home. Interested in machinery since childhood, Howe learned the machinist trade and worked in a cotton machinery factory in Lowell, Mass., and later in Cambridge. During this time it was suggested to him that the man who invented a machine that could sew would earn a fortune. For five years Howe spent all his spare time in the development of a practical sewing machine, and in 1846 he was granted a patent for it. 

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elias-Howe]]> 2019-10-09 01:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/z0wcfjxwkwuf/wish/395371338 8198461 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/z0wcfjxwkwuf/wish/395373265 He was born on April 7, 1775 in U.S and died August 10, 1817 in Boston. He is a member of the gifted Lowell family of Massachusetts and the principal founder of what is said to have been the world's first textile mill in which were performed all operations converting raw cotton into finished cloth. While visiting the British Isles (1810–12) Lowell closely studied the textile industries of Lancashire and Scotland. On returning to the United States, he joined Patrick Tracy Jackson (his brother-in-law) and Nathan Appleton in founding the Boston Manufacturing Company, Waltham Mass. With the inventor Paul Moody he devised an efficient power loom as well as spinning apparatus. The working conditions in his mill and the workers’ housing that he built were exemplary for the period.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Cabot-Lowell]]> 2019-10-09 01:12:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/z0wcfjxwkwuf/wish/395373265 8198461 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/z0wcfjxwkwuf/wish/395375298 His full name is Cyrus Hall McCormick. He was born on February 15, 1809 in Virginia and died on May 13, 1884 in Illinois. He is American industrial and inventor who is generally credited with the development (from 1831) of the mechanical reaper. In 1831 Cyrus, aged 22, tried his hand at building a reaper. When McCormick’s reaper was tested on a neighbor’s farm in 1831, it offered the hope that the yield of the farmer’s fields would soon not be limited to the amount of labour available. McCormick took out a patent in 1834, but his chief interest at that time was the family’s iron foundry. 

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cyrus-McCormick]]> 2019-10-09 01:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/z0wcfjxwkwuf/wish/395375298