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Typewriter
Christopher Latham Sholes’ lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when printers went on strike, so he decided to try and make a typewriter with only numbers. He teamed up with Latham Soule who was another printer at the time. Carlos Glidden also thought that it was a good idea, so they tried making one with letters. E. Remington and Sons bought the rights to the typewriter and started manufacturing them and improving them. -
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1868-1896
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Thomas Adams
He was experimenting with chicle to see if it could become synthetic rubber. The chewing gum company created a monopoly by combining the top 6 chewing gum manufacturers. Before he ran the chewing gum company he was a photographer, an inventor, and a glass merchant. Santa Anna asked Thomas Adams to try and make rubber out of Chicle and sell it, so he could get lots of money and create an army. Santa Anna didn't get the army, but Thomas Adam's created a business that would succeed over time. -
Thomas Adam's Cont.
When He created chewing gum, he put it in stores to see what people would think of it. Stores kept on asking for more of it so he then created the chewing gum company. The chewing gum company created flavored gum called Black Jack and Tutti Frutti. Later on, he invented vending machines, for his gum. He put most of the vending machines in subways and the rest in other places. -
record players
The record player has invented to play back sound but it was bad quality. Later on in 1897, Emile Berliner made a better record player, where you could use a flat disc. Instead of a round cylinder. The disc. Was originally made from glass but it is now made from zinc. More improvements were made by other inventors that made it even better than it originally was. -
George Westinghouse
He was born on October 6, 1846. He had one of the greatest electrical companies in the U.S. His company was about $120 million and employed 50,000 workers. When he was younger he helped his dad run a shop that was for agriculture engineering and small steamboats. After serving in the civil war and going to college, he went back to work in his dad's shop. In his dad's shop, he invented a machine that could get derailed freight cars back on the track. -
George Westinghouse Cont.
Soon he began to have an interest in trains and looking at their problems. From looking at their problems he created the Westinghouse Air Break Company. The Air Break for trains was one of his biggest inventions because it would bring more safety for people on trains. Soon after he made the Air Break, he invented a compressed-air signal system. During his time alive, he was called the "greatest engineer alive." On March 12, 1914, George Westinghouse died, but he still earned honors.
