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Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank breeded lots of plants to improve upon the technology of the USA. Burbank started because he was profoundly influenced by the books of Charles Darwin, especially "The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication". He started his career on his 17 acre tract in 1870 when he was 21. Burbank bred over 800 new strains of plants, including many varieties of potato, plums, prunes, berries, trees, and flowers. -
Luther Burbank Part2
His most well known invention though was the Russet Burbank Potato(also known as the Idaho Potato). After this he moved to Santa Rosa to open his nursery. This improved the economy of the USA because now the USA had new food and flowers to export. Also this would give farmers new things to grow instead of the same old crops and would allow them to make more money and the USA to have a new wide variety of food choices. -
Levi Strauss Part2
Around 1872, Levi received a letter from one of his customers, Jacob Davis. In his letter, Davis disclosed the unique way he made pants for his customers, through the use of copper rivets at points of strain to make them last longer. Strauss was excited about this idea and Davis and Strauss patented it on May 20, 1873. This improved the technology of the USA because now people who were building railroads and building had hard work pants that would not fall apart and would not have holes. -
Levi Strauss Part3
This also improved the technology because now today in the world we have pants that are not too casual but are nice to wear. -
Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss was a very successful inventor in the USA's history. When he was young him and his sister traveled from Germany to America to be greeted by his brothers who were already there. When the gold rush hit Stauss headed west to make a fortune, although never he never did how he expected. He established a wholesale dry goods business under his own name. Levi eventually renamed his company “Levi Strauss & Co.” -
Cash register
The cash register was invented when Jame J. Ritty, a tavern owner from Dayton Ohio, reportedly saw a counter used to count the revolutions of the propeller of a ship on an Atlantic voyage in 1878. He thought if one could count the movements of a machine parts, it could count money coming into a business. Their prototype had a big, clock-like face and a row of keys for entering amounts from 5 cents to 95 cents (by fives) and from $1 to $9. A device inside the machine recorded total sales. -
Cash Register Part2
Ritty invented this because it was hard to keep track of what was sold during that day and sometimes clerks would just pocket the money instead of putting it into where the businesses money went for the day. Although the cash register was not successful at first in 1884, John H. Patterson bought the Ritty brother's company and made renamed it the National Cash Register Company. NCR soon dominated the cash register business. This benefited the USA's economy because now the USA had something to -
Fountain Pen
Lewis E. Waterman innovated the fountain pen because when he was about to sign the biggest contract of his life, the pen that he had leaked all over his paper and stoped working. Ecstatic, Waterman ran back to his office but by the time he got back the contract was already closed. This spurred the innovation of the fountain pen. In his brothers workshop (in Brooklyn New York), Waterman made a pen where there was steady air flow and the ink flowed evenly.The patent on this pen was passed in 1884. -
Fountain Pen Part2
This improved the technology of the USA because now people would have pens that would always give ink off correctly and would not have it come out in blobs. This also improved economy because now the USA had something that other countries did not have, therefore being able to trade it to them. Unlike Waterman's tragedy The Treaty of Versailles was signed in. -
Cash Register Part3
to keep track of money that went in and out of businesses and they could keep track of how sales are doing(if they had to lower the price because people weren't buying them, if they had to make more of their product because people were buying lots of them etc.) -
Sources
Luther Burbank:
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Luther-Burbank
Cash Register:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/cash-and-credit-registers
Levi Strauss:
http://www.levistrauss.com/our-story/
Fountain Pen:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blwaterman.htm
Used for ALL:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml
