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Christopher Sholes
Sholes innovated the typewriter and the keyboard we know today. He started his innovation on the typewriter in 1867 and got his first patent on it on June 23, 1868. In 1872, he introduced the QWERTY keyboard. He innovated the typewriter in a way so that the typer could see the letter he typed right after he typed it. He innovated the keyboard because when the keyboards were in alphabetical order, it jammed up the typewriter when you typed to fast. -
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Using the QWERTY keyboard he was able to type faster without jamming up the machine. This improved technology quite a bit and led to more people innovating the typewriter to keep up with the needs of the people. Eventually, this would lead to the making of the first computer. http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/sholes.htm
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/01/the-origin-of-the-qwerty-keyboard/
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Basketball
James Naismith, a gym teacher in Springfield Massachusetts, created the game of basketball in December of 1891 because his students didn't have an indoor sport to play in the winter. He used soccer balls and peach baskets. The game that we know today and the game he originally invented are very different. When it was first made you could not move with the ball at all, and the peach baskets were on the ground. In 1892, was when it was first publicly played. By 1936, it was played in the Olympics. -
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The United States took the gold in 1936 and Naismith was there. This was important in the rise of technology because Naismith started off creating the idea of basketball and as time went on we turned it into the game of basketball that we know today.
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because it helped set the stage for all the farming equipment we have now. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml
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Tractor
In 1892, John Froehlich innovated the tractor in Iowa. He put a one cylinder gasoline engine on to his steam engines running gear. He did this because if a breeze blew through the prairie while you had your steam engine running, the breeze could blow a spark onto the ground and end up burning down the whole prairie. This helped the economy grow and helped the rise of technology because it became easier and a little less dangerous to farm so more people could be apt to do it and it helped... -
Will Keith Kellogg
people jobs since it took a lot of people to make so much of the new cereal.
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Will Keith Kellogg
Kellogg accidently created Corn Flakes in 1894, in Michigan. One day, while he was helping out his brother on his mission to find a way to improve the vegetarian diet, he was boiling a pot of wheat, and left the pot on too long. The wheat dried out and became tempered. When they finished the rolling process, the wheat came out in thin flakes. Kellogg managed to persuade his brother into letting him sell these thin flakes and the people loved them. This helped the economy grow because it gave...
