American inventors

in order to make more fabric, quicker. This led Sir Richard Arkwright to invent the spinning machine, which would ultimately created the modern factory. This concept was so successful that the idea began to spread all over the world. Many other inventors began to create machines much like the spinning machine for other products. Not only did this advancement create a much faster and more convenient way to create products, it also formed hundreds of more jobs in the cities. The revolution was…

brought about one of the greatest documents in American history. Benjamin Franklin was a great statesman, writer, and orator. Benjamin Franklin is remembered for his great part in American history. His writing was very popular during the 1700’s, and he did much to educate the colonies. His inventions helped to bring technology to its current state, and his assistance on the United States Constitution is especially renowned. Benjamin Franklin improved American government, technology, and…

Geronimo: A True American The brave Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo was able to accomplish many astonishing feats before he died at the age of seventy-nine in 1909. Some of these achievements include continuing his journey of bettering the lives of his people despite his own family being murdered when he was only twenty-nine (27). Geronimo fully embodies the hard-working and no excuses attitude that many Americans strive for. Geronimo in many ways possesses the same moral code and ideas that…

When one thinks of the “American Revolution,” often they are referring to the struggles of the (soon to be) United States in North America, against the British in the late 1700’s. However, the American British Colonies were not the only group in the New World to rebel against their distant sovereigns during this time. By examining the similarities (and lack thereof) between the North American revolution and the Spanish-American revolutions, it becomes much clearer that the United States, as we…

children, whose names were William Franklin, Francis Franklin, and Sarah Bache. The central persuasive individuals throughout his life were his father and his brother James. His occupation for the period of the course of his life was as a scientist, inventor, writer, and also a soldier. As a scientist, Benjamin created a theory of how electricity was made and through his invention of the lightning rod his theory became the reality of everyday life. He was the first to be able to demonstrate…

Jan Matzeliger felt anything but welcome in Philadelphia in 1873. As well as being a foreigner, Jan was half African American, which meant that most doors were closed to him. Although the Civil War had been over for nearly ten years, inequality for African Americans still persisted in its aftermath. Jan Ernst Matzeliger, inventor of the shoe lasting machine, made shoes more affordable for everyone. Connecting the top of the shoe to the sole of the shoe, a process called shoe lasting. However,…

autobiography. Franklin’s book shows us how he was shaped into the man that helped with the formation of the United States, how he learned from his father and mother, as well as his personal life experiences. Benjamin Franklin was an intelligent man, an inventor, and probably most importantly just a person…

George Washington Carver was born in Diamond, Missouri around 1864 though his birthdate is quite unknown except the fact that his was born around the Civil War. He was many things a botanist, scientist, chemist and an inventor. He was one of the 12 children born to Mary and Giles, the slaved couple, owned by Moses Carver. After a week of his birth, George soon got kidnapped along with his mother and sister by raiders from the neighboring state of Arkansas. Though he was the one only recovered by…

within society. Franklin a man of many talents and expertise who had trouble fitting into the identity that society had for him but rather wanted his own identity and saw himself almost above society at the time. Douglass a self-educated African American man who also struggled with the stereotypes portrait on him by society, who would not conform to society at the time but rather diverge and become a very well respected social reformer and abolitionist. Society at the time of Douglass which is…

They’re Not Just Dead People The most influential individuals of the Enlightenment Beccaria, Copernicus, Galilei, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Newton, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Voltaire are all people you have probably heard of before; but did you know that they all have affected the way you live right now. Authors, philosophers, scientists, and martyrs from the Enlightenment still make an impact on your life hundreds of years after their dead. How you might ask. The…