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Famous American
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• In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright
made the first powered flight in an
airplane they built themselves.
• The flight only lasted 12 seconds,
but it was the beginning of the
aviation and space exploration
industries.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
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• George Washington Carver was an
African-American scientist who created
more than 300 products from peanuts
and sweet potatoes.
• Some examples are plastics, dye,
medicines, flour, and fertilizer.
• He also taught farmers about the
benefits of crop rotation (planting
different crops each year to help put © 2014 Brain Wrinkles
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George Washington
Carver at Work in hit
Laboratory
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• In 1875, Alexander Graham Bell
invented a machine to transmit the
human voice over wires -- the telephone.
• The first telephone lines between cities
went up in 1877.
• By 1880, more than 34,000 miles of
telephone wire connected thousands of
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Bell at the
Opening of the
Long-Distance
Line from New
York to Chicago in
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• Thomas Alva Edison had more than
1,000 patents for his ideas and inventions.
• He invented the first light bulb and
electrical generating system in 1879.
• He also invented the phonograph, a
device made it possible to record sound.
• Edison also developed the kinescope, a
camera-like device that was the first
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Thomas Edison’s First
Successful Light Bulb
Model - 1879