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Terms & Names Flashcards

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Edwin L. Drake
What?
Where?

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  • Successfully found oil in North America w/ a steam engine drill
  • Titusville, Pennsylvania
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Found coal & iron over 100 miles long.

Where?

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•Mesabi Minnesota

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Henry Bessemer
What?
Why?

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  • injected air into Molten

* to remove carbon & other impurities, to make iron into steel for more bendiness & less rusting

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Christopher Sholes

What?

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• invented the typewriter

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Alexander Graham Bell
What?
Why?

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  • invented the telephone

* for communication and advancements

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