Biographies of Famous Inventors

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Biographies of Famous Inventors

• Research done by
• Miss Rossers third grade class

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Thomas Edison

• He was born in 1847.
• He invented a lot of inventions.
• When he was 12 years old he got a job selling
  food.
• In 1877 he improved the telephone.
• He died in 1931.
• Lance Jacob B.

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Jonas Salk

• He worked very very hard on his work.
• He helped scientists study the flu.
• He invented polio medicine for people.
• He died in June 23, 1995.
• Chris Remi

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Louis Braille

• Louis Braille, at the age of 3, stabbed himself
  in the eye and became blind.
• Louis Braille went to a special school to learn
  to invent braille.
• At the age of 43 he died.
• Jake C. Dylan

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Alexander Graham Bell

• Was born in Scotland in 1847.
• He used to teach blind students.
• 5 years later he made the first telephone.
• 39 years later he made the 1st call across the
  U.S.A.
• 7 years later he dies. ?
• Amanda Megan

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Marie Curie

• Marie Curie and Pierre discovered radium and
  doctors treated it for cancer.
• She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.
• She died at the age of 67 years old.
• Samuel

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ROBERT FULTON

• He invented the submarine.
• He grew up to be an artist.
• He invented a enormous steamboat.
• He was poor then became rich.
• Ryan Braden

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Ruth Handler

• She played with paper dolls when she was a kid.
• She made the Barbie doll and got the name Barbie
  from her daughter and Ken from her son.
• Ruth is still alive and living. ?
• Kaylee, Alexis, Chase

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Benjamin Franklin

• He was born Jan. 17, 1706 in Boston, Mass.
• He invented the Long Arm to reach high shelves
  where people cant reach books.
• He also invented the swimming paddles to help you
  swim faster.
• He died on April 17, 1790 at the age of 84.
• Cole Drew

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Valerie Thomas

• She was born 1943.
• She worked at NASA for more than 30 years.
• She created complex computer systems.
• Sandy

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Johann Gutenberg

• He was a very smart person.
• He made a printer that made books faster.
• He was born in a weird town called Mainz in
  Germany.
• Chaim Trevor