My Book Of Inventors

My Book of Inventors By Landyn

Ben Franklin invented bifogels and the Franklin stove.He’s a founding father of the United State of America.Ben Franklin had to prove that electricity came from lightning.They flew a kite.It had a metal key and a jar.The jar caught electricity in it.The key got electricity and it shocked Ben Franklin.

Victor Ochoa’s plane can fold and it looks like a bird.It stretched about 26 feet in length.From front to back it is only 6 feet.It was powered by a 6 horse motor and it weighed 250 pounds.He worked on it for more then 20 years.

George Crum was born in Saratoga NewYork in 1822.His dad was an African American jockey rider.His Native American mom was a member of a tribe.He went around the Northern part of the United States as a mountain guide and a Native American trader. He cooked at Moon’s Lake House in a forest in Saratoga.A customer encouraged him to fry a potato.Fried potato’s were supposed to be eaten with a fork.The customer thought they were to soggy and thick.George recut them but the customer sent them back again.George cut them really thin and fried them until they were super crisp.

Chester Greenwood lived as a boy in Maine.He was born in 1858.He had massive ears.They got cold when he ice skated.He didn’t put a scarf around his head because he was allergic to wool.He used a coat hanger to make ovals and his grandma covered his ovals with beaver fur and velvet.It didn’t work so he tried again and put a steel band for the wire.in 1877 he got a patent for his earmuffs. They put up a billboard for him.In 1977 the governor of Maine made the first Saturday in December Chester Greenwood Day.

Mary Anderson was born in Alabama in 1886.She took a trip to New York.Before the onion they used their hands to clean windshields.Traffic was very slow.To use a windshield wiper you pushed a lever up and down and it took off the ice.

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