My Book of Inventors

By Bella

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Chester Greenwood

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Chester Greenwood was born in 1858.
He took a hanger and wire and bent them into a circle.
His grandma sewed around the hanger with beaver skin.
In 1936 his factory made 400,000 ear muffs.
His shop was called Greenwood Champion Ear Protectors(GCEP)
He died in 1937, He put up a billboard that said' "Love my Earmuffs!"
The first Saturday in December we celebrate his day.

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This Is Chester Greenwood

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These are Chesters earmuffs

Ben Franklin

Ben Franklin is a Founding father of the United State of America.
He made eye goggles and he made a Franklin stove.
Bens son prose that electricity came from lightning.
He had to test it by flying a kite.
There was a metal key on the kite.
The key was connected to a Leyden jar.
The jar stored electrical charges.

This is Ben Franklin

This is what Ben made

Mary Anderson

Mary Anderson was born in 1866.
In 1903 she took a trip to New York
When she got to New York it was a snowy mess and the traffic was slow.
They had to get out and wipe their windshield.
Back then they used and onion or their sleeves to wipe there windshield of.
Then she started to design in her notebook for the windshield wiper.
She used a spring loaded arm and a metal blade.
When the driver pulled the lever the wiper would go up and down.

This is what Mary Anderson looks like

Facts about Mary Anderson

On February27 she found out that her dad was a vegan!


In 1492 her brother got cancer.

This is what Mary Anderson looks like

This is what Mary Anderson made

Gorge crum

Gorge crum was born in 1822.
His dad was an African American jockey and his mom was a Native American
leader in the Huron tribe.
He began working at Moons lake house.
In the US they ate potatoes very thin when a disappointed man came and in he took a bite and he said "it is too soggy and too thick."
He cut them razor thin and cooked then tell they were crisp.
In 1860 he he opened his own restaurant that sold potato chips for 1.00$

This is what Gorge Crum look like