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People
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Wright brothers
Orville and Wilbur Wright– Two Americans who were the first to make an
airplane that could fly.– They were the first to create mechanical controls for
aircraft wings, which made flight possible.
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George Washington Carver
• African American• Taught former slaves farming
methods• Taught people to farm other
crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes.
• Invented many products that used peanuts, such as cosmetics, (make-up), dye, paint, plastic, and fuel.
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Alexander Graham Bell
• Fascinated with the deaf, and wanted to learn more about hearing.
• Invented the “electrical speech machine” in 1876.– Now called the telephone
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Thomas Edison
• Inventor
• Worked with electricity
• He patented 1,093 inventions
• Some inventions:– Incandescent light bulb, – phonograph (record player),– and the “kinetoscope”
(movie player)
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Woodrow Wilson
• A president of the United States• Under his rule, the United States
was isolationist, which means that it believed that countries should not get involved in each other’s problems.
• Had the idea of the League of Nations, but the United States never joined.
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Henry Ford
• Founded the Ford Motor Company• Created the modern assembly line
that is still used in factories today.• Created the first mass produced
automobile, the Model T.• He was awarded 161 U.S. patents
in his lifetime.
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Charles Lindbergh
• Pilot
• Famous for being the first to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean.– Flew from New York to Paris in
1927 in The Spirit of St. Louis.– One of the first celebrities of the
modern age
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Louis Armstrong
• Nickname: Satchmo
• Jazz trumpeter and singer
• Helped make jazz popular.
• His form of jazz centered on Improvising, which meant making up the song on the spot.
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Langston Hughes
• Poet
• Best-known Harlem Renaissance writers.
• His poems portrayed African Americans in a proud and hopeful light.
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Edward “Duke” Ellington
• Leader of the new sound in jazz called “big band” music.
• After his death, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his work.
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Margaret Mitchell
• Also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind– Book was made into the 1939
film of the same name.
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James “Jesse” Owens
• African American Olympic runner.
• He won four gold medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany
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