History lesson 30 Top 5 Things I learned this week.

The Sewing machine is something that changed history. The sewing machine was something that made sewing easier. Back then before sewing machines, sewing would take hours house wives used to sew for hour and hours but now they could sew for one hour and a half. Some people didn’t even have to sew anymore because the sewing machine would do it for them.

The Braille reading system changed the lives of blind people. Braille born in 1809, used to play in his dad’s leather shop and this one time he was playing in his dads leather chop and he bumped into something and he got a infection in his eye and it spread to the other eye and then he became blind and back then people said the blindness was a curse and the blind were meant to live poor lives and Braille wanted to change that so bardiar’s reading system and he copied him and then he made his system read more faster and he helped blind people read.

If matches weren’t created then we wouldn’t have found out ways to light fires. A man called John Walker born in 1781 was a guy that worked as a surgeon couldn’t handle the gore in surgery so he did chemistry and he became fascinated with fire and he experimented with fire this one time he was experimenting with a splinter of wood and he accidentally ignited the fire place and that when he discovered matches.

The microphone is something that’s changed the world a lot in history. Charles Wheatstone born in England 1802, Became interested in Volta’s book which helped him build a battery for a experiment accidentally discovered that sound is caused by vibrating pressure waves and so he tried making sound louder and that’s when he created the microphone in 1827.

William Austin Burt born 1792, became fascinated with sailing and was a good student and when he got free time he’d study more and more and his studies were devoted to science He invented astronomical instruments, and in 1829 he invented the typewriter which kinda looked like a computer except there was paper in front of you and you had buttons with numbers on them and when you pressed the button it printed the letter you pressed.

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