Lesson 25:

The sewing machine is an invention that changed history. The sewing machine made it a lot easier to sew, it took hours to sew until the sewing machine got invented. People now had to sew for one and a half hours it was easier the machine would sew for them some people didn’t have to sew anymore. The house wives could spend less time making clothes and have a lot of free time Imagine having all that free time. First the sewing machine was made in France then it found its way to the U.S. in a more successful way.

Matches had a very important impact on history. One guy called John Walker born in 1781 couldn’t handle the good of surgery because of all of the gore so he did chemistry. He was fascinated with fire and he tried more ways to make fire. One time he was experimenting with a splinter of wood and he accidentally lit the fire place wood on fire and that’s when he discovered matches. Thats when he wanted to experiment more to find out more so he could find out how it works. When the hard object rubs against another hard object it starts getting hotter the object starts a fire. When the match lights up it goes down and when it reaches the stick it goes out.

The Typewriter is something that changed the world. William Austin Burt born in Massachusetts 1792, became fascinated with sailing. He was a good student he liked science and when he got free time he studied more he devoted his studies to science to help people. Burt invented astronomical instruments then he invented the Typewriter in 1829. The typewriter was like a computer but it didn’t have a screen instead it had a piece of paper in front of you and buttons that had letters on them and when you press them it prints a letter on the paper.

The Braile reading system is a system that changed the lives of blind people. Louis Braille born in 1809, played in his fathers leather shop and one time he was playing in his fathers workshop and damaged his eye and the infection spread into his other eye and made him blind. He became a good student and he attended a school for the blind it was told that blindness was a curse and supposed to live poor lives but braille wanted help the blind people become literate. He learned of barbier’s system and devised his own in 1824. Braille allows blind people to read at standard speeds, Braille’s system improved by the