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buying of Alaska
William Seward bought Alaska on May 15 1867 from Russia. They bought it from Russia for 7.2 million USD -
Typewriter
Christopher Sholes invented the typewriter on June 23rd 1868 in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He invented it to speed up the need for printing and writing. -
Football
Walter Camp invented football at Yale university in 1869. He made it by crossing rugby and soccer. -
Telephone
On March 7 1876 in Ontario Canada, Alexander Grahm Ball invented the telephone. He invented it because of his interest in transmitting sounds and his work with the deaf. He put a transmitter, a needle, and a bettery and when he talked it vibrated the needle converting to electric current and produced sound on the other side -
Light bulb
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879 in Menlo Park, New Jersey. He invented it to replace the dirty messes from the gas lamps being used. -
Statue of Liberty
France gave the U.S.A. the Statue of Liberty to symbolize friendship on July 4th, 1884. They sent it across the sea in 350 pieces and 200 wooden crates on a boat. -
Basketball
James Naismith invented it on December 21 1891 in Springfield Massachusetts. He invented it because he needed a game for his kids and he gave them a ball and had them shoot into a basket. -
airplane
Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the airplane in December of 1903 in Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina. They invented it because the issue of air travel. They loved birds and they made their first model based off a bird and their first flight lasted 12 seconds and went 120 feet. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
One of the workers had something and it sparked and caught the fabric and started a fire. The Factory was in the Asch building and then it burnt because the building got on fire. -
Sinking of the titanic
Captain Edward Smith went out to see with the titanic and it hit an iceberg in the ocean and started to sink. it sunk on April 15 1912 and only 706 of the 2240 people on board.