Central Illinois Teaching with Primary Sources Newsletter January 2007 Inventions Welcome to the 5th issue of the Central The Topic Collections provide primary Illinois Teaching with Primary sources on inventions and inventors from Sources Newsletter, a collaborative images to film. We have designated an project between the An Adventure of the area with lesson plans and activities to American Mind / Teaching with Primary use in your classroom. Each lesson plan Sources Programs at Southern Illinois indicates the grade level it was created University Edwardsville and Eastern Illi- for. Teachers know the ability level of nois University. their students, so you may choose a part Galbraith Railway Mail Service Map, Illinois 1897 of a lesson or to elaborate as you see fit. Inventions and Inventors are the focus Contents of the February 2007 issue. The Spotlight We want to hear from you! Please share Spotlight on Central on Central Illinois looks at the inventions your comments and ideas! Illinois - Page 2 Topic Connections - created in Illinois. Page 3 Lesson Plans and Activities - Page 6 What’s New at Learning with Lincoln Institute—Summer 2007 LOC.GOV - Page 6 User Tips - Page 6 We are thrilled to announce a new pro- learning experiences incorporating digi- Image Sources on gram! The SIUE and EIU programs are tized primary sources from the collections Page 7 each facilitating a Learning with Lincoln of the Library of Congress. The institute Institute in anticipation of the Bicenten- will conclude with an event at the Abra- nial Celebration of the birth of President ham Lincoln Presidential Library and Mu- Abraham Lincoln. seum that will be attended by participants of both programs, will feature a unique Educators are invited to apply to be part tour, special guests and lunch. of this special project. Educators from all disciplines and grade levels who have Participating teachers will create an ex- Contact Contact participated in TPS/AAM programs or are emplary learning experience that will be Information Information experienced working with the Library of shared with the Library of Congress Edu- Congress resources are encouraged to cation Outreach Division and will receive Amy Wilkinson Amy Wilkinson participate. other incentives Only ten participants will [email protected] [email protected] be selected for this program from each Cindy Rich During the Learning with Lincoln Insti- partner to ensure the highest quality Cindy Rich [email protected] learning experiences. [email protected] tute a select group of educators repre- senting a variety of grade levels and dis- Binod Pokhrel Binod Pokhrel ciplines will collaborate and develop Learn about program details at the web- [email protected] [email protected] teaching materials. With the underlying site of the program you previously Melissa Carr Melissa Carr theme of President Abraham Lincoln, edu- worked with. [email protected] [email protected] cators will attend two full and one half day workshops focusing on pedagogy, Websites SIUE information is available at http:// Websites best practices and interdisciplinary in- www.siue.edu/education/aam/ www.eiu.edu/ struction. www.eiu.edu/~eiutps institute.htm ~eiuaam EIU information can be found at www.siue.edu/ In addition, small excursions and/or guest www.eiu.edu/~eiutps/lwli www.siue.edu/ education/aam speakers will facilitate discussion on con- Applications must be received by education/aam tent integration. The objective of the February 12, 2007. Central Illinois Page 2 Spotlight on Central Illinois Connecting locally to past inven- At 3:30 when the kids get home from tors and inventions throughout school one of the first things they want is the central IL area… a snack. One of the more popular snacks Is the MP3 player you got for Christmas was invented right here in Illinois, the already obsolete? It seems there is a con- Twinkie. Jimmy Dewar from Chicago cre- stant stream of new ideas and products ated the short cake snack to boost sales that are presented to us daily. Do we ever when the strawberry season was stop and wonder who came up with over. The name Twinkies came the idea for that new fangled device to Jimmy while walking past a we must have (and why wasn't it us)? Twinkle Toe Shoe Factory. Many of the items that we use or see Abraham Lincoln was the only every day to make our lives easier were future U.S. President issued a created by inventors in Illinois, patent. His invention was for a some which might surprise you. device that was used to buoy vessels over With farming being a major industry shoals in shallow rivers. If you do a in Illinois it is no wonder that many search for patents in the Library of Con- inventions were created here to help gress American Memory many items show maintain the family farm. One of the results that pertain to Abraham Lincoln. first Illinoisans to receive a patent Some of these items contain information was Harvey Crown, his patent was for an The Good Sport/ Thomas about the Presidents invention. improved plow. Drive down nearly any A. Edison Inc. Early Motion Pictures road in Illinois in spring or fall and you 1897-1920 “African-American newspapers [like the will probably see some John Deere equip- SUMMARY Cleveland Gazette] covered local, na- A domestic comedy about ment in the field. John Deere was a black- tional, and world news.” Read an article a wealthy young woman smith from Grand Detour, he revolution- whose poor inventor about a talented African American inven- husband becomes rich ized farming with his steel plows. In tor, Robert Winn, who had a business in when he perfects the first 1908, Caterpillar of Peoria, (formally the elevator that ever St. Louis Missouri. Stanley Holt Company) manufactured the stopped even without a “Colored Edison [from newspaper]” Cre- floor. first gasoline tractor. Joseph Glidden of ated 05/25/1889. The African-American DeKalb created barbed wire. By Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 Collection. 1887 there were 173,000 tons of American Memory, Library of Congress. wire were being produced each [http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/ year. page1.cfm?ItemID=16322] Many inventions found around Learn about Alexander Graham Bell’s lec- the home were developed in ture given to students at Illinois College, Illinois. Alva J. Fisher of Chicago patented in Jacksonville, Illinois on radiophony. the first electric washing machine the “Letter from John D. Bradley to Alexander "Thor". In 1880 the Elcelsior Stove & Graham Bell, March 2, 1896.” The Alex- Manufacturing Company in Quincy manu- ander Graham Bell Papers at the Library factured cook stoves that were nickel- of Congress Collection. American Mem- plated and could burn either wood or coal ory, Library of Congress. [http:// more efficiently. Tuscola was where the memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ first radio station in Illinois began broad- magbell:@field(DOCID+@lit casting. (magbell16900147))] Items for Spotlight on Central Illinois were provided by Illinois History Teacher Volume 6: 3 1999 Inventions Page 3 Topic Connections (cont) Emile Berliner Early Recording In- Edison Companies Film and Sound dustry 1870-1956 Recording http://memory.loc.gov/ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/ ammem/edhtml/edhome.html berlhome.html Prolific inventor Thomas Alva Edison Emile Berliner an immigrant (1847-1931) has had a profound and a largely self-educated impact on modern life. In his life- man, was responsible for the time, the "Wizard of Menlo Park" development of the micro- patented 1,093 inventions, including phone and the flat re- the phonograph, the kinetograph (a cording disc and motion picture camera), and the kineto- gramophone player. scope (a motion picture viewer). Edison Although the focus of managed to become not only a re- this online collection is nowned inventor, but also a prominent on the gramophone manufacturer and businessman through and its recordings, it the merchandising of his inventions. includes much evidence of Berliner's The collections in the Library of Con- other interests, such as information on gress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting his businesses, his crusades for the and Recorded Sound Division features pasteurization of milk and other public- 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound re- health issues, his philanthropy, his mu- cordings, and other related materials, sical composition, and even his poetry. such as photographs and original maga- The collection comprises correspon- zine articles. dence, articles, lectures, speeches, Special Presentations scrapbooks, photographs, catalogs, Motion Pictures http://memory.loc.gov/ clippings, experiment notes, and rare ammem/edhtml/edmvhm.html sound recordings. Edison Biography http:// Special Presentations memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/ Emile Berliner: Inventor of the edbiohm.html Gramophone http://memory.loc.gov/ Sound Recording http:// ammem/berlhtml/berlsp.html memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/ edsndhm.html Carpet Cleaner run by a gasoline engine in Daquerrotype Photographs 1839- Samuel F.B. Morse Papers 1793- Kearney, Nebraska 1864 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ 1919 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ Inventor: Solomon D. daghtml/daghome.html sfbmhtml/sfbmhome.html Butcher There are more than 725 daguerreo- The Morse Papers consist primarily of types in the Prints & Photographs Divi- correspondence but also include diaries, Date: c.1907 scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, sion. The majority of the images are Prairie Settlement: portraits, but the collection maps, drawings, and other miscellane- Nebraska Photographs does include early architec- ous materials. These manuscripts and Family Letters tural views, outdoor scenes, span the years 1793 to 1944, but the 1862-1912 and copies of works of art. bulk of the papers dates from 1807 to 385 of the daguerreotypes 1872. They document Morse's life as are credited to Mathew artist and inventor and highlight his Brady's studio. Brady, who development of the electromagnetic today is mainly remembered for the telegraph, his career as a portrait work produced by his studio during the painter, and his interest in the nativist Civil War, opened his first daguerreo- movement.