This Week’s Program: The Slate that Didn’t Break
This week’s “living book for the ears” program is an excellent story about an almost forgotten pioneer American Inventor, Thomas Blanchard… whose inventions revolutionized modern manufacturing.
Blanchard was a real handfull as a boy. He was thrown out of school for rowdiness, and burned down his family’s kitchen trying to “invent” his own blacksmith’s kiln.
His punishment for these offenses? He was apprenticed to his older brother, hammering out tacks twelve hours a day in his factory. But what Thomas did next changed the course of the industrial revolution forever.
Here’s the link to this week’s story & news… http://www.chirotoons.com/HSRS/200640.html
January 13th, 2007 at 6:56 am
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