Shanks,+Lori


 *  A Blasted From the Past the Transcontinental Railroad **

**Thesis/Objective Statement** The purpose of this project is to increase your understanding of why the transcontinental railroad was so important to the United States.

**Website Evaluations**


 * [|Link] to Evaluation 1
 * [|Link] to Evaluation 2
 * [|Link] to Evaluation 3

**Slideshow**

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 * Additional Multimedia **
 * [|Timeline]
 * [|Gallery]
 * [|People and Events]

**Summary** Click [|here] to read summary

**References**
 * http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/


 * http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese.html


 * http://www.tcrr.com/


 * [|http://cprr.org/Museum/Done!.html]

Inventors: "Crayola brand crayons ([|compare prices]) were the first kids crayons ever made, invented by cousins, Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith. The brand's first box of eight Crayola crayons made its debut in 1903. The crayons were sold for a nickel and the colors were black, brown, blue, red, purple, orange, yellow, and green. The word Crayola was created by Alice Stead Binney (wife of Edwin Binney) who took the French words for chalk (craie) and oily (oleaginous) and combined them."
 * Lori Shanks
 * Crayola Crayons
 * Edwin Binney and Harold Smith
 * 1903
 * To give kids something to color with, colored

Multimedia
 * fascinating [|facts] about the crayon
 * Did you [|know]
 * [[image:crayons.gif align="left"]]



References
 * http://www.didyouknow.cd/crayons.htm
 * http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/crayon.htm
 * http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/crayons.htm