Jeans

=Invention = //List facts here that **describe your invention**, tell **what it does**, what **problem it solves** and include any **other important details** //
 * **//Casual pants made from denim or strong similar material, dictionary//**
 * **//they are for all ages, world book 11//**
 * **//today they come in all styles, world book 11//**
 * **//It comes from the french word Genes, an Italian port, world book 11//**
 * **//They are heavy, denim, and a diagonal weave, world book 11//**
 * **//They are dyed with indigo, world book 11//**
 * **//The company is Levi Strauss & Co., world book 18//**
 * **//They were put to the test 2 horses were tied to each pant leg and they ran and it did not break, 77//**
 * **//Levi and Jacob Davis put a patent on jeans in 1873//**
 * **//Close fitting pants made of jean or denim. Dictionary//****//Levi proved that jeans can last a long time by tieing them to a horse. Levi Strauss gets a bright idea #77//**
 * They were first made from tents or canvases (about.com)
 * Levi jeans started getting popular in 1960 (ideafinder.com)
 * Originaly called tent pants #77
 * Jeans were very much the same now a they were then
 * Jeans were origianly for the people in the Gold rush
 * Originaly the name for jeans were waist overals because it was the trditanal name for working pants
 * they solved the problem of miners getting holes in there pants #63

=Inventor = //List facts here about your **inventor** //
 * **//February 26th 1829 in Buttenheim, Geramn and Austrian border -1902, world book 18//**
 * **//He was Jewish, 2//**
 * **//He was in the dry goods bisnuss before he went to California, world book 18//**
 * **//Lob Strauss was his birth name, 63//**
 * **//He went to California for the Gold Rush, but he was late and missed the gold, 63//**
 * **//At home was was a peddler, 63//**
 * **//He was treated unfairly because of his Religion, 63//**
 * **//He was poor in buttenheim, 63//**
 * **//His step brothers in New York wrote letters of glorius America, 63//**
 * **//He invented jeans in 1853, 2//**
 * ** Went to San Fran to mine and get gold. Jewish American Heros #2 **
 * ** Young immigrant he came to New York in 1847 from Buttenhiem, Germany. Jewish American Heros #2 **
 * ** He was born Feb 26, 1829 he died september 26, 1902. Jewish American Heros #2 **
 * ** Worked as a peddler sold, needles, pins, threads, and cloth. Jewish American Heros #2 **
 * ** He cut up his tent in pieces and made them into jeans. Jewish American Heros #2 **
 * ** When Levi died at 73 he left all of his money to charity, friends, and relatives. Jewish American Heros #2 **
 * Jacob Davis also helped make jeans (IdeaFinder.com)
 * Levi wanted to make jeans because peoples pants were falling off in the Goldrush #77
 * Was first named Lob then later changed it to Levi #63 Levi was 24 years when he started making jeans (about.com)
 * Ntionality: American (of German decent) WWW.levi.com
 * He got the idea from a man that came up to him when he was selling canvases as tents the man said that he would like pants instead so he said come back ad i'll give you pants. 63

Place in History
//List facts here about **what was happening in society** that relates to this invention //
 * //Solved the pants problem for the gold rush, 77//
 * //cowboys and farmers liked them in 1960 young people liked them, world book 11//
 * A man asked Levi to invent pants that are sturdy at the sacremento river, 2
 * All the gold rush pants were very bad and not sturdy, jeans were fantastic, 77
 * Back then jeans were a need and now they're fashionable pants (Audrey's smartness)
 * They were originaly made so that people could wear actual pants and not barrels (IdeaFinder.com)
 * He was a young immagrent when he came to New York in 1847 in Buttenheim.
 * He had four siblings Franny mary lois and jonas . 63