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Then answer each question.  \nBarrels of Ideas  \nIn a time before plastic and cardboard boxes, people used barrels to store and transport food, liquids, and other things . Maria Beasley learned about barrels as a little girl . Her grandfather’s factory used thousands of them to transport liquids .  \nHowever, Maria’s grandfather had a problem . He could not find enough barrels for his factory.  \nEach wooden barrel being used all over the world had to be made by hand. The men making the barrels were called “coopers .”  \nIt took a lot of skill to make a barrel . The curved pieces of wood (the “staves”) had to fit together perfectly in a circle so that liquids would not leak out . The staves were held in place by strong metal hoops so that the barrels would not fall apart . A hard-working cooper might make 5 barrels a day .  \nMaria wanted to help her grandfather with his problem . She studied how the coopers made the barrels . She learned each step in making a barrel . Maria saw that putting the hoops on was the hardest part .  \nMaria began to study different types of machinery . In 1876, Maria went to the World’s Fair when it came to her hometown . She examined all the new machines she saw . None of the machines made barrels, but they did give her some ideas . Maria decided to invent a barrel making machine .  \nThis was followed by 5 years of hard work. Five years of trial and error . Five years of mistakes, setbacks, and failures . Five years of lessons learned. However, at the end of the five years, Maria had invented the world’s first barrel making machine .  \nThe machine could create 1,700 barrels a day! News of the invention quickly spread. At the next big fair, Maria’s machine was put on display . Factory owners like her grandfather from all around the world wanted the machine . Maria became rich and famous .  \nMaria has solved her grandfather’s problem, but she wasn’t done with her work . She made her machine even better . Maria thought up new ideas . She later invented a new type of life raft and a device to stop trains from coming off their tracks . Inventions which, like her barrel making machine, made life better for millions of people around the world.  \nExercises:  \n1. Fill in the blanks .  \na . Maria wanted to invent a   that could do the work of a    \nb . Maria was   by ideas on display at the   when it came to her hometown.  \nc . Barrels are made of curved pieces of wood called    \n2. 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