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Inventors & Inventions Pt. 9
Henry Waterman, of New York, invented the elevator in 1850. He intended it to transport barrels of flour.
John Greenwood, of New York invented the dental drill in 1790.
The corkscrew was invented by M.L. Bryn, of New York, in 1860.
Electrical hearing aids were invented in 1901 by Miller R. Hutchinson, who was from New York.
Dr. Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for polio in 1952, in New York.
Four wheel roller skates were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863.
The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, "Mary had a little lamb."
In the early 1800s, a French silk weaver called Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented a way of automatically controlling the warp and weft threads on a silk loom by recording patterns of holes in a string of cards.
As an advertising gimmick, Carl Meyer, nephew of lunch meat mogul Oscar Meyer, invented the company's "Wienermobile". On July 18, 1936, the first Oscar Mayer "Wienermobile" rolled out of General Body Company's factory in Chicago. The Wienermobile still tours the U.S. today.
The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
Germany holds the title for most independent inventors to apply for patents.
Noxema, the skin cream invented in 1914 by Baltimore pharmacist George Bunting, was originally sold as "Dr. Bunting's Sunburn Remedy." Mr. Bunting changed the name to Noxema after a customer enthusiastically told him the cream had "knocked out his eczema." Thus, the cream that "knocks eczema" became "Noxema".
George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, hated having his picture taken.
Because Napoleon believed that armies marched on their stomachs, he offered a prize in 1795 for a practical way of preserving food. The prize was won by a French inventor, Nicholas Appert. What he devised was canning. It was the beginning of the canned food industry of today.
Bavarian immigrant Charles August Fey invented the first three-reel automatic payout slot machine, the Liberty Bell, in San Francisco in 1899.
Joseph Priestly is credited with discovering oxygen, ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. He was also the first to isolate chlorine.
Joseph Swan invented the light bulb in 1879, one year before Thomas Edison did. However, Swan didn't patent the idea and was widely accused of copying Edison who did patent the idea and was therefore recognized as its inventor. Swan continued to be denied recognition until some time later when it was shown that both light bulbs were produced using different processes. Edison and Swan later formed a joint company using the best of both technologies.
The first person to attempt daily weather forecasts was Cleveland Abbe (1838-1916). He compiled his reports from telegraph dispatches while with the US Signal Service.
In 1844 Samuel F.B. Morse introduced his invention of the telegraph to Congress, and demonstrated its use by transmitting the famous message "What hath God wrought" over a wire from Washington to Baltimore.
Thomas Edison produced small phonographs that could be fitted into the body of a French doll.
The aqualung was invented by Jacques Yves Cousteau and Emil Gagnan. They developed the underwater breathing appartus while fighting with the French Resistance during World War II.
Xerography was invented in 1937 by a prelaw student named Chester Floyd Carlson. The first message he copied was "10-22-38 Astoria," the date and place where Carlson performed his experiments.
When margarine was invented by Mege Mouriees in 1869 he had it patented simultaneously in France and England. The English patent (No. 2157) is for "The Preparation and Production of certain New Animal Fatty Bodies."
Every cubic mile of seawater holds over 150 million tons of minerals.
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is mearly what others think you are.
Dale Carnegie
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