To read this patent application today is to be transported to a time before the name, Abraham Lincoln, carried such import—before he was the President who led our country through a war that literally could have torn the country in two.
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• Victor Green’s book (The Negro Motorist Green Book), was a travel guide for African Americans. It was needed because of Jim Crow laws. During the 1940s and ‘50s, Americans
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In 1847 Linus Yale, Sr. (1797-1858) opened a lock shop in Newport, NY. His particular interest was creating locks that did a better job at securing bank vaults. He knew the Egyptians had used pin-tumbler lock several thousand years ago, but they were made of wood and were large and bulky. Yale was fascinated by the thought that the tumbler lock might be re-fashioned using more modern materials.
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Created the first of a family of synthetic fibers of exceptional strength Worked on the team that took her creation from invention to product implementation; now this fiber—or some form
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New York led the way in passing the first laws against drunk driving. The year was 1910. At first, the methods used by a police officer to check for drunkenness
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Newscasters issued frequent reminders throughout the weekend that in addition to turning our clocks back, we should check the batteries in our smoke alarms.
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