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• McGill’s design was improved in 1905, but the stapler had to be smacked with a mallet to secure the staple because the staples were connected to each other with a thin bit of metal.

• At first the stapler was such a rare 1. The average American business lunch lasts 67 contraption thatdoes firms wouldFrench buy abusiness single minutes. How long the average lunch last? stapler and the entire company hadof-to 2. If you tracked the travel of the typical wheeled fice chair, how many miles would it travel annually?

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PENCILS

Cont’d • When an oak tree tipped over in Cumbria, England, in the mid-1500s, a deposit of extremely pure graphite was discovered underneath it. Graphite is a form of carbon.

Other graphite deposits are soft, but this deposit was solid. Bits could be sawn off into sticks. The locals used these sticks for marking sheep. Today it remains the only graphite deposit found in solid form.

• Because solid graphite had never been heard of, people mistook it for a form of lead, giving us what we now call “pencil lead” even though pencils have no lead in them.

• The news of these writing sticks spread around the world, and England held a monopoly on pencils for centuries.

• The first pencils made from these graphite sticks were wrapped in string or leather.

Around 1560, an Italian couple invented the prototype for the modern-day pencil by encasing a stick of graphite inside a hollowed-out stick of wood. This prevented the pencil lead from breaking and prevented the black carbon from rubbing off on the fingers. Later, this method was improved by splitting a stick in half, hollowing out the center, inserting the graphite, and then gluing the two halves of the stick together.

This is how pencils are still made today.

• During the Napoleonic wars, England refused to export any graphite to France, and Napoleon desperate foroffice pencils.

A dentist decidedwas to rent some extra In 1795, officer Nicholas Jacques Conte space in his suite to a manicurist. It didn’t ground soft graphite into powder, mixed it work out,pressed though, itbecause after aand fewbaked with clay, into sticks, them in a they kiln.were The fighting successtooth of this months, andformula nail. broke the English monopoly on pencils because soft graphite is widely available.

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• A tree can make around 300,000 pencils.

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• You can make pencil marks permanent by washing them in skimmed milk.

• Carpenters’ pencils are rectangular so they don’t roll away during work.

• John Steinbeck is said to have used more than 300 pencils to write his novel “East of Eden.”

• During World War II rotary pencil sharpeners were outlawed in Britain because they wasted so much scarce graphite and wood, so pencils had to be sharpened with knives.

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● On Jan. 2, 1811, Senator Timothy Pickering, a Federalist from Massachusetts, becomes the first senator to be censured by the Senate. Pickering was accused of revealing to the public secret foreign-policy documents sent by the president to Congress. ● On Jan. 5, 1914, the Ford Motor Company rolls out a series of initiatives targeted at improving the lives of its workers. Along with boosting the company’s minimum wage to $5 per day, Ford also unveiled plans to trim its work day to eight hours. ● On Jan. 4, 1936, Bob Hope debuts on network radio in the cast of “The Intimate Revue.” Hope, born Leslie Townes Hope in London, made his film debut three years later in “The Big Broadcast of 1938,” singing “Thanks for the Memory.” ● On Jan. 1, 1953, country singer Hank Williams, 29, dies of a heart attack in the back of a limousine on the way to a show in Canton, Ohio. Media speculated that his death may have resulted from drug and alcohol abuse. His hits included “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” ● On Jan. 3, 1969, some 30,000 copies of the John Lennon-Yoko Ono album Two Virgins are confiscated by police at Newark Airport in New Jersey. The album’s cover featured a nude picture of Lennon and Ono, which was deemed pornographic. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

• Until the 1770s, the only way of erasing pencil marks was to take a bit of bread, moisten it, ball it up, and rub it on the paper. Then one day British engineer Edward Nairne absentmindedly picked up a piece of rubber instead of breadcrumbs, and discovered it erased the pencil marks even better.

• Pencils leave a mark on paper because the graphite mixes with the fiber in the paper. Erasers work because their polymers are stickier than the paper, so graphite particles stick to the eraser instead of the paper.

• Teachers originally resisted the idea of having pencils equipped with erasers because they felt it encouraged students to make mistakes.

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The invention heralded the modern era of machine data processing.

• Born in Buffalo, NY, Hollerith received a Ph.D. in engineering from Columbia University in 1890, and taught mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before going to work for the Census Bureau.

• Hollerith’s job with the Census Bureau involved compiling statistics. Back then, it took 8 years to tabulate the census information— and the census was taken once every 10 years. Hollerith knew there must be a better way. He worked on the problem even after leaving the Census Office for a better job with an engineering firm.

• Then one day he took a train trip. The railroad had been plagued with robbers who posed as passengers. To help catch them, the engineers kept track of everybody on board. They had a card for every person on board, and would punch holes in it to record descriptions of the passengers: punch here for light hair; there for dark hair. Punch out A, B, or C for blue eyes, brown eyes, or green eyes. Punch this corner for short people, or that corner for tall people. This gave Hollerith an idea.

• Several weeks later his invention was ready: an electric tabulator. Wherever there was a hole in a card, an electrical connection would be made and a counter would register it.

• He subsequently set up the Tabulating Machine Company and began to improve the design of an automatic card-feed system, a keypunch, and punch cards, which formed the foundation of the modern information processing industry.

• Hollerith fought an uphill battle to get the notice he deserved. For three years he tried unsuccessfully to get financial backing and corporate interest. Finally, he asked Boston city officials to let him tabulate the town’s death records. In just a few days, he tabulated data that would have kept many clerks busy for weeks. People were finally impressed, and the Army hired him to tabulate some statistics. Next he took his invention to the Paris Exposition, where he won a gold medal.

• Then he applied for the job of tabulating the 1890 census. The Bureau of the Census set up a competition between all people who were interested in the contract. Herman and his electric tabulator were finished before the others were half through. He got the job. When the census was taken, it took Herman and 30 electric tabulators only six weeks to compile most of the information that had previously required eight years to accomplish.

• His tabulator machines rapidly spread across the world. Countries around the world used them for their census taking, and insurance companies used them as well. Even today, his method of keeping track of information is used everywhere extensively.

• In 1910, Hollerith sold his Tabulating Machine Company for a few million dollars, but he never liked the new president. In fact, he refused to buy any stock in the company. Perhaps he came to regret that, for if Herman Hollerith had invested $200,000 in that business in 1910, it would have been worth about a billion dollars by 1970. The new owners changed the name of the company and eventually became one of the world’s largest corporations, selling computer hardware and software. Can you name the company?

The company is called International Business Machines, or IBM.

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New Year Offers Fresh Start Have you made your New Year’s resolutions? I’ve rarely been successful keeping mine. One problem is that they were always too vague. (“Get fit.” “Eat right.”) Or maybe they were too stringent. (“Work out at the gym every day.” “Save $50 every month.”)

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Body: Get up and exercise during TV commercials. Join a walking group or walk a neighbor’s dog. Eat broccoli (that’s a tough one).

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