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• The very first patent awarded to a woman was for a process of weaving straw with silk or thread for hat-making. President James Madison signed the patent for Connecticut resident Mary Dixon Kies in 1809. Her technique was especially valuable in the manufacture of reasonably-priced work bonnets. Unfortunately, a change in fashion kept her from profiting much from her invention, and she died penniless in 1837. The previous year, her original patent file was destroyed in a fire at the U.S. Patent Office.

• The first two African-American women to receive patents both invented items to make home life easier. Washington, D.C. resident Judy Reed received her patent in September of 1884 for a dough kneader and roller. Unable to read or write, Judy signed Patent No. 305,474 with an “X.” Ten months later, Sarah E. Goode, who owned a furniture store in Chicago, was awarded a patent for a clever folding bed that could be transformed into a desk.

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• In 1850, 12-year-old Margaret Knight was working at a New Hampshire textile mill when she witnessed the injury of a co-worker by a faulty piece of equipment. She was inspired to create a device that would automatically stop a machine if something was caught in it, an invention that was put to use in mills while Margaret was still a teenager. In her 30s, Margaret went to work at Massachusetts’ Columbia Paper Bag Company. At that time, paper bag bottoms were not flat, and Margaret concluded that a bag with a flat bottom would be much easier to load items. At age 33, she received one of her 27 patents, for a machine that cut, folded, and glued the shopping bags, eliminating the need for assembly by hand. Margaret’s other patents included a shoe-manufacturing machine, a rotary engine, an internal combustion engine, a numbering machine and a dress shield that protected women’s garments from perspiration stains. Her obituary in 1914 described her as a “woman Edison.”

• Another ingenious 12-year-old girl invented an apparatus that was of immense help to people with communication disabilities. In the mid1980s, Canadian Rachel Zimmerman designed a software program that enabled non-speaking people to communicate through the use of symbols. The user touches the various symbols using a special touch pad, and Zimmerman’s Blissymbol Printer transcribes them into written language. The printer started out as a school science fair project, and moved on to competition at the World Exhibition of Achievement of Young Inventors, winning the silver medal.

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• Maria Beasley’s first invention was patented in 1878 for a barrel-hooping machine, which enabled manufacturers to make 1,500 barrels a day, an invention that netted Beasley a small fortune.

She also was responsible for a coffee-brewing system using a filter made of thick, absorbent paper punched with holes. She patented the filtering method in 1908 and founded a company that is still in existence today. Foot warmers, cooking pans, a steam generator and a device that keeps trains from being derailed were all patented by Beasley. But it was her invention of the life raft, patented in 1882 that made her famous. She improved upon her raft design twice, and obtained patents in Britain as well as the U.S. It was Beasley’s life rafts that were used on the Titanic.

• It was during a visit to New York City in 1902 that Alabama native Mary Anderson conceived the idea of a vehicle window cleaning device.

While riding the trolley on a cold drizzly day, Mary noticed that the driver had to open the windows of the streetcar in order to see. Upon returning home, she devised a hand-operated device with a swinging arm and rubber blade operated by the driver from inside the vehicle.

She was granted Patent No. 743,801 in 1903 for her invention. By 1916, windshield wipers were standard equipment for American automobiles. Unfortunately, Mary was unable to cash in on her idea to any great degree. Manufacturing firms rejected her application, saying, “We do not consider it to be of such commercial value as would warrant our undertaking its sale.” Having been granted a 17-year patent, it expired in 1920.

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• On Feb. 27, 1776, Commander Richard Caswell leads 1,000 Patriot troops in the successful Battle of Moores Creek over 1,600 British Loyalists. It was the first American victory in the first organized campaign of the Revolutionary War. • On Feb. 28, 1784, John Wesley charters the first Methodist Church in the United States.

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• On March 3, 1863, during the Civil War, Congress passes a conscription act that produces the first wartime draft of U.S. citizens. The act called for registration of all males between the ages of 20 and 45. Exemptions from the draft could be bought for $300.

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South America, in 1493, Christopher Columbus happened on to them on the Caribbean island of • The difference in color of pineapples is not an indication of their ripeness, but rather where they were Guadalupe and brought them back to Spain, grown. A green pineapple and a golden calling them pina de Indes, meaning “pine brown one can both be ready to eat. Once of the Indians,” because of the fruit’s rethey’ve been harvested, pineapples do semblance to pine cones. Explorer Fernot continue to ripen. Leaving it on the dinand Magellan discovered pineapples in kitchen counter for a week will not cause it Brazil in 1519, and by 1555, the fruit was to ripen more. In fact, a fully ripe pineapple being successfully exported to England, folis very perishable and should be eaten within lowed soon after by exports to India, Asia, two days if left at room temperature and up to and the West Indies. Captain James Cook ina week if refrigerated. The sweetest part is the troduced pineapple to Hawaii around 1770. outermost flesh, so the skin should be sliced • We might think that most pineapples come off the sides as thinly as possible. from Hawaii, but the majority of the world’s • James Drummond Dole moved to Hapineapples actually come from Southeast waii in 1899 and started up a 60-acre pineAsia, the Philippines, and Thailand. apple plantation in 1900. He began can• A pineapple isn’t a single fruit, but rather ning pineapple in Hawaii in 1903. The Del a group of berries that have fused together Monte Company started growing the fruit in around the core. Approximately 200 flowers, 1917. By 1921, pineapples were Hawaii’s largvarying in color from lavender to bright red, est crop and industry. Dole closed its cannery join together to create a single fruit. The fruit takes operations in Hawaii in 1991, and Del Monte pulled about two years to mature, and it’s not unusual for out of pineapple growing in 2008. Hawaii’s last pinea pineapple to reach 20 lbs. The plant can live and apple cannery closed in 2006. While Dole maintains produce for up to 50 years. its plantations in Hawaii, only fresh pineapples are • Pineapples are rich in bromelain, an enzyme that exported. produces many health benefits, including anti• If you’re in Hawaii asking for a pineapple, you would inflammatory, muscle relaxant, and digestive aid request hala kahiki. properties. Bromelain also contains chemicals that can slow the growth of tumor cells. Pineapple can • Pineapples aren’t just for eating. In the Philippines, the fruit’s leaves are used to produce a textile fiber help arthritis pain and they are also a good source of used in clothing, wallpaper, and home furnishings.

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• You've almost certainly heard people refer to the school they attended as their alma mater, but do you know where the term comes from? In Latin, "alma mater" means "bounteous mother." It was in the early 1800s that people began applying the term their beloved schools.

• The skin of the African elephant, the largest land animal alive in the world today, weighs 2,000 pounds by itself.

• You might be surprised to learn that the bagpipe did not originate in Scotland. This ancient instrument existed in Asia in the pre-Christian era.

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• Those who keep track of such things say that, across the globe, there are more people who have cellphones than have toilets • If you're like most Americans, you've probably played with a NERF ball at some point in your life. You might not realize, though, that NERF stands for Non-Expanding Recreational Foam.

• Actor Tom Cruise attended 15 different schools when he was growing up. *** Thought for the Day: "A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it."

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• Mothers everywhere should be grateful to a post-World War II Connecticut housewife and mother, Answer: Dell.Marion Donovan. After dealing with the A thankless job of changing her baby’s VERY LARGE NUMBER cloth diapers, crib sheets, and clothing, she •developed Edward Kasner was a mathematician.

1938 a waterproof diaper coverInusing he was asked to come up with a name for a a very shower andthea numeral sewing machine.

She largecurtain number: one, followed added plastic snaps to replace safety pins and by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young named the what invention After pitchnephews name the they“boater.” would suggest. ing the product to several manufacturers with • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name nooutresults, sold the diapers strip at Saks Fifth of theshe funnies.

A cartoon character Avenue.

Within two years, in 1951, she had named Barney was very popular. Milton chose sold her patents and for company for $1,000,000.

Barney’s last name the number.

Her next project was a fully disposable diaper, • Kasner announced the new name for the big but she had securing a manufacturer. number in no hisluck nextinbook, altering the spelling.

1951later, andLarry 1996,Page Marion granted •Between Sixty years and was Sergey Brin 20developed patents, including a specialized towelOther disa new internet search engine. penser, a closet organizer, hosiery clamp, fasearch engines searched each webpage and cial tissuethem box,according and a two-ply dental thata ranked to how manyfloss times specificaterm on them, but Page and featured loopappeared for the finger.

In addition, she Brin designed their search engine to search for received an architecture degree from Yale Unithe specific term and then find out how many versity at age 41. links there were that led back to that page, • Aswhich a child in Virginia insearch the 1920s, resulted in a better engine.Bessie Blount Griffin was left-handed.

• They decided they needed a After namebeing that scolded by the taughtthe herself to reflected howteacher, manyBessie websites search write with both hands, both feet, and by holdengine was searching. They took the name ing pencil with her teeth.

Yearsnumber, later during of aEdward Kasner’s very large only World War II, as Bessie worked with wounded they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being spelled she exactly sametoway the ancartoon soldiers, was the inspired invent eleccharacter Barney spelled his lasthelp name.

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(Answer at bottom of page)tube confeed themselves through a feeding COMPUTER FACTS trolled by biting on the tube.

When the United Veterans Administration to ac•States In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 refused kb of memory ought be enough she for anybody.” cept hertoinvention, sold it to the French for many years as •government.

Moore’s LawBessie states worked that computer performance a doubles physicalevery therapist, followed by a career as a 18 to 24 months, and ever since 1971, this has been true. forensic scientist.

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