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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY (cont.): • On November 30, 1954, as a Sylacauga, Alabama woman lay sleeping on her couch, a meteorite crashed through her roof, bounced off a radio, and struck her, the first modern record of such an occurrence. Measuring about 8 inches in diameter and weighing about 9 lbs., the sulfide space rock did not permanently injure Mrs. Hulett Hodges, but it did leave a 3-ft. hole in her roof. • Rosa Parks made history when she stepped onto a Montgomery, Alabama bus on December 1, 1955. Headed for home from her job at a local department store Rosa took a seat in the 11th row of the bus, the first row of the section reserved for blacks. As the bus filled up, three whites were left standing. The driver demanded that four black people give up their seats. Three black men moved, but Rosa refused to surrender her place. Although she had not technically broken any law, she was arrested for violating city code and for disorderly conduct. Within four days, a boycott of the city’s buses was in place, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because 75% of bus customers were black, the finances of the public bus companies plunged. Yet it still took 381 days for an agreement to be reached on the end of segregation. • The Ford Motor Company dramatically shortened the time it took to assemble an automobile when they launched a continuousmoving assembly line on December 1, 1913. A complete car could be produced every 2 ½ minutes, a reduction from the previous time of 12 hours. By producing vehicles so efficiently, Ford was able to substantially lower the price of the Model T, from $825 to $575. ...continued

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• This week was an important one in the history of heart surgeries. On December 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Barnard removed the heart of a 25-year-old woman killed in an auto accident and placed it in the chest of 55-year-old Louis Washkansky, who was dying of heart damage. For 18 days, the transplanted heart functioned normally; however, the antirejection drugs Washkansky was given left him susceptible to illness. Her perished from double pneumonia on December 21. Fifteen years later, during the same week, Dr. William DeVries implanted the first permanent artificial heart, designed by Dr. Robert Jarvik, in Seattle dentist Barney Clark. Mr. Clark survived 112 days with the device. • On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy torpedo bombers departed from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station for a three-hour training mission over the Atlantic. The five aircraft carrying a total of 14 men were known as Flight 19 and were scheduled to fly east for 120 miles, north for 73 miles, then back another 120 miles to the base. Two hours into the flight, the squadron leader radioed that his compass had failed and that he did not know his position. The other

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“If the shoe fits, wear it.” That phrase could have been the inspiration for Charles Brannock’s famous 1926 invention. Follow along and learn about the invention of the shoe-measuring device. • Charles Brannock was raised in the shoe business. In 1903, when he was three years old, his father Otis Brannock and Ernest Park founded the ParkBrannock Shoe Company in downtown Syracuse, New York. The company continually expanded, offering a wide selection of all shoes, handbags, hats, hose, and accessories. Charles worked as a salesman while attending Syracuse University. • Dissatisfied with the shoe size-sticks known as RITZ sticks, an industry standard, Brannock began tinkering with an improved foot-measuring device. While the sticks measured only the foot’s length, Brannock’s sketches and calculations represented an apparatus that would measure length, width, and distance from the heel to the ball of the foot to determine arch length. His prototype was built from an Erector set. • The Brannock Device improved accuracy to about 96%. It began with a man’s size 1 measurement of 7 2/3 inches, with each additional size adding 1/3 inch. Each width was separated by 3/16 inch. The widths were divided into nine sizes, AAA, AA, A, B, C, D, E, EE, and EEE. There were also two knobs for adjusting the fit for the curve of the heel, along with a sliding bar for adjusting for thin feet and wide feet. The device remains much the same today, with very little change.

• Brannock assembled the device right in the family shoe store, and its trials were conducted there, where it was used exclusively. Park-Brannock was the only store in town to measure feet so accurately. At age 25, Brannock obtained a patent, established the Brannock Device Company, and began sales of the apparatus to other shoe retailers. He then hired salesmen throughout the country. By 1929, the device was being sold internationally. • In 1933, a U.S. Navy captain was looking into why so many sailors had problems with their feet, and asked a shoe salesman for his advice. The salesman measured the sailors’ feet with a Brannock device, and informed the captain that the only problem was ill-fitting shoes. That captain wrote an article about this simple solution in the July, 1933 issue of United States Naval Institute Proceedings. Brannock seized the opportunity to expand his business by forwarding the article, first to other naval ships, then on to other branches of the military. By World War II, his device was in use by most of the armed forces. • Following the death of his father in 1962, Brannock added to his own manufacturing company work load by becoming CEO of Park-Brannock Shoes. He continued to come to the office of Brannock Devices on a daily basis well into his 80s. When his health began to fail, he thought about selling the business, but many prospective buyers wanted to change the device to a plastic material. To Brannock, this was a non-negotiable point, and he insisted that the devices be manufactured from steel. • Brannock passed away in 1993 at age 89. The company was purchased from his estate by Sal Leonardi, who has maintained the business just as Brannock would have wanted it.

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• The most common Bingo cards have 25 squares in a five row by five row configuration. The squares contain numbers from 1 Answer: Dell. to 75, with the center square a “Free” space, A VERY LARGE NUMBER considered automatically filled. The letters • of Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 the word BINGO head up each of the five he was asked to come up with a name for a columns. The “B” column contains numbers very large number: the numeral one, followed from 1 to 15, “I” has 16 to 30, “N” has 31 to by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young 45, and numbers 61 towould 75 aresuggest. listed in the nephewsthe what name they “O” column. • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name • There to achieve a Bingo. out of are the several funnies.ways A cartoon strip character The most common is, ofpopular. course,Milton to fill achose line named Barney was very Barney’s last name for theornumber. vertically, horizontally, diagonally. Also is “Four Corners,” requires • popular Kasner announced the new which name for the biga player to cover the game card’s four corners. number in his next book, altering the spelling. The L” Larry pattern requires the entire • Sixty“Roving years later, Page and Sergey Brin “B” column to be covered along withOther the developed a new internet search engine. search enginesrow, searched and top or bottom or the each entirewebpage “O” column ranked to how many an times and the them top oraccording bottom row, forming “L.”a specific term appeared Page The Cross pattern formsona them, centerbut cross on and the Brin designed their search engine to search for card. And, of course, covering all the squares theaspecific term and then find out how many on card is called a “blackout.” links there were that led back to that page, • The “bubble” to thesearch minimum number which resultedrefers in a better engine. of balls necessary to complete a Bingo • They decided they needed a name patthat tern, the earliest point websites a player could have reflected how many the search aengine valid Bingo. If a player achieves a “Hardwas searching. They took the name of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only Way Bingo,” the bingo is a straight line withtheyusing misspelled it slightly, it ended up being out the Free space insothe middle. spelled exactly the same way the cartoon • What about whenspelled a player out “Bingo!” character Barney hiscalls last name. What’s but is actually mistaken? There are several it called? (Answer at bottom of page) names given to this blunder – “falsie,” “just COMPUTER FACTS practicing,” “social error,” or “bongo.” • In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory • It’s estimated that for people spend more than ought to be enough anybody.” $90 million dollars each week playing bingo • Moore’s Law states that computer performance in Northevery America alone. doubles 18 to 24 months, and ever since 1971, this has been true. Thanks for Reading Tidbits! • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all started in garages. Answer: Google, from googol. .COM

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