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On August 17, 1835, the first wrench was patented by Solyman Merrick of Massachusetts. Come along with Tidbits as we use tools! CAULKING GUN • Canadian Theodore Witte of Chilliwhack, BC, was pretty good at home repairs but he sure got tired of trying to smooth out putty around windows using a putty knife. One day in 1894, he was at the bakery, watching a baker put icing on a cake using a cake decorator’s gun to force the frosting into a smooth, controllable line. Why couldn’t putty be that easy? Witte went home and designed what he called a “puttying tool” that allowed putty to be applied in one continuous smooth seam. Unfortunately, the putty industry didn’t pay much attention and Witte never made much money from his invention, today known as the caulking gun. HAMMER FACTS • The word ‘smith’ comes from the Saxon word which means ‘to smite.’ In the olden days, a smith was anyone who worked with a hammer, whether he was hammering wood, metal, or stone. Thus there were blacksmiths, clocksmiths, coppersmiths, goldsmiths, gunsmiths, locksmiths, silversmiths, and so on. And since all these smiths needed a hammer, there were also hammersmiths.

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A NEW SCREW

• Henry, a businessman from Portland, Oregon, noted that sometimes screws and screwdrivers just didn’t work like they should. They were fine for home repairs and general carpentry, but there were problems when it came to assembly lines. In the 1930s, automobile manufacturers were screwing millions of screws per minute with power screwdrivers. With power tools, not only was it difficult to fit the screwdriver into the slot of a standard screw, but centrifugal force tended to force the screwdriver to slide out of the slot. Once the standard screw was screwed in all the way, the power screwdriver continued to spin, which either stripped the screw, stalled the screwdriver, or damaged the part. • Henry invented a screw with a cross-shaped slot that could be driven with more torque and would hold tighter than regular slotted screws. He named it after himself. His new screwdriver, with its pointed tip, engaged the screw much more easily and did not slip out. The indentation in the screw was so shallow that when the screw was finished screwing, the screwdriver tip simply popped out. • The new screw was first used in building the 1936 Cadillac and proved so effective that within two years all car manufacturers had switched. In 1936 Henry received patents for both the screw and the screwdriver, but it was so widely copied that he lost the patent in 1949. Henry died in 1958 at age 68 after seeing his screw- named after his last namebecome an industry standard. What was his name? Henry Phillips invented the Phillips screwdriver.

BLACK & DECKER

• In 1910, Duncan Black and Alonzo G. Decker set up a small machine shop in Baltimore. In 1917 they invented a portable handheld drill which led to them becoming one of the most successful tool companies in the U.S.

RACHET WRENCH

• Before 1964, there were socket sets but the old-fashioned socket wrench that went with the set had to be twisted endlessly. In 1964, an 18-year-old kid named Peter Roberts was tinkering around in his dad’s garage. His father repaired lawn mowers in his spare time and sometimes Peter helped • He informed the youth that Sears was • Then he hired an inventor name David Misell, prepared to offer him two cents for every who had invented the bicycle light. While him out. one of his ratchet wrenches they sold- with working for Hubert, Misell invented the • One day Peter decided that repairing lawn the stipulation that they would not owe flashlight, assigning the patent to Hubert. mowers would be a lot easier if only the him any further royalties after $10,000. He It was called the flashlight because at first socket wrench had a button that would said it might take Peter years to collect the it would only light up for a moment or two release the socket from the grip of the maximum amount of the royalties owed before going out. Hubert tinkered with the wrench. He made one up himself, and it him. Peter signed the patent over to Sears. invention, improved it, patented it in 1903, worked. The ratchet wrench was born. A year later he was amazed to receive the and handed out samples to New York City entire $10,000 in a single check. cops, who gave him rave reviews. Within a • Peter, who was a junior in high school, few years Hubert was a millionaire. worked part-time at the local Sears store. • Suspecting that he had been taken, Peter He took the new wrench to show his boss, went to court. His lawyer argued that Sears • In 1914 the National Carbon Company who showed it to his boss, who showed it to was guilty of fraud by leading Peter to (which supplied Hubert with his materials) all the company executives at headquarters believe that they would only be able to sell bought half interest in the company, and the in Chicago. Nearly a year went by and Peter a few wrenches per year when in reality they name of the firm was changed. Production assumed no one was interested in his had sold over a million. He also pointed out of the batteries used in flashlights overtook invention. Then a lawyer came to visit Peter. that Peter had been a minor when he signed production of flashlights. During the Great the contract. The judge agreed. Not only did Depression, advertisements for the company he award Peter Roberts damages of around consistently depicted a child, a pet, and a a million bucks, but he also gave Peter the flashlight in various Norman Rockwell-like patent back. situations. One such ad showed a young girl checking on a litter of nine kittens using her A FLASHLIGHT BATTERY flashlight. This image became so popular that thousands of posters were sold, giving • Russian immigrant Akiba Horowitz changed the company a new icon: a cat with nine lives. his name to Conrad Hubert when he came What is the name of the company? to America in 1891. He was fascinated by the invention of electricity. Hubert began Answer: Eveready, now owned by Energizer to tinker. He invented a number of electrical IT’S A FACT novelties, such as a portable fan and an illuminated flower pot. He named his • When Commander Alan Bean walked on the moon, he tried to fix a TV camera that was not business the American Electrical Novelty and working by hitting it with a hammer. He failed. Manufacturing Company.

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Famous Canadians

NORMAN BREAKEY

• Norman James Breakey was born February 25th, 1891 in Pierson, Manitoba. Around 1940, he came up with an idea that would make painting large areas much easier. • At the time, the standard paint brush was the only method available, and the labor was difficult: “Take a paint brush in your right hand, or your left hand if you are left handed, or both hands if it is a big brush. Dip the brush into a can of paint and raise it above your head, being careful not to let the paint roll down your arm. Dab it on the ceiling, repeat the process hundreds of times. Then—take a bath.” Norman Breakey devised a cylinder covered in fabric that picked up more paint than a brush. It was the pre-curser to the modern paint roller. • Breakey approached Tom Hamilton, an executive for A.B. Caya Fabrics, for advice on what type of fabric to use to cover his roller. Years later, Hamilton recalled: “He wanted my opinion on the best kind of fabric that offered a stiff bristly nap. I asked for what purpose, and he said ‘For rolling paint.’ I scratched my head at that but he resolutely went on and described to me something with a handle shaped like a ‘7’ that would hold a cardboard, fabric-covered cylinder. ‘If my theory is right this thing will revolutionize painting in Canada,’ he said. Well, the best thing I could think of was that

bristly green mohair velour that was used to cover railway touring coaches in those days. So I sold him a bolt of that, told him how to cut it on the bias, suggested some glues and away he went, beaming out the door. Later he came by and thanked me for my advice. He gave me one of his original rollers and a tray that had been hammered out by a local tinsmith. Neither of us knew then how big his invention would get to be.” • Unfortunately, Breakey lacked the money to produce a significant supply of rollers on his own. Attempts to persuade investors to back him failed. Meanwhile, people started tinkering with the design, altering it just enough to that they were able to apply for their own patents. • When hogs’ hair bristles became scarce during World War II, an inventor named Richard Croxton Adams working for Sherwin-Williams in Cleveland, Ohio, made a paint roller called a “Roller-Koater” that did not use bristles. Adams became the first U.S. patent holder for a paint roller. • At least one account claims Breakey died poor and unknown not long after he came up with his invention. He went without

public notice until 1967, when he was listed in both the inventors volume of McClelland & Stewart’s Canadian Centennial Library and a Maclean’s feature called “Who’s Who of Canadian What’s His Names.” Breakey may have been under-heralded in life, but his work has aided generations of painters. • Here are some tips for the next time you use one of Norman Breakey’s rollers: Use a lint roller on your paint roller to get loose bits of fuzz off it prior to painting. Use a Swiffer on your walls to collect dust before painting. Line your paint tray with a plastic bag so you won’t have to clean it, then put the paint tray inside a cardboard box tray, such as the ones that come underneath a flat of water bottles. Paint large surfaces using a pattern of large ‘Ws’ across the wall, back and forth. Cover places like hinges and door knobs with Vasoline to prevent paint from sticking. If the painter’s tape won’t peel, put it in a microwave for 10 seconds. Alcohol wipes such as those found in first aid kits will wipe up paint drips, and Q-tips will touch up tiny spots. Store the paint roller in a Ziplok baggie in a Pringles can to keep it fresh over night.

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for so long, paint had a very negative stigma which needed to be overcome. Henry and Edward decided to offer people a ‘money-back guarantee’ stating that their money would be cheerfully refunded if they were not completely satisfied. This was the first company ever to offer a money-back guarantee, and it gained the public’s confidence.

• In 1866 Henry bought an Ohio paint manufacturing company for $2,000. Four years later, he became a partner with a man named Edward. Back then, painting was a tricky, difficult business, and only professionals did it. The paint had to be hand • When the partners discovered that automobile paint took 21 days to dry, they developed mixed, stirred often, and used before it dried a quick-dry paint that would dry in a in the container. Henry and Edward wanted matter of hours. They supplied the Army to be able to sell paint directly to the people, with camouflage paint during the war. so they knew they had to make it easy. Their company transformed the industry • First they developed pre-mixed paint, then from something that was difficult even for they invented the re-sealable paint can. They professionals to accomplish to something that created different paints for different surfaces, was entirely user-friendly. The company is since metal, wood, and brick all react named after Henry and Edward’s last names. differently to paint. They perfected interior What’s the company called? and exterior paints. They even developed different paints for different climates.

Answer: Sherwin-Williams.

• Because there had been so many shoddy paint FISH OIL PAINT companies selling such poor quality paint • Robert Fergusson ran away from his home in

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Scotland at the age of 12, and went to seek adventure on the sea. His duties included swabbing and re-painting the rusty metal deck, a tedious chore. One day he lunged for an open container of raw fish oil trying to catch it before it spilled, but failed. It spread all over the deck. In the days following the spill, he noticed that the rust that had been relentlessly creeping across the deck stopped where the fish oil had spilled. He remembered this fact throughout his long career as a sea captain. • After settling in New Orleans, he frequently experimented with fish oil-based paints. The problem was that they smelled terrible and took forever to dry. When Fergusson was 42 years old, he was put in charge of a fleet of ships during World War I. Taking the opportunity to do further experiments with fish oil, he finally hit on a formula that smelled better, dried fast, and stopped rust overnight. • After the war, he founded a paint company in 1921, which did quite well. Today it’s a worldwide leader in protective paints and coatings for both home and industry, and still offers the famous rust-fighting formula that started it all back in 1921. The company’s motto, ‘Rust Never Sleeps’, was created by the members of the rock group Devo when they worked for an Ohio advertising agency prior to becoming famous. What’s the name of the company? -Rust-oleum

DÉCOR BY ABE • When Abe Lincoln was a boy, he saw some boys wading in a mud puddle near the house.

He called them over and one by one he held them upsidedown and had them “walk” their muddy feet up the walls and across the whitewashed ceiling. As soon as his stepmother quit laughing, she made Abe repaint.

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▶ 26-year-old Mikhail Baryshnikov ran out of the O’Keefe Centre in Toronto following a performance in 1974, defecting from Soviet Russia and seeking asylum first in Canada and then in the U.S. ▶ A lawyer in Toronto fell to his death in 1993 after he threw himself against a window on the 24th floor of a building in an attempt to prove to a group of visitors that the glass was “unbreakable”, an act he had done twice before. The glass did not break, but popped out of the window frame, having possibly been loosened by his previous attempts to break it. ▶ Just who was Edmund Fitzgerald, anyway? In 1958 he was the president and chairman of the board for Northwest Mutual Life Insurance, the company which commissioned the building of the ship. ▶ Why does Canadian beer taste different from American beer? Because American brewers use more corn.

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The Bug Guys @ The Museum Saturday, August 23, 2014 from 10am to 12pm at Vernon Museum & Archives, 3009 32nd Avenue, Vernon. Calling all bug and reptile lovers of all ages! Don’t miss this opportunity to see these bizarre, beautiful, and fascinating creatures up close and personal. Stuart Brown of The Bug Guys is back for his fifth year, entertaining the enthused and the squeamish onlookers with his creepy crawlies. As space is limited we encourage those interested to purchase their tickets early. Cost: $3.00/ person. For more information please call (250) 543-3142 or visit www. vernonmuseum.ca or www.facebook.com/vernonmuseum.

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