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His bride was frequently Judson marketed his with the opening the Frisbee in honor of the pie company, Electric had already marketed a toaster cutting her fingers while preparing of the Universal Fastener Company, although it altered the spelling slightly. in 1909, their model only toasted one meals, and he was patching up her giving him recognition as the inventor. Incidentally, William Morrison’s family side at a time and had to be manually injuries with gauze and adhesive tape. However, his original zipper bore little was no stranger to inventing — his turned off. Strite added springs and a Dickson developed a compact bandage resemblance to those of today. One of father had invented the automotive timer to his appliance and patented his of small pieces of gauze and surgical Judson’s employees, Gideon Sundback, sealed-beam headlight. “Toastmaster.” His later models added a tape that could be easily applied, and actually developed a design with lightness and darkness lever. pitched his idea to plant management. interlocking teeth, and received a patent • A different kind of disc was developed in A position as company vice president • While Swiss chemist and textile engineer 1971 by Alan Shugart, an engineer at IBM. first for his “Hookless Fastener,” then came along as the years went by, as Jacques Brandenberger was seated in a Shugart introduced the first “memory another for the improved “Separable well as a place on the board of directors. restaurant in the early 1900s, a glass of disc,” better known as the floppy disc, an Fastener.” Whitcomb Judson was no When Dickson died in 1961, Johnson wine was spilled on the tablecloth. As 8-inch flexible plastic device coated with stranger to the world of inventions, & Johnson’s sales of Band-Aids topped the chemist watched the waiter replace magnetic iron oxide, capable of storing having been awarded 30 patents $30 million a year. the cloth, an idea occurred to him — a computer data. This first floppy disc could throughout his career, including 14 transparent, protective film that would hold 100 KBs of data. Todays flash drives • As a Minnesota manufacturing plant patents for a street railway system that make cloth waterproof. After many hold over 100 thousand times that. worker during the World War I era, ran on compressed air. experiments, he came up with what we information Charles Strite partook of his meals know today as cellophane. The first • Although Sarah Boone wasn’t the first to invent an ironing company to use cellophane in the board, she is credited with United States was the Whitman’s a major improvement to the candy company, which wrapped design. Patent No. 473,653 its fine chocolates in the film. was issued to this former slave Brandenberger’s patent rights were in April of 1892, making her later sold to the Dupont company. - Volunteers, ages 3 months to 17 years of age, are needed In 1912, one of the first, if not the first If so, you may have Toenail Fungus. African-American woman to for a research study of an investigational topical medication • Josephine Cochran didn’t receive a patent. An “ironing being conducted at the Minnesota Clinical Study Center invent the mechanical dishwasher The Minnesota Clinical Study Center would like you to call about a research table” patent had been because she was tired of washing awarded in 1858, but Boone’s located in Fridley, MN. study of an investigational drug for people with toenail fungus. dishes. 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• Thomas Jefferson wore many hats over the course of his lifetime — lawyer, statesman, architect, agronomist, linguist, naturalist. This third President of the United States also penned the Declaration of Independence. In addition to his many political activities, Jefferson was also the inventor of the swivel chair, a plow, a portable copying press, a macaroni-making machine, and mechanical dumbwaiters that enabled his servants to send wine bottles from the cellar to the dining room at Monticello.

• ACanadian inventor, Harry Wasylyk, hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, is responsible for the invention of the disposable green polyethylene garbage bag. He started his operation in his kitchen in 1950, intending them for commercial use only, rather than for ordinary consumers. His first customer was the Winnipeg General Hospital. He teamed up with an employee of an Ontario Union Carbide plant, Larry Hanson, and the pair sold their invention to Union Carbide, who marketed them for home use under the name “Glad.”

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