When we say, "Somebody should do something about it", we should remember we are that somebody.
On this day, 05 Feb....
1825 - Housewife Hannah Lord Montague of Troy, New York, took her scissors and created the first detachable collar on one of her husband's shirts in order to reduce her laundry load to the collar only. Her husband showed his wife's invention to other men around town. Their wives embraced this new invention. Merchants followed suit, and manufactured collars in mass quantities for sale to the outside world. Woodsheds, garrets and store fronts became collar making places as people were drawn to this new trade by its apparent simplicity. Troy, became "Collar City" to the rest of America.
1850 - Gail Borden of Brooklyn, New York, was issued a U.S. patent for his process that baked a combination of extracts from meat with flour to produce a meat biscuit capable of long term storage. This gave a convenient method that a preserved meat-based product could be carried by the military, seamen and other travellers. Because it could be reconstitued with hot water as a soup, the patent title was “Preparation of Portable Soup-Bread.” Six years later, he perfected a process to heat milk in a vacuum to produce condensed milk capable of extended storage. He started a company to distribute the condensed milk in large cities. The Borden company is today one of the largest dairy product concerns in the world.
186 - A stereoscope design that may be regarded as the first U.S. precursor to the peep show machine was patented by Samuel D. Goodale of Cincinnati.
1884 - Black American inventor Willis Johnson of Cincinnati, Ohio, was issued a U.S. patent for an "Egg Beater".
1922 - Readers Digest First Published. DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila Wallace publish the first Reader's Digest magazine designed to provide abridged articles on a wide variety of subjects, for easy reading.
1929 - Earlier, athletes used to dig holes in the ground to get a firm foot-hold for starting. On this day, the first U.S. patent for starting blocks, titled "Foot Support," was issued to George T. Bresnahan of Iowa City. He described his invention as "what might be termed a starting block" to be used on a running track or field. The invention provided an adjustment of tilt to better match an individual's foot, and a cork or rubber surface to provide a firm foot-hold.
1989 - The last Russian troops withdraw from the capital city of Kabul.
1991 - The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.
Born....
1630 - Har Rai, Sikh Guru.
You may have known....
The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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