There are many distinctions in life, but graves are all identical.
On this day, 22 May....
1841 - Henry Kennedy, a cabinetmaker and upholsterer of Philadelphia, was issued the first U.S. patent for a reclining chair.
1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.
1888 - Architect Leroy S. Buffington patented the system for building skyscrapers using a metal skeleton frame. Although Buffington claimed to be the originator of the metal skeleton frame that made building tall structures feasible, his claim to be the inventor of the skyscraper was refuted. However, using the designs created by Harvey Ellis, Buffington is credited with playing a pivotal role in refining the new method of construction. (The invention of the skyscraper lies with George A. Fuller, who worked on solving the problems of the load bearing capacities of tall buildings).
1892 - Dr. Washington Sheffield, a dentist of New London, USA, invented the collapsible metal toothpaste tube, which was later manufactured by his Sheffield Tube Corp. (The idea of collapsible metal tubes, however, dates back to a patent by American artist John Rand on 11 Sep 1841, but these packages were first commercially used for oil-paints. The first collapsible polythene tubes were produced in the U.S. for skin-tanning lotion in 1953).
1894 - Black American inventor S. Newson was issued a patent for an "oil heater or cooker".
1899 - Rreporter Charles Shanks first used the French word "automobile". (The word thereafter became accepted in US).
1963 - Glider 'Rohini' became the first to successfully fly at Kanpur.
1973 - Robert Metcalfe wrote a memo describing a way to transmit data from the early generation of personal computers to a new device, the laser printer. He called his multipoint data communications system Ethernet, and today it continues to dominate as the standard computer network.
Born....
1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, philosopher and reformer.
1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish author and physician whose fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, emulates the scientist, diligently searching through data and to make sense of it. “It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.” Later in life he was a convert to spiritualism, and requested burial in an upright position in the garden of his home.
1959 – Mehbooba Mufti, politician.
RIP....
1545 - Sher Shah Suri. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack.{He introduced the new silver rupee-coin "Rupiya" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road}.
You may have known....
India has the largest number of vegetarians in the world. So much so that Pizza Hut had to open their first pure vegetarian restaurant in the country.
And KFC had to introduce a “vegetarian” menu for India.
And so did McDonalds, the world’s largest fast-food manufacturer.
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Raj Kadyan
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