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acourding to william austin burt, his typographer is the first invented typewriter
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for the longest time house guests had to wait out side in too hot, rainy, snowy and too cold of weather; waiting for the host to hear the inconvienient house bells and door knockers.
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saving farmers from hours of backbreaking work
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blacksmith john deere invented
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Buffalo, NY
Joseph dart built the first one
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Dr. Crawford Long first used his ether anethstetics on a tumor removal patient. The ether worked so well that the patient didn't even realize his tumor had been removed.
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the words sent were "what hath God wrought?"
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Based on an English game called rounders, Alexander Cartwright created the most popular rules to baseball and named it Knickerbocker rules after his own team.
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Norbert Rillieux, an African American inventor, created an efficient sugar cane juice evaporator.
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Hanson Crockett Gregory invented the idea of a ring shaped doughnut when he was on a lime trading ship. In those days doughnuts where shaped so that grease collected and soaked up in the middle giving indigestion. he was 16 yrs old when he fixed the doughnut to it's formal self.
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former inventor Walter Hunt was twisting metal pieces in his hands trying to think of how he would be able to pay a 15 dollar debt when he created the safety pin.