Inventions - Section 1
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The new item was first used on Lake Pepin in Minnesota.
Invented in 1885.
William Gray, inventor of the pay telephone, also invented the inflatable chest protector worn by baseball umpires and catchers.
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The scanner reads the bar code label on something at a supermarket, and translates it into a number which the computer reads.
The first Frisbees were pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company in Connecticut. In the 1950s, the pie tins were changed to plastic plates. The name then became the Flying Saucer, but later changed to Frisbee.
Mauchly and Eckert invented the ENIAC computer. Farnsworth was a pioneer of early television.
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Birchall's of Launceston in Tasmania started selling the world’s first notepads, calling them 'Silvercity Writing Tablets' after J A Birchall thought it would be a good idea to back sheets of paper with cardboard and glue them together at the top. His British paper suppliers weren’t so keen, but, they were persuaded by Birchall that it was a good idea!
Viscount Charles 'Turnip' Townsend developed this revolutionary concept.