A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known...
And then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Photo embossingIn 1895, black American inventor, Clatonia Joaquin Dorticus of Newton, New Jersey, patented a "machine for embossing photographs" (No. 537,442). Photographic prints could either be mounted, or embossed by using proper dies. A bed plate carried the female die. An upper hinged plate held the male die. They were closed and pressed together with a lever bar. The device was designed to distribute equal pressure over the entire surface of the photographic film. A few days later, he also patented a photographic print wash. One month before, he was issued a patent for "a device for applying coloring liquids to sides of soles and heels of shoes." In 1899, Dorticus received a patent for his invention of a "Hose Leak Stop."« |
