My 7 year-old nephew showed me with pride the "telephone" he had just made from a string and two tin cans.
I pulled out my iPhone and said, "That's nice, but... look at the phones that kids your age are making in China!"
Carpet loomIn 1877, a U.S. patent was issued for a carpet power loom to weave Axminster carpets to Halcyon Skinner and his employer, Alexander Smith, both of Yonkers, New York (No. 186374). The loom was intended to securely weave tufting material into the carpet during the operations in the interweaving of the threads to form the fabric, suitable for the "Moquette" type of fabrics. Skinner was worked as a master mechanic for the carpet manufacturer Alexander Smith and Co., which became a leading carpet producer as a result of Skinner's machines. Skinner's other patents included not only more inventions for power-looms, but also a Carpenter's Gage (22 Aug 1854, No. 11572), an Apparatus for Teaching Spelling (2 Feb 1866, No. 52758), and a Motor-Truck for Street-Cars (11 Oct 1887, No. 371383).« |
