For his wife's birthday, a doctor ordered a cake with this inscription:
"You are not getting older, You are getting better."
When asked how he wanted it arranged, he said, "Just put 'You are not getting older' at the top, and 'You are just getting better' at the bottom."
It wasn't until the good doctor was ready to serve the cake that he discovered it read:
"YOU ARE NOT GETTING OLDER AT THE TOP, YOU ARE JUST GETTING BETTER AT THE BOTTOM."
Steel-making patentIn 1857, a U.S. patent was issued to William Kelly for Manufacturing of Iron and Steel (No. 17628). Although he had been experimenting with the steel-making process for a few years, he had not patented it until he heard that Henry Bessemer had been granted a patent on a like process. Kelly had not filed first, but he was able to convince the patent office that he was the first to invent the air-blast method of forming steel from iron in a cupula. Kelly thus held rights of priority for his patent. However, Bessemer had important additional steps worked out to mass-produce steel. Bessemer was a businessman and industrialist who made the Bessemer process profitable, but Kelly still benefitted from his share, though smaller, of the vast profits.«[Image: Kelly's converter illustrated from patent diagram, Red arrows indicate the tuyeres through which an air blast is introduced.] |
