Inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patented the pencil in the US.
He called it “sheathing with paper sheaths.”
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Inventor Chester Carlson created the first Xerox image.
Industrialist Henry Ford's method to construct auto bodies from plastic was patented.
A team of scientists invented the sports drink Gatorade in a University of Florida lab.
Birt Acres, a British inventor, patented the film camera/projector.
German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin granted a patent for the navigable balloon.
