Xerox 914

The Xerox 914, invented by Chester Carlson (below), was the first successful  
commercial plain paper copier. It was first introduced to the public on September
16, 1959 and revolutionized the document-copying industry. The original machine
was presented to the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of American History.

Physicist and Inventor Chester Floyd Carlson was born
in Seattle, Washington in 1906

                   Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947)

Industrialist, Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and
maker of the Model T automobile. He became one of the richest and best-
known people in the world.

Henry Ford sits at the tiller of the first car he made, in 1896
when he was 33. With him are his wife and Grandson

Ice cream cones became popular in America in the first decade of the 20th
century. On December 13, 1903, Italo Marchiony of New York received a U.S.
patent for a mold for making pastry cups to hold ice cream; he claimed that
he had been selling ice cream in edible pastry holders since 1896. However,
his patent was not for a cone and he lost the lawsuits that he later filed
against cone manufacturers for patent infringement.

In St. Louis, Missouri during the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair, the owner of
Banner Creamery, George Bang, was selling ice cream when he allegedly  
ran out of bowls and was given rolled-up waffles to serve it in instead.

According to some historians,the earliest cones were rolled by hand, from hot
thin wafers, but in 1912, Frederick Bruckman, an inventor from Portland,
Oregon, patented a machine for rolling ice cream cones. He sold his company
to Nabisco in 1928, which is still producing ice cream cones to this day. The 
Independent ice-cream company’s such as Ben & Jerry’s make their own
cones.

The Bell Telephone Company was founded by Alexander Graham Bell along
with his father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Under Hubbard’s guidance,
the company developed the first telephones with the assistance of Thomas
Watson and by the end of 1877 was responsible for over 3,000 phones in
service under the Bell Telephone Company name. The firm grew quickly,
boasting over 10,000 phones in service by the end of 1878.

Alexander Graham Bell

 
Gardiner G. Hubbard, president and trustee
of the Bell Telephone Company

Carroll Shelby after a race in 1959

Carroll Hall Shelby (January 11, 1923 – May 10, 2012) 

Shelby was a automotive designer, and race car driver who is 
best known for making the AC Motors–based Shelby Cobra
and later the Mustang-based performance cars for Ford
Motor company known as Mustang Cobras.He was inducted
into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1991, and
the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1992.