Federic Arnold (1922 – 2018)

Fredric Arnold was a "reluctant warrior," creative dynamo and
decorated World War II combat pilot.

He miraculously survived 50 missions of flying P-38 Lightning
warplanes over North Africa and Europe.

The death he witnessed and inflicted in war was in deep contrast
with the mild-mannered child prodigy artist from Chicago who
spent the rest of his life as a creator: drawing, writing, acting
and inventing. 

Among other creative achievements, Arnold patented the
aluminum-and-nylon folding beach chair, so familiar to
summertime sand, surf, backyards and barbecues across
the United States. 

"Portable and easy to store, the American-style Lawn Chair
is the ultimate symbol of the ideal summer day," Phaidon
Press wrote in its 2018 coffee-table tome, "Chair: 500
Designs That Matter."

FOX NEWS

March 10, 1876, the first discernible speech was transmitted
over a telephone system when inventor Alexander Graham
Bell summoned his assistant in another room by saying,
“Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.” Bell had received a
comprehensive telephone patent just three days before.

The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison,
Alexander Graham Bell‘s Volta Laboratory made several
improvements in the 1880s and introduced the graphophone,
including the use of wax-coated cardboard cylinders and a
cutting stylus that moved from side to side in a zigzag groove
around the record. In the 1890s, Emile Berliner initiated the
transition from phonograph cylinders to flat discs with a spiral
groove running from the periphery to near the center, coining
the term gramophone for disc record players.

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)

Banjo player and guitarist Buck Trent, a two-time CMA
instrumental group of the year winner and a prominent
member of the cast of the variety show Hee Haw, died
on Monday (Oct. 9) at age 85.

Football player Chip Hinton (Left) trying J. Robert Cade’s invention in 1965.

On October 2, 1965, a team of scientists invented Gatorade,
sports drink to quench thirst, in a University of Florida lab.

The name "Gatorade" is derived from the nickname of the
university’s sports teams. Eventually, the drink becomes
a phenomenon and made its inventors wealthy.

Early in the summer of 1965, University of Florida assistant
football coach Dewayne Douglas met a group of scientists
on campus to determine why many of Florida’s players were
so negatively affected by heat. To replace bodily fluids lost
during physical exertion, Dr. James Robert Cade and his
team of researchers, doctors H. James Free, Dana Shires
and Alex de Quesada, created the now-ubiquitous sports
drink.

1969