SMALL IDEAS
Mr. W. H. ■ Palmer, ■of Baltimore, who thought, of the .first cap for beer bottles, ended as a millionaire. So did the American •who-, made the first crinkly hairpin. Adams invented chewing-gum,, and was rewarded by a grateful proletariat with wealth. Another American named H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, introduced the first rubber eraser on the end of a pencil, and joined' Mr. Heatin, of Providence, the father of the metal staple that holds on shoe buttons, in the millionaire class. Elias Howe had the first idea that if j'ou placed a hole near the point of a needle it.:would be easier to sew. Thus was born the sewing machine. Britain recovered her prestige when Mr. George Weaver, of Bath, inven .d the first t nny-in-the-slot automatic weighing machine, while it is an invariable source of historic satisfaction (says a writer in the London "Sunday Express") to reflect that a Lord Sandwich, since desiccated, conceived the idea of placing a piece of meat between two slices of bread in order to eat quickly, keep his fingers clean, and deal cards better.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 19
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183SMALL IDEAS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 19
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