Sunday, April 19, 2020
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
VESTA STOUDT, INVENTOR OF DUCK TAPE
Inventor of Duck Tape
Vesta Stoudt
Born April 13, 1891 d. 1965
American inventor. Vesta Stoudt invented duck tape. While working at an ordnance plant during World War II, she noticed that the way ammunition boxes were sealed made them difficult to open quickly and this could cost them precious time in battle. So, she developed a waterproof, tearable cloth tape to solve the problem. Her bosses at the plant were unimpressed, so she wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt:
"I suggested we use a strong cloth tape to close seams, and make tab of same. It worked fine, I showed it to different government inspectors they said it was all right, but I could never get them to change tape."
Roosevelt liked the idea and sent it to the War Production Board who implemented her tape. The tape was made with a woven fabric, known as "duck cloth", coated in waterproof plastic with a layer of rubber-based adhesive and could be torn by hand without the need for scissors. The tape worked great on ammo boxes and soon GIs found it was also useful for fixing leaks, repairing equipment, and even closing up wounds on the battlefield.
Stoudt received Chicago Tribune's War Worker Award for her idea.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Sunday, April 5, 2020
INSPIRING LIVES: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR : A CRUSADER FOR LIBERATION
MARTIN
LUTHER KING JR. :
A CRUSADER FOR LIBERATION
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in
Atlanta, Georgia. King, although he was an initial skeptic to religion he
eventually became a Baptist minister, a civil-rights activist and had a seismic
impact on race relations in the United States. Among his many efforts, King
headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Through his activism and
inspirational speeches, he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation
of African-American citizens in the United States, as well as the creation of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King received
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. He was assassinated
in April 1968 and continues to be remembered as one of the most influential and
inspirational African-American leaders in history.
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