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Hello, happy Thursday! It's me, Sabrina, here as your hostess this week. I had a quick look at what happened on this day in history, and when I saw that it was the anniversary of William Austin Burt patenting America's first typographer (typewriter) I knew I had my theme. Then I looked Burt up - my, he was quite some man. He only had 6 weeks formal classroom schooling, being mostly home-schooled by a neighbour. He started out building sawmills, but his main career was in surveying - and inventing. As well as the "typographer", he invented a solar compass which wouldn't be influenced by magnetic fields, as when he as surveying near what turned out to be the Marquette Iron Range in MI, he was having a lot of problems with a regular compass.
Here's a picture of his typographer: (By clbinelli - originally posted to Flickr as W A Burt typographer, CC BY 2.0,)
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What a great little history lesson for us, Sabrina! Now I am off to the stamp room to see what I have in my stash!
__________________ LizThe joy of the LORD is my strength.Right Brain Madness --My blogProud member of the redDivasKSS certified multi-step stamperFan Club member since 2004
LOVE the bit about history, Sabrina! I'll see what I can come up with.
Hugs,
C
__________________ Hugs & blessings, ~Chrissy
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Mr. Burt was quite the inventor! Thanks for sharing his story. I had a very successful stash shopping expedition. I had no idea I had so many typewriter items. Here's my card, WT802 Here's to William Austin Burt.
Allison this was a great sketch this week! Sabrina I love office things, so typewriter was up my alley! Great challenge!
__________________ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
I'm amazed at how many people actually had one or more typewriters in their stash! What a wonderful gallery. I'll be along to comment on the more recent uploads after work. I cycle to work these days and really miss the time on the bus commute which was always a great time for catching up in the galleries. I took a quick peek before breakfast and especially loved webster8’s charts and Joanne's mouse!
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Hello and THANKS for letting me play ( a little late) ! I saw this challenge and remembered i had this typewriter stamp, from years ago.... never used. I had good intentions that day to jump in and get going, but my going got up and left. : ) FINALLY yesterday i got encouraged again and made a few Typewriter version cards, some brighter/cheerier. but this was my favorite version.
THANKS for the challenges, and the fun they bring!! Take good care,
WT802 ~ What's Your Type ~ {07/23/20}
