who invented the monkey wrench
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- A Baltimore mechanic named Charles Moncky invented the monkey wrench around 1858. The tool was originally named by using a “purposeful misspelling” of its inventor’s name, according to the Ferris State University Jim Crow Museum.
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W. W. Jacobs The Monkey's Paw  (published 1902 in the collection of short stories The Lady of the Barge) and several other ghost stories, including The Toll House (published 1909 in the collection of short stories Sailors' Knots) and Jerry Bundler (published 1901 in the collection Light Freights).
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- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February 1725 - 2 October 1804) was a French inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle. This claim is disput … ed by some sources, however, which suggest that Ferdinand Verbiest, as a member of a Jesuit mission in China, may have been the first to build a 'car' around 1672.
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Loom The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, which simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with complex patterns such as brocade, damask and matelasse. The loom is controlled by punched cards with punched holes, each row of
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Unimate: The Story of George Devol and the First Robotic Arm For 50 years, George Devol's invention has been speeding up production lines at manufacturing plants around the world. Last week, at his home in Wilton, Connecticut, George Devol, the inventor of the first industrial robotic arm passed away. Devol's invention has reshaped production lines around the world. Famously first embraced by the Japanese, robotic arms are now hard at work in the production of everything from cars to pancakes.
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- While the exact origin of the term ' brass monkey ' is unkown, it's 200-plus year usage history indicates its original meaning is related to the Kelvin Spheres that sit on either side of a ship's binnacle.
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- Interesting Facts - Inventions. [- Bowie Knife -] The Bowie Knife, the Knife with a guard between the long, heavy blade and the handle to protect the user, though associated with and credited to the famous defender of the Alamo, James Bowie, was actually invented by his lesser-known brother, Rezin Pleasant Bowie.
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- On September 20, 1951, a monkey named Yorick and 11 mice were recovered after an Aerobee missile flight of 236,000 feet at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. Yorick got a fair amount of press as the first monkey to live through a space flight.
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Blood Pressure Chart: Low Normal High Reading by Age Table Very high, sustained blood pressure will eventually cause blood vessels to weaken. Over time these weaken vessels can break, and blood will leak into the brain. The area of the brain that is being fed by these broken vessels start to die, and this will cause a stroke.
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Albert Richardson, a black man invented the butter churn! RIchardson patented a hame fastener in 1882, an insect destroyer in. February 1899 and improvement in the design of the bottle in December of. 1899. This is yet another genius at hand. He is good, so good for so many. things. These inventions make life easier and why not take advantage. of the easy way of doing something? Why make processes hard when
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Wrench A tool that is similar in design and appearance to a monkey wrench, but with self-tightening properties and hardened, serrated jaws that securely grip soft iron pipe and pipe fittings. Sometimes known by the original patent holder's brand name as a Stillson wrench.
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- Thursday, July 04, 2013, 06:57 am PT (09:57 am ET) Though the mouse didn't become the standard way to control a desktop computer until Apple released the Macintosh in 1984, it was first invented 20 years earlier by a visionary World War II veteran named Douglas C. Engelbart, who passed away this week at the age of 88.
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Monkey wrench Charles Monk (not Moncky) lived in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in the 1880s where he made and sold moulder's tools, not mechanics' tools like a monkey wrench. He could not have invented or named the monkey wrench because he was born after the term, monkey wrench, first appeared in print.
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Harvey J. Yogscast Founder of the Yogscast. Harvey J. Yogscast is a fictional character made up by Turpster. He is, presumably, the founder and creator of the Yogscast. He was an old man from Louisiana and one of his first traditions and lasting legacies was a bowling tournament called YogBowl.
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10 Obscure Inventors And Their Wonderful Inventions It was 1870 when William Lyman invented the familiar household can opener. This opener’s sharp rod pierced the can’s center, an adjustable lever clamped over the can, and then a cutting wheel rotated around the can’s rim.
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The Monkeys Paw, WW Jacobs W.W. Jacbos died in Islington, London on September 1, 1943, in a London nursing home. (xii The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre) 2. Overview and Summary of The Monkey's Paw. The Monkey's Paw was written by W.W. Jacobs in 1902 and was published in his collection of short stories called The Lady of the Barge. The Monkey's Paw is a short horror story, which is unlike his other humor stories written previously.
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Who Was Charles Babbage? The calculating engines of English mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) are among the most celebrated icons in the prehistory of computing. Babbage’s Difference Engine No.1 was the first successful automatic calculator and remains one of the finest examples of precision engineering of the time.
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Who Invented the Crowbar? Quick Answer. Though nobody knows who exactly invented the crowbar, it was used as a construction tool as early as the year 1400, when it was first documented in the English language as a crow, according to Snopes. Continue Reading.
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History of the Automobile Francis W. Davis invented power steering. In the 1920s, Davis was the chief engineer of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, and he saw first hand how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. Davis quit his job and rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, MA.
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Who Invented The Crescent Wrench Screw Wrenches. One of the unique wrench inventions of Merrick was the screw wrench. It was invented so that cylindrical forms could be more easily grasped by the jaws of the wrench. The jaws were also adjustable and had several teeth within them while the wrench itself was fairly adaptable to changing situations.
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- Richard Spikes was an African-American inventor created with  inventing the turn signal and the beer keg tap. Not a lot is known  about his personal life except that he was … declared legally blind  in 1962, the same year he passed away. Answered.
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- The Phillips head screw was invented by an obscure employee from the Ford Motor Company named Alexander Pendrew in 1923. He devised this screw to isolate the manufacture and r … epair of Ford products.
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The Life Of A Stomach Biopsy The Life Of A Stomach Biopsy. Do you know what happens to a stomach biopsy after you have had your endoscopy test? Have you ever wondered why you don’t get results straight away? Do you think it just goes to a lab to look at under a microscope? If your answer is YES, then you are wrong.
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- John Spilsbury /I.P.A. spɪlsbəri/ (1739 – 3 April 1769) [1] was a British cartographer and engraver. He is credited as the inventor of the jigsaw puzzle. Spilsbury created them for educational purposes, and called them “Dissected Maps”.
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Willis Johnson - Egg Beater African-American Willis Johnson of Cincinnati, Ohio, patented and improved the mechanical egg beater (U.S. pat# 292,821) on February 5, 1884. The beater was made up of a handle attached to a series of spring-like whisk wires used to help mix ingredients.
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- A German named Charles Wiesenthal who lived in England got patented the needle that he designed for sewing machine in 1755. It was in 1790 Thomas Saint, who was an English inventor and a maker of cabinets got a copyright for a sewing machine as a whole.