Subj : Famous Inventors
To   : All
From : Mike Dippel
Date : Wed Jul 07 2021 08:59:16

This week's famous connections are American inventors.

I am:

25 degrees from Otto Frederick Rohwedder, the inventor of sliced bread
41 degrees from Nicolas Appert, father of canning (airtight food preservation)
28 degrees from Emile Berliner, phonograph record and gramophone
56 degrees from Alfred Cralle, ice cream scoop
24 degrees from Lance de Mole, tracked armored vehicle (tank)
20 degrees from Arthur Ganong, individual chocolate bar
20 degrees from Josephine Cochran, a dishwasher
20 degrees from John Harington, flushing toilet
16 degrees from John Patch, Screw type propeller
29 degrees from Herman Snellen, the Snellen chart measure for visual acuity
24 degrees from Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the Zeppelin air travel
21 degrees from Stuart Awbrey

If you're one of the 22,967,000 of us who are connected to each other on the 'big' tree 
you can start your journey by going to http://wikitree.com

Mike Dippel
http/telnet hobbylinebbs.com


 
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