nPosted on April 26, 2019
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nBorn into slavery in North Carolina, Sarah Marshall Boone and her family went to Connecticut before the start of the Civil War. Boone worked as a dressmaker while raising eight children.
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nWhen you are working for pay AND raising eight children, you need all the labor-saving devices you can get. Boone noticed that a normal ironing board was almost impossible to use for women’s sleeves, so she invented a narrow, curved ironing board that would work better.
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nAnd she even sought a patent for her invention. On this date in 1892, she received a U.S. patent for her improvements to the ironing board.
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nNot very many African American women of Sarah Boone’s time became patent-holding inventors, for sure. Let’s celebrate Boone today!!
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nLandscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s birthday
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nRichter Scale Day
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nNaturalist and artist John Audubon’s birthday
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nAnniversary of a major meteor shower
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National Help a Horse Day
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nConfederate Memorial Day
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nAnniversary of coffee art
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