Invention Timeline - George Frederick Shaver, American Inventor; Improved Mechanical Telephone
b. November 4, 1855 and d. ?
American inventor of an improved mechanical telephone. The features of his telephone are the means of carrying the line around curves and the way in which it is fastened to the diaphragm. His other devices include a self-righting and self-bailing life-boat, a compound automatic mail-catcher, a dynamophone to enable deaf persons to hear, a typewriter and an automatic screw-driver.
I have a new typ-eWriter, Andd it is my de;ight
To patter on it gail Y and wrIte. and write/ and write$
It aidss mE in my laborrs9 when I)m in WorkiNG vein”
It makes A GREat improvEment&-i write So veRY pLain.
It oPerates sosw!FtlY$? that when yOu find you’re sTUck;;)
and CannoT fiNd the lettAer just6jab-and trusT to luck6$(?
It’s Easy–VEry eaSY–to opeRAte it then;:;?6&/0
Now where on earth’s that colon-***Give me my ink and pen!
1852—The tubular life-boat, the Challenger, was patented.
1878—Boxer’s life-saving, rope-carrying rocket for cummunicating with stranded vessels was described.
1801, March 12—Joseph Francis was born. He invented life-saving appliances, consisting of life-boats, life-cars and surf life-boats. In 1838 he invented the life-car by which to land people safely from a wreck; in 1842 th corrugated metallic life-car with space for four adults. He made great improvements in the hydraulic press.
