This Week In Black History.(the career of Count Basie is remembered)(this and other stories are discussed)
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Date: 8/23/1999
August 17, 1880
T. B. Pinn patented the File Holder on this day (Patent # 231,355). Pinn's file holder was a small wooden structure that contained wooden dividers to separate the papers and a knob attached to open and close the file holder. Before Pinn's invention, most records were kept on spindles. That method of record keeping was very time-consuming because records were not filed in any specific order. When records were needed, the job of retrieving them could sometimes take ...
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