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2. Sarah Boone - Wikipedia

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   James Boone (m. 1847) Children. 8. Sarah Boone (née Sarah Marshall; c. 1832 – 1904) was an African-American inventor. On April 26, 1892, she obtained United States patent number 473,563 [ 1 ] for her improvements to the ironing board. Boone's ironing board was designed to improve the quality of ironing the sleeves and bodies of women's garments.

3. Ironing - Wikipedia

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   Ironing a shirt. Ironing is the use of an iron, usually heated, to remove wrinkles and unwanted creases from fabric. [1] The heating is commonly done to a temperature of 180–220 °C (360–430 °F), depending on the fabric. [2] Ironing works by loosening the bonds between the long-chain polymer molecules in the fibres of the material.

4. Clothes iron - Wikipedia

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   Clothes iron. A clothes iron (also flatiron, smoothing iron, dry iron, steam iron or simply iron) is a small appliance that, when heated, is used to press clothes to remove wrinkles and unwanted creases. Domestic irons generally range in operating temperature from between 121 °C (250 °F) to 182 °C (360 °F). It is named for the metal (iron ...

5. History of Lego - Wikipedia

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   It was these miniature models of stepladders and ironing boards that inspired him to begin producing toys. [5] On August 10, 1932 [6] Christiansen's shop started making wooden toys such as piggy banks, pull toys, cars and trucks, and houses, but because of the state of the economy, the business was not profitable. Farmers in the area sometimes ...

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7. Timeline of plastic development - Wikipedia

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   Eduard Simon, a German apothecary, discovers polystyrene. [2] 1844. Thomas Hancock patents the vulcanization of rubber in Britain immediately followed by Charles Goodyear in United States. [3] 1856. Parkesine, the first member of the Celluloid class of compounds and considered the first man-made plastic, is patented by Alexander Parkes. [4] 1869.