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Martin Smithers RandlesBIRTH7 Apr 1882Richland, Pulaski County, Missouri, USADEATH22 Feb 1946 (aged 63)Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USABURIALPoplar Bluff City CemeteryPoplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri, USAMEMORIAL ID104202040 | Martin Smithers Randles Sr (born year) | ||
ames Field Smathers, inventor of the electric typewriter, was born on a farm near Valley Spring, Texas, on February 12, 1888, the son of James Jefferson and Harriet Olenzo (Spinks) Smathers. After attending a one-room country school he entered Texas Christian University in 1904. He finished business school, taught shorthand and typing for a year, and in 1908 became a typist, accountant, and credit manager of a firm in Kansas City, Missouri. While doing the constant typing required by his position, he realized the need for some means to increase the speed and decrease the fatigue of typing, and the use of electric power seemed to him the obvious device. For more than three years he worked on the application of electric power to typewriters and by the fall of 1912 had completed a working model and applied for a patent, which was issued the next year. He continued to develop his idea until in September 1914 he perfected an electric typewriter that performed perfectly. In the early 1920s he obtained an extension of his early patent because of the delay in his work caused by his overseas military service during World War I. In 1923 the Northeast Electric Company of Rochester, New York, entered into a royalty contract with Smathers for the production of electric typewriters. However, private industrial acceptance of the concept of an electrically powered typewriter did not come until 1930, when Electric Typewriters, Inc., a subsidiary of Northeast Electric Company, put the Electromatic model on the market. This company was purchased by the International Business Machines Corporation in 1933, a step which marked the beginning of the IBM Office Products Division. The Franklin Institute of the state of Pennsylvania awarded Smathers the Edward Longstreth Medal "for ingenuity in the invention of the electric typewriter." In 1938 he joined the Rochester staff of IBM as a consultant and worked in development engineering at Poughkeepsie until his retirement in 1953. In 1945 the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences awarded him a fellowship for the invention of an escapement for spacing typewriter characters variably according to their widths. An honorary award in 1966 by the alumni association of Texas Christian University recognized Smathers as a "distinguished alumnus." He died on August 7, 1967, in Poughkeepsie, New York, and was buried in Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, Mildred Eloise Gill Smathers, a son, and a daughter. tshaonline.org | James Fields Smathers (born year) | ||
Location: Union City, Stone County, Missouri | Minnie Lee Maples (born year) | ||
Locate residents, organizations, and businesses in St. Louis within its city directories, 1863-1923. | Magdalena (Lena) Siegel (born year) | ||
Locate residents, organizations, and businesses in St. Louis within its city directories, 1863-1923. | Magdalena (Lena) Siegel (born year) | ||
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Family History Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; Film - FHL 0,945,421, Court House Deed Records, Osceola, St. Clair Co., Missouri, Volume D, page 152 | William B Wilkinson (born year) | ||
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Fletchall Cemetery, Cemetery Entrance. Fletchall Cemetery, Grant City, Worth County, Missouri. Courtesy of Find A Grave, Cem ID# 1017772. Photo courtesy of Diane and Don from Iowa ID 46956127. | |||
Grant City Cemetery, Cemetery Signage. Grant City Cemetery, Grant City, Worth County, Missouri. CEM ID # 2148194. Courtesy of Find A Grave, photo courtesy of Tim Hill ID 46835146. | |||
Burial: Mount Washington Cemetery Independence Jackson County Missouri, USA Plot: Kansas City Heritage 67 | Amanda Kelley (born year) | ||
Date of Sailing: August 31, 1942 Seattle Washington Ship: U.S.S. PC 571 Deployment: JUL 1942 MAR 1944 Alaska Place of enlistment Kansan City Missouri Rank:QM3/C Serial # 410 27 66 Date of enlistment: October 4, 1937 Location: Kansan City Missouri | Lucien Howard Noah (born year) | ||
Mount Moriah Cemetery 10507 Holmes Rd. Kansas City Jackson County Missouri USA Postal Code: 64131 Phone: 816-942-2004 | Oval Anthony Wood (born year) | ||
Mount Moriah Cemetery 10507 Holmes Rd. Kansas City Jackson County Missouri USA Postal Code: 64131 Phone: 816-942-2004 | Laura Dora Grant (born year) | ||
321 Bellefontains Avenue Kansan City Missouri home of William Albert Garrett and Josephine Carpent | William Albert Garrett (born year) | ||
Mortuary Notice- Date: Tuesday January 22, 1918 Paper: Kansas City Star (Kansas City Missouri) Volume 81 Issue 18 Page 6 | William Albert Garrett (born year) | ||
Daniel B NoahBIRTH2 Apr 1870Missouri, USADEATH22 Oct 1901 (aged 31)Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USABURIALCreekmore CemeteryAltamont, Daviess County, Missouri, USAMEMORIAL ID20945887 · View Source | Daniel B. Noah (born year) |