Nobody actually knows who created the original figure-8 Baseball design. Some expertsÊcredit a shoemaker's son, Ellis Drake, who didn't patent the idea and got his design stolen. Other experts credit Colonel William A Cutler. In either case it certainly wasn't any Joseph H. Shockley. As for why, well, in the case of Ellis Drake, the story goes he dreamed of a ball they could use that wouldn't tear apart as easily as the balls they'd been using before.Ê
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Ganong Brothers For many years after its introduction to European cultures, chocolate was only a drink. In 1830, a British chocolate maker, Joseph Fry & Sons found a way to make a solid form that could be eaten. In 1847, the Fry chocolate factory began making the first chocolate bars. We could say that cocoa beans was first found by Christopher Colombus. Chocolate is yummy.
He turn a poor farming country to one of the worlds greatest superpowers.