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Tue, 10.21.1980

A Black Woman Patents an Illusion Transmitter

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*On this date in 1980, a Black woman obtained a patent for the illusion transmitter.

Valerie Thomas, a scientist from Maryland, was the inventor; the U.S. patent is 4229761A.

Her invention transmits how a concave mirror would affect the real object that is reflected.

New Poem Each Day

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I Life goes by moving, Up and down a chain of moods Wanting what’s nothing. II My soul is the wind Dashing down fields of Autumn: O, too swift... ENCHANTMENT by Lewis Grandison Alexander
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