TWO CONNECTICUT YANKEES

    WEDNESDAY,JULY 14, 2021

TWO CONNECTICUT YANKEES!

   Next time you need to do some

measuring for your kitchen snack

bar or your woodworking shop, pause

for a moment and remember two men

from Connecticut who simplified the

task. It was on July 14th., of 1868 when

Alvin Fellows patented his newly designed

spring loaded rape measure. Just four years

earlier William Bangs, Fellow's fellow

Connecticut resident, had patented his

own spring loaded tape measure. Fellows

improved the design by coming up with a

tape measure that would stop and you unrolled

it and then sprang back inside its contained

with the push of a switch! Fellows and Bangs,

two men who really "measured up!" Hope

you're well and that all your NEWS is good!