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    BLACK AMERICAN INVENTION
    January 8, 1872 - U.S.A.

    A second U.S. patent was issued to Black American inventor Thomas Elkins for a new article of chamber furniture which he designated a "Chamber Commode" (No. 122,518). It provides a combination of "a bureau, mirror, book-rack, washstand, table, easy-chair, and earth-closet or chamber-stool," which might otherwise be constructed as several separate articles. Previously, a patent had been issued to Elkins on 22 Feb 1870 for a "Dining, Ironing Table and Quilting Frame Combined" (No. 100,020). Another patent was subsequently issued on 11 Apr 1879 for a "Refrigerating Apparatus" for "food or corpses," which provides a convenient container and method of chilling using the evaporation of water. (No. 221,222).

    COMPLEX NUMBER CALCULATOR OPERATIONAL
    January 8, 1940 - Bell Laboratories, U.S.A.

    George Stibitz's Complex Number Calculator was functional. He was a research mathematician at Bell Laboratories, who worked on its construction from Apr 1939, assisted by Samuel Williams. Later known as Bell Labs Model I Relay Computer, it used telephone relays and coded decimal numbers as groups of four binary digits (bits) each. It has been called the first electromechanical computer for routine use. A demonstration of its ability in remote computing was given on 11 Sep 1940, when messages were exchanged by phone lines between teletypewriter operators. Calculations suggested by attendees of the American Mathematical Society's meeting at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire were communicated to an attendant at the keyboard of Stibitz's calculator in New York.

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People say that our house is our fortress. It has a few meanings and can be interpreted in a number of ways. But the fundamental underlying meaning of the phrase is that your flat is the place where you feel safe and calm. The time we spend at home is commonly destined to relaxation and recreation. That's the reason why it is very important that the house should correspond to your inner state and charge you with energy. Regular home repair will help you to create favorable atmosphere in your house.

House repair is the procedure of remodeling and making additions to your flat with the aim to make it look better and be more comfortable. Some people regard it as an exciting process since it's a way to bring more comfort to the place they live. For others house renovation is a wearisome process of creating the ideas for renovation, choosing the materials and the fulfillment of the work itself. It depends on how you take the problem and the way you choose to fulfill the renovation.
There are 3 fundamental ways to get your flat repaired.

First of all, you remodel your flat and fulfill all the work by yourself. It is the cheapest way, but it demands lots of efforts. But the benefit is that you make your own plans real. But taking into consideration that most of us aren't experts in repair work, the result may be far from what you plan. So in case you know for sure what you want the best way will be to invite a repair contractor. It's a specialist in home renovation that will do all the repair work on his own in accordance with your project.

For those who are not sure what exactly they prefer there is an opportunity to invite an interior decorator. The decorator will help you in expressing your ideas and will offer you several versions of design in your house. After you prepare a final project you just have to choose a renovation contractor and start with repair work at once.
Renovation contractors will help you to build the house of your dream that will bring joy to you for years to come.

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