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    AMERICA'S FIRST ASPHALT PAVEMENT
    July 29, 1870

    Was laid in Newark, N.J. Previously, coal tar was used for many pavements laid in the 1860s. The first recorded asphalt pavement in the U.S. was a sand mix placed in front of the City Hall in Newark, N.J., in 1870. Edmund J. DeSmedt, a Belgian chemist (who became the inspector of asphalt and cements for the District of Columbia) held a U.S. patent for this asphalt paving method, granted on 31 May 1867. In that century most roads, even in cities, were wide dirt pathways, severely affected by weather. Smooth surfaced asphalt roads originally were for the benefit of bicyclists. By 1904, only 141 miles were surfaced, but commonplace by 1916. Natural asphalt deposits were originally used, but almost all of the asphalt used commercially is now made from petroleum.

    THE FIRST IRON LUNG
    July 29, 1927 - United States

    (Electric Respirator) was installed at Bellevue hospital in New York for the post war polio epidemic. The first iron lung was developed at Harvard University by Phillip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw built with two vacuum cleaners. The iron lung is a negative pressure machine which surrounds the patient's body except for the head, and alternates a negative atmospheric pressure with the ambient one, resulting in rhythmic expansion of the chest cage (and thus inhalation) in response to the negative extra thoracic pressure. During periods of ambient extrathoracic pressure, the lungs deflate. This type of machine is rarely used today.

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Straight hair is trendy and stylish and that is why hair straighteners are so popular with the people all over the world, which helps the user to achieve the same.

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The art of hair straightening is not new but it has been around for a long time. It seems to us that whether we are a curly haired woman longing for sleek, straight locks, or a straight-haired girl wanting to go even straighter, we are never satisfy with the hair we have. Such dissatisfaction has led to so many innovations and inventions. Looking few years back we find that our mothers and grandmothers used to employ to such tricks as ironing their hair straight. In that case, we are lucky enough to have a number of modern means like Electric Curling Irons, Electric Pressing Irons, Thermal Curling Irons, Electric Flat Irons, Electric Straightner Irons, Electric Crimpers, Flat Irons, Thermal Stoves, and more at our disposal to allow us to switch straight and curly as we wish in this twenty-first century.

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