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Sybilla’s method of pounding corn into a course meal to be boiled created grits, which is still enjoyed today.
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In February 1837, Treasury Secretary Levi Woodbury called for information from the “most intelligent sources” to help prepare a report to Congress on the propriety of establishing a “system of telegraphs” for the United States. Of the 18 responses he received, 17 assumed that the telegraph would be optical and its motive power human. The only respondent to envision a different operating force was Samuel F. B.

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Winter 2020 | Volume 26, Issue 1
Sybilla’s method of pounding corn into a course meal to be boiled created grits, which is still enjoyed today. Before Congress passed the Patent Act in 1790, inventors filed claims for their innovations with the King of England. The first American to do so was a woman, Sybilla Masters,…
Spring 2010 | Volume 25, Issue 1
In February 1837, Treasury Secretary Levi Woodbury called for information from the “most intelligent sources” to help prepare a report to Congress on the propriety of establishing a “system of telegraphs” for the United States. Of the 18 responses he received, 17 assumed that the telegraph would be…

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