Show S First Postage Stamp Machine I r The first machine for manufacturing I Ii i postage stamps was the invention o of James Bogardus s w who o was born InS in II S S Catskill N. N Y T. S When the tho British government adv advertised ad- ad i v for a postage stamp machine j Jin mn In 1839 Bogardus w was s' s une rne ne of 2600 como com com- for the prize which machine was o awarded to him for his device Before that he Invented a a. new kind of clock for tor cotton spinning an S Eccentric eccentrIc mill mm a a. machine for engrav- engrav o figures on watch dials and a machine ma- ma chine for printing bank notes In 1847 1841 S he be constructed In New York for his own use a building entirely of cast iron i-iron the first o of its kind In America He completed many other successful S 1 i inventions and was at work on several S schemes when he died d in 1874 1814 The Bogardus postage stamp press was first used in 1840 when penny postage was inaugurated in England En En- gland Stamps with gummed backs were adopted by the United States in 1847 I A new regulation in a certain coalmine coalmine coal coalmine mine required that each man markwith mark markwith with chalk the number of every car of coal mined One man named Rudolph having filled the eleventh car marked I It as one and after pondering a while let it go at that Another miner happening happening hap hap- pening ening to notice what he thought was wasa a mistake called Rudolph's attention to the fact that h he had marked the car car carNo No 1 I instead of No 11 Yes I know said Rudolph but l I cant can't think which side the other 1 goes on Chi Chi Chi- cago News |