This Month in History:
1793 France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
1876 Thomas Edison is granted the patent for Autographic Printing (US Patent 180,857)
1877 Thomas Edison completes 1st model for the phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders
1843 Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1856 Anthony Fass patents accordion
1893 Henry Perky patents a machine for the preparation of cereals for food, otherwise known as shredded wheat