Speaking of clunky coinage, here's another that went the way of the
pterodactyl.

Sign me,

dan absorbing yet another example of discrimination borne of the late great
unpleasantness becker


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jack
> Sullivan
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 12:07 AM
> To: Recipient list suppressed
> Subject: [Fire Safe Heritage]: Historic home, where artist lived,
> destroyed in fire
>
>
> Historic home, where artist lived, destroyed in fire
>
>
> http://hotnews.al.com/cgi-free/getstory.cgi?j2870_PM_AL--OldHouseB
> urns&AL&n
> ews&al_headlines
>
> The Associated Press
> 2/10/00 1:42 AM
>
> CENTRE, Ala. (AP) -- A historic 19th century residence where the artist
> Myrtice West lived was destroyed in an early morning fire. No one was
> seriously injured, and many of her art works were saved with the help of
> neighbors and firefighters.
>
> The home, built in 1837, was occupied for many years by John
> Jonathan Pratt, a
> newspaper editor who invented an early version of the typewriter
> called the pterotype.

<snip>

> Pratt developed his typewriter a short time before the Civil War.
> Because he
> was a resident of the Confederate States, he was unable to get a U.S.
> patent on
> his invention. Instead, he obtained a British patent for the pterotype.