In 1859, the paper bag manufacturing machine was patented by William Goodale, Mass.
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In 1870, a U.S. patent (No. 105,338) for an improved process to produce celluloid was awarded to John Wesley Hyatt, Jr., (1837 - 1920) the man considered to be the “father of the U.S. Plastics industry,”
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n 1906, the first long-distance wireless telegraphy message across water in the southern hemisphere was transmitted 300-km across Bass Strait from Devonport, Tasmania to Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia, to demonstrate Marconi's equipment.
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