The place of articulation of a consonant is generally named for the passive articulator. Sometimes the active articulator is also explicitly included in the name of a place of articulation by use of the prefixes apico- and lamino-. Illustrations of Place of Articulation in English.
It was around this period that the first electric washing machine was invented. There are records that show that Louis Goldenberg invented the electric washing machine in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The patent may have been under Goldenberg or Ford Motor Company.
Thomas L. Jennings (1791-1859) was the first African American person to receive a patent in the U.S., paving the way for future inventors of color to gain exclusive rights to their inventions. Born in 1791, Jennings lived and worked in New York City as a tailor and dry cleaner. He invented an early method of dry cleaning called dry scouring and patented it in 1821âfour years before Paris tailor Jean Baptiste Jolly refined his own chemical technique and established what many people claim was historyâs first dry cleaning business.