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On This Day
18 October 1952:
Patrick Morrow was born.
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Norman Breakey

The Toronto resident invented the paint roller in 1940 but, when imitators started showing up everywhere, he did not have the funds to defend his patent. His other inventions include a device for tapping beer kegs and a supermarket inventory system.

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Chell, Walter
Dickins, Punch
Gosling, James
May, Wop
Morrow, Patrick


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