Deion Sanders possessed athletic ability that most humans can only dream about. He played professionally in both football and baseball at the same time. Blessed with phenomenal speed, he is considered to be one of the best cornerbacks ever to play football, known for completely shutting down his side of the field.
nolimitpictures | Getty Images. The electric tattooing machine was officially patented on Dec. 8th 1891 by a New York tattoo artist named Samuel O'Reilly. But even OâReilly would be the first to admit that his invention was really an adaptation of a machine invented by Thomas Edison âthe Autographic Printing Pen.âReillyâs tattoo machine worked by using a hollow needle filled with permanent ink. An electric motor powered the needle in and out of the skin at a rate of up to 50 punctures per second.
It had a sponge-tipped handle and was filled with different paint colors. These marker pens were not commercially viable and didnât sell. In 1944, Walter J. De Groft patented a marking pen that held ink in liquid form in its handle and used a felt tip. This is the patent that will become a âSharpieâ pen in 1964. First modern (and usable) marker pen was Sidney Rosenthal's âMagic Markerâ which he invented and started selling in 1953. This marker had glass tube of ink for a body and a felt wick and its name comes from a fact that it was able to write on any surface.