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Richard Spikes Over the course of his lifetime, Spikes developed the following inventions or innovations: • railroad semaphore (1906) • beer keg tap (1910) • self-locking rack for billiard cues (1910) • continuous contact trolley pole (1919) • combination milk bottle opener and cover (1926) • method and apparatus for obtaining average samples and temperature of tank liquids (1931) • automatic gear shift (1932) • transmission and shifting (1933) • automatic shoe shine chair (1939) • multiple barrel machine gun (1940) • horizontally swinging barber chair (1950) • automatic safety brake (1962)

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Kansas City Metropolitan Area The Digital Divide still exists.

Source:https://www.brookings.edu/research/black-and-hispanic-underrepresentation-in-tech-its-time-to-change-the-equation/

Source: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/01/09/diversity- in-the-stem-workforce-varies-widely-across-jobs/

Source: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/01/09/diversity- in-the-stem-workforce-varies-widely-across-jobs/

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