Originally shared by Adafruit Industries
The Incredible Bessie Blount
https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/10/20/the-incredible-bessie-blount/
via Smithsonian
In 1952, Bessie Blount boarded a plane from New York to France to give away her life’s work. The 38-year-old inventor planned to hand over to the French military, free of charge, an extraordinary technology that would change lives for disabled veterans of the Second World War: an automatic feeding device. To use it, a person only needed to bite down on a switch, which would deliver a mouthful of food through a spoon-shaped tube.
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