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To: flowergirl

If the BC was typed out at the time (1964) when it was requested, the current (1964) document would have been used to type upon etc...

There were no Xerox machines or computers in 1964...

All the documents would have been typed out individually...

The ready made document would have annotated “Republic” etc..

And as Mombasa was now in Kenya (if it had been somewhere else in 1961) the clerk would have put “Kenya”

The new name of the hospital might also have been typed instead of the old...an admi n decision..

Plus since they had thrown off the yoke of “Empirialism” they would not have wanted to keep the old traditional names of buildings etc..

What was written on a hand written or typed document was up to the clerk at the time...

As long as the essentials were there, if the clerk wanted to add more info they did...

I have BC etc of family members that have more unnecessary info than was required...

Its great now but it wasnt necessary then...


5,567 posted on 08/03/2009 1:10:31 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

In 1937, the process called Xerography was invented by American law student Chester Carlson. Carlson had invented a copying process based on electrostatic energy. Xerography became commercially available in 1950 by the Xerox Corporation. Xerography comes from the Greek for “dry writing”.


5,576 posted on 08/03/2009 1:15:05 PM PDT by Diggity
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