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History Matters: Electric Fans
11/1/2007
By David A. Fryxell
Innovations and trends that shaped your ancestors' lives.

Striking a Blow

Let us not allow 2007 to slide into the history books without taking note of an otherwise-overlooked anniversary: This year we celebrate the 125th birthday of the electric fan, invented in 1882 by Schuyler Skaats Wheeler.

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