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	America's Librarian Dr. John Shaw Billings, a graduate of Miami University and the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati, was one of the world's most famous librarians.
	Automated Price Tags Frederick Kohnle, of Dayton, invented the first successful machine for mechanizing the identification and price marking of retail merchandise.
	Xerox Copies Researchers at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus in the 1940s developed many of the innovations that made xerography possible.
	Chemical Abstracts Service Chemical Abstracts Service, founded in Columbus in 1907, provides pathways to published research in the world's journal and patent literature.
	Father of American Telecommunications Theodore Newton Vail oversaw construction of America's first transcontinental telephone system while president of the AT&T.
	Online Computer Library OCLC is a service and research organization dedicated to furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs.
	Lexis-Nexis The Lexis® service, the first commercial, full-text legal information service, began in Dayton to help legal practitioners research the law more efficiently.
	Funk and Wagnall's Dictionary Adam Wagnalls was co-founder of the Funk and Wagnalls Publishing Company, publisher of the famous Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary.
	Weekly Reader Eleanor Johnson in 1928 published the first copy of Weekly Reader in Columbus to introduce elementary school pupils to world news and opinion.
	Home Mail Delivery Joseph Briggs instituted the first free home mail delivery in Cleveland and the U.S. Government called upon him to institute the system nationwide.
	Nation's First Mass Medium In 1878, Edward W. Scripps borrowed $10,000 from his brothers to launch of a newspaper in Cleveland aimed at urban workers -- "The Penny Press."
	Improved LCD Displays Two Ohioans have had a great impact on the liquid crystal display (LCD) market.
	Spencerian System of Penmanship Platt R. Spencer developed the Spencerian system of penmanship. Teachers in almost all U.S. schools adopted the system in the late 19th century.
	McGuffy Reader William H. McGuffy developed his famous McGuffy Reader series -  the standard text for teaching kids to read in U.S. elementary schools.
	The Buck Stops Started Here Salmon P. Chase, a Cincinnati lawyer, invented modern U.S. currency, including coins with the words "In God We Trust" and green paper money.
	First Radio Station Inventors Lee deForest and Frank Buttler First established the first radio broadcasting station in Toledo in 1907.
	Tintype Photography In 1856, Hamilton L. Smith patented the ferrotype in America, popularly know as the tintype.
	Tickertape Machine Samuel S. Laws, a Cincinnati gold broker, invented the tickertape machine, a device that transmitted stock prices on a long strip of paper.
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