PDA

View Full Version : This Day in Mandolin History - August 30



NewsFetcher
Aug-30-2011, 2:40am
August 30, 1904, Francis J. Stenger of Detroit awarded U.S. Patent #769118 (http://www.google.com/patents?id=xRpBAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1) for a combined string instrument.

http://www.mandolincafe.com/archives/thisday/images/patents.jpg (http://www.google.com/patents?id=xRpBAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1)

This is a randomly selected event for today's date. For a list of all events that occurred on this date including internal and external links to these resources (interviews, audio files, historical links, etc.) visit the Mandolin Cafe's This Day in History (http://www.mandolincafe.com/archives/thisday/).