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Benjamin Guss 1879 - 1964

Benjamin Guss of New York was born on July 13, 1879, and died at age 85 years old in September 1964.

Benjamin Guss

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July 13, 1879

September 1964

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In 1879, in the year that Benjamin Guss was born, on October 22nd, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb. Lasting 13½ hours before burning out, it used a "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". He applied for a patent on November 4th, receiving the patent in January 1880.

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In 1884, at the age of just 5 years old, Benjamin was alive when on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.

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