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Dorothy Hempstead 1879 - 1969

Dorothy Hempstead of Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina was born on July 15, 1879, and died at age 89 years old in March 1969.
Dorothy Hempstead
Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina 28655
July 15, 1879
March 1969
Female
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    1879

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    July 15, 1879
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  • 03/dd
    1969

    Death

    March 1969
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    Dorothy Hempstead lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1879, in the year that Dorothy Hempstead 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 1890, she was just 11 years old when on June 1st, the U.S. Census Bureau started tabulating census returns with punch cards. Herman Hollerith's "tabulating machine" used punch cards to more quickly compute census information, taking the time to get census results from 8 years in 1880 to 6 years for the 1890 census. Hollerith's company eventually became IBM.
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