George Washington Carver ,Betsy Ross, Abner Doubleday and Pythagoras are noted for something they never actually did. by Mr. Prince De-Grant Brempong.

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My story is entitled George Washington Carver, Betsy Ross, Abner Day, and Pythagoras are noted to be famous for something they never actually did due to their invention within their country.


The story is told of George Washington Carver, who is acknowledged for inventing Peanut butter. Also George Washington Carver is an American Scientist and also an inventor who is famous for creating alternative food products and farming methods.

Also Carvers many innovations earned him other comparisons to Leonardo da Vinci , the erroneous belief that he was credited with the invention of Peanut butter that was stuck in the popular imagination.

It was also noted that Carver was indeed a Peanut Pioneer, he is reputed to have found over three hundred uses for the legume during his career but he wasn't the person to create peanut butter.

Also George Washington Carver invented the peanut butter for consumption for potential buyers.

Again peanut butter pastes can be found in South America.

Modern peanut butter substances were first patented in 1884 by Marcellus Edson who referred to it as "peanut candy" and later by John Harvey Kellog who also unveiled the process for creating peanut butter in the year 1895.

He was also eventually the most famous advocate, George Washington Carver also began his own experiments on Peanut butter until 1903.

George Washington Carver is noted to be the inventor of peanut butter and he is famous for something he never actually did.

Also George Washington Carver was made famous because the Peanut butter was sold in stores all over America even in some parts of the World, Peanut butter is sold world over within almost every country.

The product of peanut butter sold in stores by the help of George Washington Carver invention earned him some money to expand his business and also he made great wealth that made him famous all over the country.

He was noted as the rich and famous inventor of Peanut butter.

George Washington Carver, also an American Scientist, invention of food products within the country created employment and also earned for himself income for his family.

He also helped most Americans to secure for themselves good jobs in food products Industry and other farms within the country.


George Washington Carver in 1903 carried on his Research and other experiments in order to have a good recipe for Peanut butter.

However , George Washington Carver recipe for Peanut butter made him produce alot of Peanut butter for human consumption.

George Washington Carver prepared peanut butter but his invention made him famous for something he never actually did, he became wealthy after his invention in the United States of America a land of opportunity and plenty.

Betsy Ross was made famous in America for making the first American flag. A persistent legend in the history of America was noted for making the first American flag and she was a Philadelphia seamstress.

In the year 1776, Betsy Ross was commissioned to sew the flag which then featured a circle of thirteen stars by a small Committee that included George Washington.

Also Betsy Ross produced her famous flag a few days later and altered for a change in the design to make the stars five pointed rather than six pointed within the country, America.

All over the world and in American schools, a version of this story about the invention of the flag of America by Betsy Ross is taught in classrooms which happens to be mostly considered as a tale by most tutors.

Again newspapers from this time makes no reference to Betsy Ross or the meeting and George Washington never mentioned her involvement in creating the flag.


In 1870 ,Betsy Ross legend made it first appearance, when her grandson , William Candy related it to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Also showing affidavits from her family members, William Candy, related it to Historical Society of Pennsylvania in America.

Also her grandson, William Candy never produced any convincing evidence to support his claim entirely.

It is also considered true that Betsy Ross made the first American flags in the year 1770 but the tale of her first flag indicates that it is likely untrue but she did not produce almost the American flags used in that country.

Abner Doubleday was noted as a Civil war general and Abolitionist who famously ordered the first Union shots in the defense of Fort Sumter.

Also while, he had a distinguish Military Career ,Abner Doubleday is more commonly remembered for inventing baseball even though he did no such thing, he was famous for something ,he actually did.

In 1905, the former National league President A.G. Mills headed a commission to investigate the origins of Americas favorite past time.


However, based on a letter from a man named Abner Graves the commission incorrectly concluded that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York in 1839. As according to the truth ,Abner Doubleday was then attending the West Point in 1839 and had never claimed any involvement with baseball.

Again , nevertheless the myth persisted for years in our history and the Baseball Hall of Fame was even established in Cooperstown on the sports mistaken centennial in 1939.

Another person who is famous for something he never actually did is Pythagoras. Pythagoras is noted to be famous and well learned for something he never actually did.


Also anyone who takes geometry class seem to have had the Pythagoreem Theorem drilled into his memory.

This theorem also states that for any right angle triangle the square of the hypotenuse that is the longest side is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. It is a valuable tool used for bridge building construction by the help of Pythagoras.

The Pythagoras theory was used in determining the distance between two points.

However it was noted that this known theorem was named after the Greek philosopher , Pythagoras.

Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician and what is known about him was recorded by historians who lived hundreds of years thereafter when he died. Although he is believed to be the first mathematician his actual contributions to the field of Mathematics are mostly unknown.

He is quiet noted to have found a school the Semi circle of Pythagoras, that walked the fence between Science and religion.

It also focused an intellectual pursuits as well an understanding of the divine meaning behind numbers as in Mathematics.

The school also practised collectivism meaning any discoveries made by any member were attributed to Pythagorean Theorem.

Also a clay tablet originating from the Old Babylonian period shows that the Babylonians already knew the mathematical relationship between the diagonal of a square and it's sides a special case of the Pythagorean Theorem is over a thousand years.


Finally, these people who were considered mostly as inventors were brilliant , incredible noted as persons doing something inconceivably great or virtuous within their country.


August 31, 2020 10:57

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