When:
July 14

Where:
Everywhere

First occurrence:
1868

On July 14, 1868 a spring loaded tape measure was patented by Alvin J. Fellows of New Haven, Connecticut.
Which is still very much in use nowadays measuring stuff
and making cuts in fingers of people who are not handling their tape measure with care.

#TapeMeasureDay #NationalTapeMeasureDay

• https://www.wired.com/2009/07/dayintech-0714/
• https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US79965.pdf
• https://home.howstuffworks.com/tape-measure.htm