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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide to Email

Happy Birthday - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card

Monday May 18, 2009
Happy Birthday - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card
"The caoutchouc is exceedingly elastic," noted a young Michael Faraday. He went on to add some flour to the rubber, and air — of course — to produce some of the first balloons. (The flour helped keep the tacky rubber from sticking together before it could be inflated.)
Faraday used his balloons for chemical experiments, but soon toy kits and improved designs using vulcanized rubber appeared. They have been used at birthday parties ever since — and in birthday emails, too:
›› Lovely balloons, nice flowers and, most of all, a happy birthday, these are the things you can send with this wonderful stationery. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

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