LOOKING BACK

1873: Levi Strauss and tailor Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for men’s work pants made with copper rivets.

1899: Taxi driver Jacob German was pulled over and arrested by a police officer riding a bicycle for speeding down Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue in his electric car at 12 miles an hour at a time when the speed limit was 8 mph; it was the first recorded speeding arrest in U.S. history.