Oct. 11 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1811, the first steam-powered ferry in the world, the Juliana, started its run between New York City and Hoboken, N.J. In 1868, Thomas Alva Edison filed papers for his first invention: an electrical vote recorder to rapidly tabulate floor votes in the U.S. Congress. Edison's device was issued U.S. Patent 90,646 on June 1, 1869. Members of Congress rejected the apparatus and it was never utilized. In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education banned