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goodbye/fun facts....national automatic door day...The Ancient Greeks didn’t just give us the Olympics — they also gifted the world with automatic doors. At least this is what historians believe. According to them, Greek mathematician and engineer Heron of Alexandria wrote about an automatic door-adjacent mechanism that was used to open up temple gates sometime around the 1st century A.D. using fire and pressure to open gates. It was only in the 20th century that the world got its first real automatic doors. This invention began with American engineers Horace Raymond and Sheldon Roby, who designed an automatic door in 1931 that was installed in a restaurant in Connecticut... and would open for waiters carrying plates of food and drink. Still, the world recognizes American engineers Dee Horton and Lew Hewitt as the brains behind today’s automatic doors. Their invention, created in 1954, used hidden sensors to automatically open doors...and today automatic doors are not only convienent...they're mandatory on all new buildings