All posts tagged "Howland Maine"
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27.9K4Business and LaborPercy Spencer Melts a Chocolate Bar, Invents the Microwave Oven
Percy Spencer had only a fifth-grade education, but that didn’t stop him from earning patents crucial to winning World War II –...
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31.9K3ConnecticutHercules Had It Easy Compared to the Great 1938 Hurricane Tree Cleanup
The Great 1938 Hurricane blew down so many trees that paper mills were still processing them nine years later. Trees downed by...
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2.6K2MaineA Canoe Trip Down the Allagash, July 6, 1911
The spell of the woods stayed for weeks with Henry Withee and Horace Bailey after they canoed down the Allagash River for nine...
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