All posts tagged "inventions"
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19.7K4Business and LaborThomas Davenport Makes the First Electric Car in America in 1834
Today’s makers of electric cars should tip their hats to Thomas Davenport of Forest Dale in Central Vermont. He made the first...
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38.5K4Business 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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16.2K5Arts and LeisureSeeing Boston By Streetcar on Film in 1906
Seeing Boston By Streetcar stands as one of the first films of the city ever made. It offers today’s viewer a fascinating glimpse...
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10.7K5Business and LaborAmazing Grace Hopper, COBOL Inventor and Slayer of Dragons, Gremlins and Bugs
In 1946, the U.S. Navy considered Grace Hopper too old to be an officer. Thirty-seven years later, President Ronald Reagan promoted her...
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5.4K2Business and LaborAnother Day of Infamy: Airing of the First TV Commercial
On Dec. 7, 1930, what is believed to be the world’s first TV commercial aired from a primitive television station on Brookline...
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12.6K2Arts and LeisureHelen Metcalf, The Mom Who Founded RISD With Some Leftover Dough
In 1877, a Providence mom named Helen Metcalf persuaded her women’s club to spend money left over from a fair to found...
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