All posts tagged "inventions"
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9.7K13Business and LaborMaine Twins Invent the Stanley Steamer, Climb Mt. Washington
Freelan O. Stanley and his wife Flora climbed Mt. Washington in a Stanley Steamer on Aug. 31, 1899, in one of the...
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3.2KBusiness and LaborFlashback Photo: The Sikorsky Russky Vityaz
In the spring of 1913, word leaked out about a four-engine airplane being built by Igor Sikorsky. Many people believed it wouldn’t get...
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1.9KBusiness and LaborFlashback Photo: Polaroid Sunflower
The Polaroid camera and instant photography would probably not have been invented if Edwin Land hadn’t been inspired by a science...
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4.4K3New HampshireCount Rumford, The Loyalist Ben Franklin
Benjamin Thompson played a part in the American Revolution and the revolution in thermodynamics – and then became the German Count Rumford,...
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6.7K6MassachusettsRobert Goddard, Rocket Scientist, Annoys the Neighbors
As a teenager, Worcester’s Robert Goddard climbed a cherry tree on his family farm on Oct. 19, 1899 and dreamed of building...
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17.9K26Arts and LeisureTeddy Roosevelt Humiliates Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss lived much of his life in California and New York, but never really left Springfield, Mass., where he was born...
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7.8K2Business and LaborHow the Polaroid Camera Was Born at a Connecticut Boys Camp
The Polaroid Corporation was born in a Lebanon, Conn., boys camp in 1922 when a teacher showed a 13-year-old how to take...
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