All posts tagged "Waltham Mass."
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30.9K4Business 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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5.8K3MassachusettsHannah Ropes Spends 6 Months in Kansas With Loaded Pistols and Bowie Knife
On Sept. 11, 1855, Hannah Ropes, a 46-year-old single parent, stepped onto a train in Boston and headed to the ‘Far-Off Land’...
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27.1K5Arts and LeisureGeorge Francis Train, One of the Few Sane Men in a Mad, Mad World
George Francis Train, a nutty, attention-seeking businessman, in 1871 traveled around the world in 80 days. The feat caused a sensation, but...
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1.3K1members onlyCelia Thaxter Is Vexed at Her Ignorance, May 1, 1890
The 19th-century writer Celia Thaxter was so outraged by the slaughter of birds for ladies’ hats that in 1886 she became the...
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