Margaret Knight is best remembered as the inventor of the machine that makes flat-bottomed paper bags. This was a 19th-century innovation that still influences machinery today. However, that single achievement […]
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How did early drivers get gasoline before there were gas stations? Until “horseless carriages” began traveling along American roads, there hadn’t been much need for gasoline. Gasoline was identified during
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The Brownie camera was the first inexpensive device that regular people could use to take photographs. This was a very exciting prospect for Americans at the turn of the century.
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Cross-country travel by plane? By the early 1920s, dreamers knew that one day people would fly across the country. The questions were when, how, and would it be safe? As
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Before there were passenger airline flights there were regularly scheduled flights for the U.S. mail. These flights actually inspired the idea that people might like to travel by plane. In the 1920s,
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Today we take air conditioning for granted. There can be community “brown-outs,” household power outages, or families who prefer open windows. But for the most part, Americans are able to
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