Elmer’s Glue was first introduced by the Borden Company in 1947. A dairy company going into the adhesive business may at first seem surprising, but it makes good sense when […]
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The shopping cart was invented in the mid-1930s by Sylvan N. Goldman (1898-1984). Goldman ran a grocery store chain called Humpty Dumpty, and he observed that shoppers struggled with the
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The ice cream cone is said to have originated at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904. But that leaves out an important part of history: the
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Amanda Theodosia Jones (1835-1914) was a multi-talented woman, a prolific inventor, and a frequently published writer. Her inventions were in two very different fields—food preservation and canning, and the use
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Fannie Farmer (1857-1915) became famous as an author of a highly popular cookbook that broke new ground by specifying exact measurements in its recipes. Farmer was the first professional cook
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• Victor Green’s book (The Negro Motorist Green Book), was a travel guide for African Americans. It was needed because of Jim Crow laws. During the 1940s and ‘50s, Americans
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