The Invention of the Jukebox
A jukebox! If you walk into a themed restaurant where they have jukeboxes, it’s still a thrill. The thought of choosing some tunes that remind us of our teen years […]
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Inventions for Entertainment
James A. Bailey, Circus Impresario
James A. Bailey (1847-1906) was the lesser-known but equally important partner in the Barnum & Bailey Circus, a full-scale spectacle that delighted young and old. It was known as “the
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The World’s First Ferris Wheel: Chicago 1893
The first Ferris Wheel—known as the Big Wheel—was constructed for the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. It dazzled and then it was gone. This world’s fair was to celebrate
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How the Microphone Changed Music
Just as the development of e-mail in the 1990s changed the love letter, the technology of the 1920s forever altered the love song. In the late nineteenth and early
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Lincoln Logs Invented by Frank L. Wright’s Son
Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, the son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. John did not plan to be a toy inventor. But in so many ways, creating
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Drive-In Movie Theaters
The concept for the first drive-in movie business originated with one man in the late 1920s. Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr. came up with the concept of watching movies from one’s
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