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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Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband, Albert, created an early closed-circuit television system to be used for home monitoring. That security system was the forerunner of all advanced home
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Valentines need to be held to be appreciated. An e-valentine just isn’t the same. A woman in Massachusetts was the first to develop the concept of mass- producing valentines. She
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No article of clothing better represents America than a pair of denim jeans. The birth of this ubiquitous apparel took place about 150 years ago (1873). Two men received a
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• First African-American businessman to make Forbes list of wealthiest people
• In 1992 donated largest gift from an individual in Harvard Law School’s history
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Internet entrepreneur Evan Britton has built a profitable company, Resource Webs, by acquiring educational and niche sites built by people who were passionate about each subject; Resource Webs then sells the opportunity for targeted advertising. The traffic to two of Britton’s sites caught his interest, and he began wondering how he could benefit from what he was observing.
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