Binney & Smith, now Crayola LLC, was an outgrowth of a chemical company that made pigments. The company started in 1864 in Peekskill, New York, and Joseph W. Binney was […]
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While early Greeks and Mayans found various substances to chew on, it was Native Americans chewing on resin from spruce trees that inspired John Curtis (1827-1897) to create the first chewing gum that was sold commercially.
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The chocolate chip cookie (toll house cookie) was first invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield (1903-1977). She was a trained dietitian who ran the kitchen of the Massachusetts inn she and
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Napoleon Bonaparte was actually the man behind the idea of improving the way that food could be preserved and stored. Bonaparte saw that a major issue with his soldiers
was getting fresh food to them, and he offered a financial award for anyone who developed a preservation method that permitted the military to travel with food for the troops.
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One might expect that the fellow who invented the bread-slicer would be a baker, but inventor Otto Frederick Rohwedder (1880-1960) was a jeweler.
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Created the first of a family of synthetic fibers of exceptional strength Worked on the team that took her creation from invention to product implementation; now this fiber—or some form
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