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The History of the Band-Aid Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid to Save Wife's Fingers. Earle Dickson was employed as a cotton buyer for the Johnson & Johnson when he invented the band-aid in 1921. His wife Josephine Dickson was always cutting her fingers in the kitchen while preparing food. At that time a bandage consisted of separate gauze and adhesive tape that you would cut to size and apply yourself.
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- Bite of History: Hey, Fruit Smack!. Doesn't quite have the same ring as, Hey, Kool-Aid!. But that was actually the original name of this popular beverage. It began as a soft drink syrup offered through Edwin E. Perkins' mail-order business in Hastings, Nebraska. Perkins' father ran a general store in town and it was there that he first encountered Jell-O gelatin.
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Joseph Owades -- brewmaster, created light beer Noted brewing expert and inventor of light beer. Born: July 9, 1919, New York, New York Died: December 16, 2005, Sonoma, California Photo: Courtesy of the family Ran on: 12-20-2005 Joseph Owades created the formulas for Samuel Adams, Pete's Wicked Ale and Foggy Bottom Beer, among others. Obituary photo of Joseph L. Owades, PhD. Noted brewing expert and inventor of light beer. Born: July 9, 1919, New York, New York Died: December 16, 2005, Sonoma, California Photo: Courtesy of the family Ran on: 12-20-2005 Joseph Owades created the formulas for Samuel Adams, Pete's Wicked Ale and Foggy Bottom Beer, among others.
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- While these pharmacists did invent Coca-Cola (1886), Pepsi (1893) Dr Pepper (1885), and Hires Root Beer (1866), the prize for creating carbonated water goes to Joseph Priestley. Born in Leeds, England, Priestley became interested in science after meeting Benjamin Franklin in 1766.
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World Braille Foundation Braille was invented in Paris, France by Louis Braille who, in 1829, published the Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Song by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged by Them.n 1824, a blind Frenchman created and perfected a simple, effective and efficient system of reading and writing by touch. While many had tried before, it fell to 15-year-old Louis Braille to create something that actually met the needs of people who would use it.
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- George Eastman invented “Roll Film” George Eastman was a renowned American inventor, businessman and founder of the Eastman Kodak company. He was born in 1854 in New York to George and Maria Eastman. His father died in 1862, when Eastman was 8 years old and one of his sisters died when he was 16.
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Pepsi The pharmacy of Caleb Bradham, with a Pepsi dispenser. The drink Pepsi was first introduced as Brad's Drink in New Bern, North Carolina, United States, in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his drugstore where the drink was sold. It was renamed Pepsi Cola in 1898 after the root of the word dyspepsia and the kola nuts used in the recipe.
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Cotton candy: The toothy history of a classic circus treat Dentist William Morrison – perhaps seeing more than a few holes in his appointment book – teamed up with candy maker John C. Wharton to invent the device that makes cotton candy as we know it today. At the time, the air-spun sugary treat was called Fairy Floss. Whether Doc Morrison actually advocated flossing teeth with it, we don’t know.
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Alex Grass Alex Grass. Alexander Grass (August 3, 1927 - August 27, 2009) was an American businessman and lawyer who founded Rite Aid, one of the United States' largest drugstore chains.
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How Arnold Palmer (The Man) Invented Arnold Palmer (The Drink) The drink has as many origin stories as a Marvel comic book hero. The rumor at Palmer's alma mater was that he developed the beverage at the Wake Forest dining hall. The man himself sets the record straight in an entertaining new 30 for 30 short, The Arnold Palmer..
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- David Bushnell’s submarine invention and underwater mine were first made known to the American public in 1798 when future-president Thomas Jefferson gave a lecture to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. He used as the source for his talk a 1787 letter to him from David Bushnell documenting in detail both inventions. Later printed, that description in Bushnell’s own language is the basis for his honor as the Father of Submarine Warfare.
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- How Arnold Palmer (The Man) Invented Arnold Palmer (The Drink) British Open 1976. Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England, held 7th - 10th July 1976. Pictured, Arnold Palmer enjoys a cool drink during practice at Birkdale, 6th July 1976.
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The Hearing Aid The first hearing aid using a vacuum tube was the “Vactuphone,” invented by Hanson in 1920. It was produced by Western Electric Co., a leading producer of hearing aids, and distributed by Globe Phone Co. beginning in October 1921 (13).he first hearing aid using a vacuum tube was the “Vactuphone,” invented by Hanson in 1920. It was produced by Western Electric Co., a leading producer of hearing aids, and distributed by Globe Phone Co. beginning in October 1921 (13).
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Pepsi The drink Pepsi was first introduced as Brad's Drink in New Bern, North Carolina, United States, in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his drugstore where the drink was sold.It was renamed Pepsi Cola in 1898, named after the digestive enzyme pepsin and kola nuts used in the recipe.he original trademark application for Pepsi-Cola was filed on September 23, 1902 with registration approved on June 16, 1903. In the application's statement, Caleb Bradham describes the trademark, and indicated that the mark was in continuous use for his business since August 1, 1901.
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The History of the Band-Aid Band-Aid is the trademarked name for bandages sold by the American pharmaceutical and medical devices giant Johnson & Johnson Company, though these popular medical bandages have become a household name since their invention in 1921 by cotton buyer Earle Dickson.
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Letâs Get Physical With Resistance Bands A Rubber Band Revolution. William Spencer founded Alliance Rubber in 1923 and began a Rubber Band Revolution in 1957 with his patent of the Open-Ring band which set the world design standard. Click here for the complete history of Alliance Rubber Company.
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Who invented the bra? Many authors claim that the bra was invented by one Otto Titzling. However, it turns out that this story first appeared in the book Bust Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling by Wallace Reyburn (the same guy that wrote the humorous book that describes how Thomas Crapper invented the toilet).
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compact 1 joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil. 2. arranged within a relatively small space: a compact shopping center; a compact kitchen. 3. designed to be small in size and economical in operation.
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What was Pepsi originally called? Pepsi-Cola was invented by a young pharmacist named Caleb Bradham in 1898. Originally called Brad's Drink, the beverage was first marketed as a digestive aid and energy booster. It was renamed Pepsi-Cola because of its pepsin and kola nut content.
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9 Things Invented or Discovered by Accident In 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was the superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan. He and his brother Will Keith Kellogg were Seventh Day Adventists, and they were searching for wholesome foods to feed patients that also complied with the Adventists' strict vegetarian diet. When Will accidentally left some boiled wheat sitting out, it went stale by the time he returned.
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46 Greatest Logos of All Time (And the Brand They Belong To) His most popular beverage was something he called Brad's drink made of carbonated water, sugar, vanilla, rare oils, pepsin and cola nuts. One of Caleb's formulations, known as Brad's drink, created in the summer of 1893, was later renamed Pepsi Cola after the pepsin and cola nuts used in the recipe. In 1898, Caleb Bradham wisely bought the trade name Pep Cola for $100 from a competitor from Newark, New Jersey that had gone broke.
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History of hearing aids Telephones were able to control the loudness, frequency, and distortion of sounds. These abilities were used in the creation of the hearing aid. The first electric hearing aid, called the Akouphone, was created by Miller Reese Hutchison in 1898. It used a carbon transmitter, so that the hearing aid could be portable.elephones were able to control the loudness, frequency, and distortion of sounds. These abilities were used in the creation of the hearing aid. The first electric hearing aid, called the Akouphone, was created by Miller Reese Hutchison in 1898. It used a carbon transmitter, so that the hearing aid could be portable.
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Kool-Aid The building in Hastings, Nebraska, where Kool-Aid was invented. Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in Hastings, Nebraska. All of his experiments took place in his mother's kitchen. Its predecessor was a liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack.
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The Hearing Aid The first hearing aid using a vacuum tube was the “Vactuphone,” invented by Hanson in 1920. It was produced by Western Electric Co., a leading producer of hearing aids, and distributed by Globe Phone Co. beginning in October 1921 (13).
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The Guy Who Invented One of the First Artificial Hearts Was Also the Voice of Gargamel on the Smurfs, Winnie the Pooh, and Tigger Too The Jarvik-7 was successfully used in a human in 1982 and was invented by Robert Jarvik more than a decade after Winchell’s artificial heart patent was approved.Jarvik denies Winchell’s design influenced his own.However, Jarvik developed his artificial heart at the University of Utah, which was the same University that Winchell donated his patent for the artificial heart, around the same time Jarvik was working on his version.Thus, it is unlikely Jarvik was unaware of Winchell’s similar design at the time.arvik denies Winchell’s design influenced his own. However, Jarvik developed his artificial heart at the University of Utah, which was the same University that Winchell donated his patent for the artificial heart, around the same time Jarvik was working on his version.
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When Magnesium Makes Me Worse this usually happens if you have adrenal fatigue and weakness from magnesium deficiency anyone in this category should start very slowly on any new supplement or drug if you take a high dose of magnesium right from the start it s like using muscles that powered a bicycle and expect them to power a jet your body might just be so weak that revving up 800 enzyme systems all at once makes you feel jangled and even anxious or depressed because you don t know what s going on