- A dentist from Buffalo New York named Alfred P. Southwick invented the electric chair.
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- Scientists have discovered a way to make biodegradable plastic from plants by using genetic engineering.
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- White-Out was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, who is the mother of Michael Nesmith from the "The Monkees."
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- Jim Bristoe, an American, invented a 30-foot-long, 2-ton pumpkin cannon that can fire pumpkins up to five miles.
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- Following directions off the Internet and chemicals obtained from a mail order company, a team of U.S. scientists created an identical copy of the polio virus.
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- The first modern dishwashing machine was invented by wealthy American socialite Josephine Cochrane in 1886. She invented it so her servants would stop chipping her china!
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- During one seven year period, Thomas Edison obtained approximately three hundred patents. In is whole life he obtained over one thousand patents.
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- In 1845, inventor Thomas Adams started the world's first chewing gum factory.
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- In 1905, Chapman and Skinner in San Francisco invented the first portable electric vacuum.
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- In 1936, the first practical helicopter was invented. It was the German Focke-Wulf Fw 61.
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- In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premier at Expo 67.
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- The microwave oven was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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- The revolving door was invented in 1888, by Theophilus Van Kannel.
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- Walter Hunt patented the safety pin in 1849. He later sold the patent rights for only $400.
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- While still in college, Bill Gates and Paul Allen once built a special purpose machine called "Traff-O-Data." It was a machine that would analyze information gathered by traffic monitors. They never found any buyers.
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- The projection light used for IMAX theaters can be seen from space.
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- The cross bow was invented by the Chinese and records of its usage goes back to as far as the Three Kingdom Period (220 a.d.-280 a.d.).
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- Adolf Hitler was one of the people that was responsible in the creation of the Volkswagen Beetle. He came up with the idea of producing a car that was cheap enough for the average German working man to afford.
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- Swiss engineer George de Mestral, who got the idea after noticing burrs were sticking to his pants after his regular walks through the woods, invented Velcro.
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- In 1871, horse cars were introduced. It was simply a car that was pulled over a track by a horse.
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- The CIA has made a disk camera that is as big as a quarter. This gadget can take many pictures at a time when the disk is opened.
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- The first German car to be built solely outside of Germany is the BMW Z3.
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