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#4057516 - 12/30/14 03:01 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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Ohio is home to the Spangler Candy company, who probably made the candy canes in everyone's stockings. My wife is originally from Michigan and we toured the Spangler factory and Etch-A- Sketch.


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#4057519 - 12/30/14 03:13 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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Robert Moog spent the last 30 years of his life in Asheville and continued to create synthesizer models until his death in 2005. We had a local Atari club and Dr. Moog did a few presentations there, most interesting.


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#4057523 - 12/30/14 03:24 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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#4057524 - 12/30/14 03:26 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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Krispy Cream Donuts, Bojangles, cheerwine, and sundrop were all invented in North Carolina.

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#4057528 - 12/30/14 03:30 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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Looking up inventions in my new, old home (been here for 24yrs) found that Texas Pete was invented by a family from Garner.

#4057534 - 12/30/14 03:54 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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Boston built the first subway system in US

Robert Goddard launched the first liquid fueled rocket in Auburn MA

MIT - first computer

MIT - the internet

The Red Cross

Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber in MA

Basketball and Volleyball originated in MA

The game Monopoly

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#4057535 - 12/30/14 03:57 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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Not an invention, but... biggrin

The Lombard Steam Log Hauler was invented by Maine native Alvin Orlando Lombard. I've seen photos from the very early 20th century of one of these things (or a similar model) pulling a 320,000lb train of log cars out of the snowy woods.


I'd be willing to bet there's more than 160 tons of logs in this train LOL. This is obviously not a steam-powered tractor, of course.


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#4057541 - 12/30/14 04:24 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: piper]  
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Originally Posted By: piper
Looking up inventions in my new, old home (been here for 24yrs) found that Texas Pete was invented by a family from Garner.


Actually, the Garner family and T.W. Garner Food Company is from Winston-Salem, best I can tell.


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#4057545 - 12/30/14 04:28 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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Vick's vaporub, PuttPutt minigolf, the UPC or bar code, the heat pump, During World War II, U.S. soldiers relied heavily on the M-1 carbine, a semiautomatic rifle invented by David Marshall Williams of Cumberland County, and William F. Troxler, for example, saw his small basement workshop grow into a multimillion-dollar international electronics firm. A native of Thomasville and a graduate of North Carolina State University, Troxler in the late 1950s and early 1960s began making highly specialized components for satellites, navigational instruments, and nuclear gauges. Worldwide interest in his products resulted in the establishment of Troxler Electronics and fueled his company's rapid development in the Research Triangle Park during the 1970s and 1980s.


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#4057550 - 12/30/14 04:45 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: NH2112]  
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Originally Posted By: NH2112
One that came to mind immediately is something that cold-weather hunters and outdoorsmen the world over are thankful for:



Man, those are the most hardcore boots I've ever seen! (and warm looking at the same time) thumbsup

@JohnnyChemo - "Old Sparky" ... LOL!

#4057551 - 12/30/14 04:46 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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Damn, lots of stuff was invented in North Carolina.


What about South Carolina?


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#4057552 - 12/30/14 04:46 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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@JC - More Buffalo stuff

Worlds first major hydroelectric plant (Niagara Falls) 1895
Silicon carbide - (Carborundum) - 1895
America's first jet fighter P-59 (Bell) - 1942
First supersonic aircraft (X1) (Bell) - 1947
Implantable Pacemaker (Greatbatch) - 1960
First American space suit (Carleton Tech) - 1960's

Up until 1930, most of the worlds aircraft where built in Buffalo between Consolidated, Fleet, Bell, Curtis-Wright, and probably a few others I can't recall.

Now the important ones
Beef on Weck - 190? (If you haven't had one, needs to be on your bucket list)
Chicken wings - Anchor Bar (1960's)

@Panzermeyer - Yes, AC was invented here and for a little bit more irony, NY state is in the midst of funding the worlds largest solar cell plant here in Buffalo. I suspect the next Solyndra brewing on that one, but I maybe wrong.


#4057561 - 12/30/14 05:30 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: coasty]  
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Originally Posted By: coasty
Robert Moog spent the last 30 years of his life in Asheville and continued to create synthesizer models until his death in 2005. We had a local Atari club and Dr. Moog did a few presentations there, most interesting.

From a former Toronto Atari Federation member, I salute you. salute

LOL! I loved Atari when I was a teenager.

http://www.vex.net/~schrist/taf/

(Geddy on a Moog ...)





#4057562 - 12/30/14 05:37 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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Hmm, lets see. Moon Pies, Double-Cola, the Wrecker truck, Little Debbies, and bottled Coca-Cola are our claim to fame. Oh, and Samuel L. Jackson.


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#4057563 - 12/30/14 05:41 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Willis Carrier invented modern day air conditioning right here in Buffalo, NY.

LOL Somehow I find that humorous that A/C was invented in such a cold area like Buffalo. biggrin


What can I say? We know cold!


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#4057576 - 12/30/14 08:24 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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Hanoverans (the horse race; if not a great invention, at least they are large)
The binary system (G.W. Leibniz)
The mechanical calculator (G.W. Leibniz)
The Gramophone (E. Berliner)
PAL color TV (W. Bruch)


Known inventors from or around Hannover:
Werner von Siemens (inventor of the dynamo, founder of the Siemens corporation)


Countless corporate inventions by

Bahlsen (cakes, cookies, crackers, chips/crisps), Continental (tires, rubber, automotive), Pelikan, and Geha (both with ink and ball pens). As it happens, they all originate from the same road in Hanover, the Podbielski street.

#4057577 - 12/30/14 08:32 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: JohnnyChemo]  
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Originally Posted By: JohnnyChemo
From Buffalo, NY, we get:

[...]

In 1854, the first paper samples made from wood pulp are demonstrated in Buffalo, as inventor John Beardsley shows three samples made from basswood to the editor of the Buffalo "Democrat"


That seemed awfully late, so a quick check - yup:
first demonstrated by a canadian from Sackville NS,
Charles Fenerty in 1844 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fenerty
He neglected to patent, and his invention was apparently
not acted on by regional paper producers; the first patent
came from independent development by Friedrich Gottlob Keller
in Germany, the next year (1845), and production started in
Germany in 1852 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Gottlob_Keller

#4057591 - 12/30/14 10:18 AM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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Originally Posted By: Linebacker
Originally Posted By: NH2112
One that came to mind immediately is something that cold-weather hunters and outdoorsmen the world over are thankful for:



Man, those are the most hardcore boots I've ever seen! (and warm looking at the same time) thumbsup


Well, these are my go-to winter boots for the past 9 years, but even though they're warmer than the Beans and fit snowshoe bindings better I had to give props to the originals LOL. I recommend them! (And I'm not getting paid to say that LOL.)



They're even from Canada! Originally, at least; 3 guesses as to where they're made now.

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#4057610 - 12/30/14 12:15 PM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: knightgames]  
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MIT - first computer





I think a few would dispute that, what MIT did was make the first computer with RAM in 1955.

There have been a few computers built before that, Conrad Zuse built one in Germany between 1936-1938 and before that Charles Babbage designed and built a model of the Difference engine in 1822 and went on to design the Analytical Engine but it was left to his son Henry to build a portion of it in 1910.
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/analyten.htm


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#4057613 - 12/30/14 12:25 PM Re: Great inventions that originated from your home town/city/state/province [Re: Linebacker]  
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To many to mention from Scotland, but in my home town of Falkirk, the first ever television broadcast was made from a little cafe.


"John Logie Baird and John Hart demonstrated a prototype of the television camera and transmitter to the Royal Society in 1926, in the Temperance Cafe. Included in this audience was Mr. Robert Shaw who indeed became the first publicly televised face that appeared on that flickering screen."

"A moment of such importance that changed the world forever. Developments such as RADAR, Fibre Optics and Fax machines can all be credited to John Logie Baird."

There is a wee plaque on the side of the building that's still there and as a kid remember seeing the original equipment which was housed in the local museum, but has since been moved to the Royal Scottish Museum.

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