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Inventors & Inventions

• Can you tell me what year and what model of car was the first to have a heater installed?
• What product was the first to be purchased by scanning its barcode?
• What were the first U.S. cities linked by a transcontinental phone line?
• When was the Heimlich maneuver first demonstrated?
• Where does fingerprinting come from?
• Did William Sturgeon invent the electromagnet? And if so why was that important?
• My son and a friend are working on a an 8th grade history project. Could you tell us who invented or patented bearings? He loves skateboarding and this is why he chose this topic.
• My son came home and asked me when KOOL-AID was invented, and by who. Can you help?
• Who invented the parking meter?
• Who is the Phillips head screwdriver named after? Is there really a Phillips?
• How did the lady who thought up the Slinky get the company to pay her for her idea?
• How fast did the original Wright brothers' airplane fly?
• When were tea bags invented?
• A project I am working on for this class requires that I know the exact distance between the grooves on a CD. I've looked everywhere, and I cannot find this information. I was hoping that you could tell me what the distance is, or at least where I could find such information on the Internet.
• Who invented the ambulance vehicle?
• A chemical first prepared by Felix Hoffman in 1897 and patented in 1899 became one of the most globally popular drugs of all time. Name it.
• Can you tell me who invented the ATM and when?
• Who, where and when was the first Teddy Bear made?
• Who invented the mailbox and when?
• Who invented Nintendo?
• My daughter is working on a school project and we want to know invented the scissors?
• Who was the first person to be cremated in the U.S.?
• Who invented peanut butter?
• Why do trains have emergency cords available to the public? Is there EVER a case where a passenger pulling the cord would be the right course of action?
• Is the monkey wrench named for a man named Moncky?
• When were contact lenses invented?
• What did Henry Blair invent?
• When were fortune cookies invented?
• Who was the only U.S. president to have a patent on an invention? What was the invention?

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