some more facts -
13th March 2005, 05:34 PM
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them." -Anonymous
The Stethoscope was invented by Dr. Rene Laennec in 1816, because he was too embarrassed to listen to a young pretty woman's heart.
The Teddy Bear was invented by Morris Michtom when word got out that President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear cub on a hunting trip.
The flyswatter was invented in1905 by a school teacher named Frank H. Rose of Kansas.
Coupons were invented in 1895 by C.W. Post to help sell Post's Grape Nuts Cereal.
Levi Strauss invented jeans during the Gold Rush when he noticed that miners needed stronger pants. Levi's first jeans were made out of tent canvas.
Ruth Wakefield invented chocolate chip cookies in 1930 at the Toll House Inn. She substituted broken pieces of chocolate instead of baker's chocolate.
John Montague, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, enjoyed gambling. He wanted to be able to eat & gamble at the same time. Therefore, he took his meat & put it between two pieces of bread.
In 1973 the National Inventors Hall of Fame began & the first inductee was Thomas A. Edison.
A 19 year old French boy named Blaise Pascal invented the calculator in order to help his dad who was a clerk. The first calculator was a wooden box with 16 dials on it.
In 1875 it was illegal to to have ice-cream sodas on Sunday. So instead people began eating ice-cream with everything but the soda water. Hence the invention of the Sundae.
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