These unique all-terrain vehicles were invented during World War II with the code name "DUKW" – later simplified to "duck" – to move troops and supplies by land and sea in one swoop. During a one-hour tour with Original Wisconsin Ducks, guests are shuttled through a forest of ferns,...
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, he probably didn’t imagine how far it would come over the next century and a half. In 1919, the American Bell Telephone Company launched national service for rotary dial phones, the first mass-produced phone controlled by the user. ...
General Electric gets its knack for invention from its founder, Thomas Edison, who invented both the incandescent light bulb and the electrical grid. The scripted GE letters in the logo date back to the 1890s, although they've been streamlined a bit over the years. Logo #23 Todd Wickersty ...
Our host said he’d invented it that morning: grape fruit, rosemary & lemon. We asked for two more of these over the course of the night :-) Our chefs explained that we should cleanse our palette’s with pickles between bites. YOU DON’T HAVE TO ASK ME TWICE. I think they refilled...
People who pride themselves on the scientific way of distinguishing between things that are real and things that are unsubstantiated (imaginary, invented, spurious) usually draw a firm line between facts that have been, and can be, demonstrated by experiment or predicted to happen in prescribed ...
1953: Rabbit ears In 1953, television became a lot clearer whenMarvin P. Middlemark invented rabbit earswhich could be placed on or near televisions to improve the reception. The industry has seen an uptick in the purchase of modernsmall and digital antennasoffering inexpensive options for channel...
John Lloyd Wright, son of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, invented Lincoln Logs after noticing a foundation of interlocking beams on a Tokyo hotel that his father had designed. The earliest Lincoln Logs used redwood and various colors for the roof. To this day, it’s not clear wheth...
General Electric gets its knack for invention from its founder, Thomas Edison, who invented both the incandescent light bulb and the electrical grid. The scripted GE letters in the logo date back to the 1890s, although they've been streamlined a bit over the years. Logo #23 Todd Wickersty...
DEBRA_LIDAN@163.COM Read Hot News • Learn Hot Words 读热点新闻 学热门词汇 这些"法国货"原来不是法国产的 These 'French' things weren't actually created in France French fries, French kiss and French braid — these things tagged with the word French were not actually invented in France. ...
3. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash While Bell was instrumental in the development of the telephone, there were other inventors working on similar devices at the time. 4. Masturbation will make you go blind. Alex Guillaume on Unsplash This claim has no...