Who invented the first cereal? Bland Beginnings: Today, cereal is so plentiful and the variety so vast that entire aisles of the grocery store are dedicated exclusively to this breakfast food. The basic cereal is made from grain, whether the grain is rice, wheat, corn, or oats. While most...
Who invented the magnifying glass? Who invented the first sink? Who invented the first cereal? Who invented the first baseball glove? Who invented the first mechanical computer? Who invented the first air conditioner? Who invented the iPod?
Apple Jacks cereal, which was invented by the late MIT professor William Thilly, are displayed on grocery store shelves alongside other Kellogg's cereals.Erin Clark/Globe Staff William Thilly had many job titles during his life: groundbreaking researcher into human genetic mutations, Ma...
The stackable-snack-crisp brand has decided to give its logo and can a makeover for the first time in 20 years — streamlining it “to better highlight the flavors in every can and showcase his new range of emotions to match,” the company said. Gone are the orangish-brownish tufts of...
According to Stein, muesli is "an uncooked cereal combining grains, nuts, seeds and fruits." Moore points out that muesli can be eaten either hot or cold; to eat it hot, cook on the stovetop in either water or milk. ... Moore adds that it's "ready to eat straight out of the bag...
In 2004, at an excavation site called Ohalo II, in what is modern-day Israel, scientists found 22,000-year-old barley grains caught in a grinding stone: the first evidence of humans processing wild cereal grains. But these early "bread" creations were probably more like "flat cakes of gr...
He invented the Voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his experiments in 1800 in a two-part letter to the President of the Royal Society. With this invention Volta proved that electricity could be generated chemically and debunked the prevalent theory that electricity was generated ...
Anyone who has spent any time in New Zealand or around Kiwis wouldn’t be surprised for a second to learn that bungee jumping was basically invented, at least commercially, by jumping off this perfectly nice bridge into a terrifying gorge. Anyone who has spent any significant time around us ...
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 Companylaunched national servicefor rotary dial phones, the first mass-produced phone controlled by the user. When...
In 1954 George Devol invented the first digitally operated and a programmable robot called the Unimate. In 1956, Devol and his partner Joseph Engelberger formed the world's first robot company. In 1961, the first industrial robot, Unimate, went online in a General Motors automobile factory in ...