To help kid cut down on waste, she invented an eco-friendly lunch bag. It is partly made from recycled plastic bottles. "Kids like it because they can fold it up and put it in their backpacks," said Adrienne. She sells the bags at greenearbag.com. And some of the money goes to ...
DIY India is a much different matter. The chances of having a pleasant day are much slimmer when you have to fend for yourself on every account – will the taxi driver drop us off in the fun part of Chor Bazaar, or will he drop us off in dead lawnmower /trash-eating goat alley? A...
To help kid cut down on waste, she invented an eco-friendly lunch bag. It is partly made from recycled plastic bottles. "Kids like it because they can fold it up and put it in their backpacks," said Adrienne. She sells the bags at greenearbag.com. And some of the money goes to ...
Some may have assumed it was trash. But Miller knew it was from the late 1700s because of the style of stopper. "On handmade bottles [from that time] there is an applied piece of glass just below the opening at the top called a string rim. That's where they tie a cord or wire t...
Mary Anderson, the woman who invented the windshield wiper A Voice for Our Time. Born to Make a Difference. Kids who are changing their world. Teenage Boys Rescue 90-year-old Woman from Raging House Fire. Harvard Law Graduate Who Worked As A Sanitation Employee Creates Fund to Celebrate an...
A Frito-Lay executive is said tohave invented Doritosafter tasting toasted tortillas during a family vacation in Southern California in 1964. The first Doritos hit store shelves in 1966. The original version of the chips was plain, but the now-standard nacho cheese flavor was introduced in 1974...
According to the Hartford Courant, the Moscow mule was invented by John G. Martin of G.F. Heublein Brothers of Hartford, a spirits and food distributor. He named it the Moscow mule because it contains vodka, which actually is associated with Russia, while “mule” is the term for the ...
We loved this packaged meat. Most of the state calls it pork roll. Some people call it "Taylor ham" -- we've managed to keep those people contained to one little part of the state where they think they know everything. Just because you invented the light bulb up there doesn't mean ...
Mary Anderson, the woman who invented the windshield wiper All Girls Science Club Create Portable, Solar-Powered Tent to Help the Homeless Community Strangers Rescue Man from Car Engulfed in Flames. 11-year-old 'Superhero Saves Choking Classmate and Helps Elderly Woman from House Fire on the Sa...
The original Cheetos date back to 1948, and were invented by Frito’s creator C.E. Doolin. In a famous success story, Richard Montanez, a janitor at Frito-Lay, added chili powder to a batch of Cheetos that had accidentally been made without the requisite cheese powder dusting. He pitched...