Football To Broadway To Wall Street: The Re-Invention Of Eddie George

Eddie George played football for Ohio State University. He won the Heisman trophy. He had a nine year NFL career with the Tennessee Titans, Houston Oilers and Dallas Cowboys. But when his football career ended unexpectedly, he had to find a way to re …
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Fun with flatulence was a Toronto invention

When it comes to practical jokes, the world famous Whoopee Cushion is a gas. Believed to have been invented in Toronto around 1930 by the JEM Rubber Company and sold with the tagline, “It gives forth noises that can be better imagined than described …
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Lemont Students Contribute Along the Way to Teacher’s ‘HatHub’ Invention

Lemont High School teacher Bill Mondrella has taught an entrepreneurship class for many years, and always has stressed to his students that the best products are simple solutions to common problems. Throughout the development of his new product—the …
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Craig Ferguson: What’s the Greatest Invention Since 1950?

Those tiny rubber boots that dogs wear in the rain: just one candidate in our book for the Greatest Invention Since 1950. But don’t let us decide for you. On this episode of HISTORY’s Join or Die with Craig Ferguson, Craig and his guests sit down to …
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Did FDA remove scientist’s name from article and invention in retaliation?

Retaliation against workers in federal agencies takes a variety of forms – dismissal and demotion among the most feared. For Dougbeh Chris Nyan, it was denial. He has accused the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of denying his professional …
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Invention combines pacifier, syringe to give medication to babies

Agnes Scoville, of Kirkwood, is a war veteran and an emergency room doctor, but even she had trouble getting her infant daughter to take medicine. But she had an idea. She drilled a hole through the center of a pacifier and inserted an angiocath — a …
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