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 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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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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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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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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If you’ve ever been a bridesmaid or a bride you know one of the biggest obstacles that requires literally an entire team to accomplish, is the simple yet critical act of going to the bathroom. SEE ALSO: Goldfish born without jawbone gets life-changing …
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