You know what they say: “a penny saved is a penny earned,” especially if you can hang onto it for 219 years. In Orland last weekend, a penny minted during the first year of the US Mint’s service, in 1793, sold at auction for $1.38 million. According to James Halperin, of Heritage Auction, the sale […]
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Samuel Morse may have come long before the invention of the Internet, but that didn’t stop him from trying to patent the basic idea behind it, reports The Wall Street Journal. This would have been a patent for all uses of the telegraph—and would also have included the Internet. The 19th-century justices refused to block
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Inventing is a wonderful pastime, unless your invention also ends your life. Business Insider has pulled together a list of ten inventors and their inventions that killed them. Here are five of those stories. Winstanley – 1703 – Eddystone Lighthouse During the Great Storm of 1703, he and five others perished when they refused to
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Don’t you wish your product has this kind of “history” (even if it is fictional): In early 1849, Joshua Shelby was working as a cook in a fancy St. Louis restaurant. The hottest topic among the patrons there was the rivers of gold that had been found out in California. These seemingly easy pickins stoked
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Wine wasn’t always stored in glass bottles. Wine was originally stored in terracotta containers called amphorae. During the Roman Empire, glass bottles were invented in Syria and wine quickly moved into these lighter and more translucent containers. Corks came later); “as late as the mid-17th century, French vintners did not use cork stoppers, using oil-soaked
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In 1926, Thomas Edison sent a brief letter to one of his employees congratulating him on his ideas but warning him about the road ahead. A transcript of the letter is below: My dear Mr. Emmet:- I want to thank you for your letter of the 23rd, with its enclosure, and at the same time
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You know what they say: “a penny saved is a penny earned,” especially if you can hang onto it for 219 years. In Orland last weekend, a penny minted during the first year of the US Mint’s service, in 1793, sold at auction for $1.38 million. According to James Halperin, of Heritage Auction, the sale
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Rocket Mail, 1931 Before “rocketmail” was the name of a short-lived free e-mail service in the late ’90s, it was an idea propounded by German inventor Professor Oberth, who thought it was a good idea to literally use a high-velocity, ill-aimed projectile to deliver mail from Berlin to New York City. He claimed to be
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When we hear the word “entrepreneur,” we tend to conjure up images of tech magnates or other computer-based startup business owners. However, the process of small business ownership goes back much farther, with roots stemming as far back as the Middle Ages! To see how the field of entrepreneurship has changed throughout history – as
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Ed Herr of Herr Foods estimates that if they currently made potato chips the same way they did back in the 1940s, they’d cost about $25 a bag. In the video below, he describes other ways the potato chip manufacturing process has changed since the company was founded in 1951.
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