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The first heart-lung machine was built by physician John Heysham Gibbon in 1937. Gibbon performed the first human open heart operation in 1953.
Jagermeister, is a alcoholic liqueur that was first made in 1935 in Wolfenbuttel, Germany.
According to Sony, "In 1979, an empire in personal portable entertainment was created with the ingenious foresight of Sony Founder and Chief Advisor, the late Masaru Ibuka, and Sony Founder and Honorary Chairman Akio Morita. It began with the invention of the first cassette Walkman TPS-L2 that forever changed the way consumers listen to music.
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, is the person responsible for giving the teddy bear his name.
In 1865, John Batterson Stetson invented and sold his first cowboy hat.
In 1867, Edward Calahan of the American Telegraph Company invented the first stock telegraph printing instrument - the stock ticker.
According to Damien Cave, Salon.com Technology columnist, "Rick Hunt, a San Diego carpenter, invented the Flowbee in the late 1980s after marveling at an industrial vacuum's ability to suck sawdust from his hair." The Flowbee is a do-it-yourself home haircutting invention.
Frater Luca Bartolomes Pacioli is considered the "father of modern accounting."
A German immigrant named Frederick William Rueckheim invented Cracker Jack.
The green plastic garbage/trash bag was invented by Harry Wasyluk of Winnipeg, and by Larry Hanson at the Union Carbide plant in Lindsay, Ontario, in the 1950s.
The first coronary stent was invented by Dominik Wiktor, a Cranford, NJ, engineer, after he underwent open heart surgery in 1984.
Safety 1st, Inc. trademarked the "Baby on Board" logo and words in 1984.
Under the inspired direction of their respective cellarmasters, Frère Jean Oudart and Dom Pierre Pérignon, the abbeys of Saint-Pierre aux Monts de Châlons and Saint-Pierre d’Hautvillers became the birthplace of champagne.
The waffle iron was patented on August 24, 1869, invented by Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York.
In 1851, inventor Richard Dudgeon was granted a patent for a "portable hydraulic press" - the hydraulic jack.
Ross Gardner invented the first foam ear plug in 1972.
Lord William Thomson Kelvin invented the kelvin scale, a temperature scale.
Charles Brady King of Detroit invented the pneumatic hammer (a hammer which is driven by compressed air) in 1890.
In America, barbecue (or BBQ) originated in the late 1800's during Western cattle drives.
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