22 facts across the U.S.
Arkansas native, Ben Pearson, is considered to be the father of modern archery in the United States. Born in 1898 in the…
The first lollipop making machine was built and patented in New Haven, Connecticut in 1908. The candy's name was inspire…
Coca-Cola was invented in May 1886 by Dr. John S. Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. The name "Coca-Cola" was suggested by D…
Sun Valley Resort, which opened in Idaho in 1936, was the first destination ski resort in the United States and the firs…
The first Ferris wheel in history was built for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, designed by bridge eng…
The Chicago River is one of the few rivers in the world to have been permanently reversed. In 1900, city engineers compl…
Elwood Haynes of Kokomo, Indiana built one of the first successful American gasoline-powered automobiles in 1894 and tes…
The world's first electronic digital computer was developed not at MIT or Bell Labs, but in a basement at Iowa State Uni…
Tabasco hot sauce has been made on Avery Island, Louisiana by the McIlhenny family since 1868. Edmund McIlhenny, a banke…
Basketball was invented in Springfield, Massachusetts in December 1891 by a Canadian physical education instructor named…
In 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his brother Will Keith Kellogg accidentally invented cornflakes at the Battle Creek…
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile, but he fundamentally changed who could own one. When Ford introduced the moving…
Both Scotch tape and Post-it Notes were invented at 3M, the manufacturing company headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.…
The ice cream cone was invented at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, though the exact origin is disputed between several…
Kool-Aid was invented in Hastings, Nebraska in 1927 by Edwin Perkins, who had been running a mail-order business selling…
Thomas Edison established his research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey in 1876, describing it as an invention facto…
The first boardwalk in the United States was built in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1870. The idea came from hotel owners…
On December 17, 1903, on a cold and windy beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright made four succe…
The first ambulance service in the United States was established at Commercial Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1865, des…
ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, was built at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia betwee…
Dr Pepper was invented in Waco, Texas in 1885 by a pharmacist named Charles Alderton who worked at Morrison's Old Corner…
The first kindergarten in the United States was established in Watertown, Wisconsin in 1856 by Margarethe Schurz, a Germ…