{"id":46458,"date":"2025-02-26T01:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T06:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/?p=46458"},"modified":"2025-02-26T01:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T06:34:18","slug":"designers-and-founders-alive-in-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/2025\/02\/designers-and-founders-alive-in-1889\/","title":{"rendered":"Designers and Founders Alive in 1889"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>1889 is the crossroads where the descendants, living persons and ancestors of previous, current and future influencers meet on the chronological timeline of earth\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>It is the year that the founders of cars and stores and the designers of games, clothes and sleds all lived alongside one another.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of those people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wikipedia<\/a> is the source the Catholic Bard quotes directly for all the bio descriptions read in these articles.<\/p>\n<p>This article is part of a series of \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicbard\/2024\/10\/notable-people-alive-in-1889\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Notable People Alive In 1889\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Born in 1800\u2019s\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Lindley\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">William Lindley\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(September 7, 1808\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 May 22, 1900<\/p>\n<p>He was an English engineer who together with his sons designed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Water_supply\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">water<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanitary_sewer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sewerage<\/a>\u00a0systems for over 30 cities across Europe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51310\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51310 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Sewers-of-Prague-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sewers of Prague<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Born in 1810\u2019s<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L._L._Langstroth\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> L. L. Langstroth<\/a><br>\n<\/strong>(December 25, 1810 \u2013 October 6, 1895)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beekeeper\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">apiarist<\/a>, clergyman, and teacher, who has been called the father of American beekeeping. He recognized the concept of bee-space, a minimum distance that bees avoid sealing up. Although not his own discovery, the use of this principle allowed for the use of frames that the bees leave separate and this allowed the use of rectangular frames within the design of what is now called the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Langstroth_hive\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Langstroth hive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51313 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/1540px-Imkerei_THWZ_0000-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Born in 1820\u2019s<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Law_Olmsted\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frederick Law Olmsted<\/a><br>\n(April 26, 1822\u00a0\u2013 August 28, 1903)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Landscape_architect\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">landscape architect<\/a>, journalist,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_criticism\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">social critic<\/a>, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Landscape_architecture\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">landscape architecture<\/a>\u00a0in the United States. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his partner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calvert_Vaux\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Calvert Vaux<\/a>. Olmsted and Vaux\u2019s first project was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Central_Park\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Central Park<\/a>\u00a0in New York City, which led to many other urban park designs. These included\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prospect_Park_(Brooklyn)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Prospect Park<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cadwalader_Park\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cadwalader Park<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trenton,_New_Jersey\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trenton, New Jersey<\/a>; and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forest_Park_(Portland,_Oregon)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Forest Park<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portland,_Oregon\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Portland, Oregon<\/a>. He headed the preeminent landscape architecture and planning consultancy of late 19th century United States, which was carried on and expanded by his sons, Frederick Jr. and John C., under the name <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olmsted_Brothers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Olmsted Brothers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46227 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/330px-Frederick_law_olmstead_1857-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRobert_Knight_(industrialist)%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3g8e4Hdkp-_iT7ucnt-DKC4YczX9LevoI3Dk_cUFdkMCbtQQJMBsffO60_aem_EPEZTsTaICVjU5HIv4_MDw&amp;h=AT1URAKfk5tGl_LJdS7887P0l80taFVg2WVa_QEYBssuakxoTmx-m7ax29YSX0cuxa04cNzXOAAkQvdgtuGFKZYHM_w_B-6mxBzUnPcm_h8ct3dfCTlWF0hGb40jTB0BPfTt86s06aD2y4KiQCoGuaGDvNgTDw&amp;__tn__=R%5d-R&amp;c%5b0%5d=AT3-h1iLhBE6fegiaqYpKzRyMp50mrRQCbluWRqbnoOsJxW2TWNdOXfKIts47EStMxoHR1oa6WqOtlCV-o04gE3uEyfadkaQ2NRJF8RBmlMdPkheqmbMAt6kkD4TR8QyXUoqNsLs38dK5_Z8E9iFErfW2AknrF2SIZv3Qp97HTa0X__43fwDbQ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Knight (industrialist)<\/a><br>\n(January 8, 1826 \u2013\u00a0 November 26, 1912)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_England\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New England<\/a>\u00a0industrialist and philanthropist, who was a partner with his brother\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Knight\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Benjamin Knight<\/a>\u00a0in B. B. &amp; R. Knight and was one of the largest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Textile\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">textile<\/a>\u00a0manufacturers in the world when he died in 1912. He co-founded the clothing brand\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fruit_of_the_Loom\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fruit of the Loom<\/a>, now owned by Warren Buffett\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berkshire_Hathaway\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Berkshire Hathaway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51316 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Fruit_logo.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"150\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Edwards_(entomologist)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Henry Edwards<\/b><\/a><br>\n(August 27, 1827 \u2013 June 9, 1891)<\/p>\n<p>He was an English stage actor, writer and <a title=\"Entomology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entomology\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">entomologist<\/a>\u00a0who gained fame in Australia, San Francisco and New York City for his theatre work.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards was drawn to the theatre early in life, and he appeared in amateur productions in London. After sailing to Australia, Edwards appeared professionally in\u00a0<a title=\"William Shakespeare\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Shakespeare\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shakespearean<\/a>\u00a0plays and light comedies primarily in Melbourne and Sydney. Throughout his childhood in England and his acting career in Australia, he was greatly interested in\u00a0<a title=\"Insect collecting\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Insect_collecting\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">collecting insects<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Museum Victoria\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Museum_Victoria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Museum of Victoria<\/a>\u00a0used the results of his Australian fieldwork as part of the genesis of their collection.<\/p>\n<p>In San Francisco, Edwards was a founding member of the\u00a0<a title=\"Bohemian Club\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bohemian_Club\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bohemian Club<\/a>, and a gathering in Edwards\u2019s honour was the spark which began the club\u2019s traditional summer encampment at the\u00a0<a title=\"Bohemian Grove\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bohemian_Grove\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bohemian Grove<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51319\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51319 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/BohemianClubOwl2-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Metal bas relief owl and inscription on the brick wall at 624 Taylor Street, San Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJames_Leonard_Plimpton%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1RJXo1ko8eJSDrcrW2yI4z8KaSpBS0sBxKQ0LxzqVsMvGEcoOvjzD2EL0_aem_RJ_1WF95WsMdzMz9xUk3qg&amp;h=AT0cobXwtgj5bG6mwN6vjiK3HOehEYuoC028la9C1VyILWfB_wy4jYv4kZRYz6o_MuiYCrp6HKYSw7iqI9XZ_cR63JYwyELs_hmX0yluWFtCcb82QTMZ8elH9Tv5BMdVP5-AT5X_nI0Kg3GTNjzAVI9Qaez9JA&amp;__tn__=R%5d-R&amp;c%5b0%5d=AT3DErTovfa4hIQDHFno35uIiu-0wrotJWD6znroatG3M96PWJJikFPgx0olRBPVvRlKM5WJc7E8nDUEZz5m9qY03OC7Om4o5GptRWrEHcQBbOb5V6de646Ons0GccWxYOu7fxW4WLsAVJKDQ-nelGEN2Vg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>James Leonard Plimpton <\/strong><\/a><strong><br>\n<\/strong><strong>(1828 \u00a0\u2013 1911) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>He was an American\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inventor\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">inventor<\/a>\u00a0who is known for changing the skating world with his patented\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roller_skates\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">roller skates<\/a>\u00a0in 1863. Plimpton\u2019s roller skates were safer and easier to use than the existing versions, his \u201crocker skates\u201d or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quad_skates\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">quad skates<\/a>\u00a0allowed people to steer by simply leaning to the left or the right. He also opened some of the earliest roller skating rinks in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York City<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newport,_Rhode_Island\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Newport, Rhode Island<\/a>. In addition to opening the first, official, roller skating rink he also established the first roller skating club, that included rules of roller skating rink conduct, with how to roller skate lessons, and proficiency tests for skaters to plot their progress.<\/p>\n<p>James Plimpton also invented the Plimpton cabinet bed. He married Harriet Amelia Adams on December 6, 1852.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51067 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/11\/The_Childrens_Museum_of_Indianapolis_-Roller_Skates-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Levi_Strauss\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Levi Strauss<\/a><br>\n( February 26, 1829 \u2013 September 26, 1902)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeans\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blue jeans<\/a>. His firm of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Levi_Strauss_%26_Co.\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Levi Strauss &amp; Co.<\/a>\u00a0(Levi\u2019s) began in 1853 in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">San Francisco<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46263\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46263\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/Jeans-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exif JPEG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Born in 1830\u2019s<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_B._Stetson\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John B. Stetson<\/a><br>\n(May 5, 1830 \u2013 February 18, 1906)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hat_maker\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hat maker<\/a>\u00a0who invented the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cowboy_hat\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cowboy hat<\/a>\u00a0in the 1860s. He founded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_B._Stetson_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John B. Stetson Company<\/a>\u00a0in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1865, and it became one of the largest hat manufacturers in the world. The company\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hat\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hats<\/a>\u00a0are now commonly referred to simply as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stetson\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stetsons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His philanthropy helped fund\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Temple_University\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Temple University<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stetson_University\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stetson University<\/a>, as well as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/YMCA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">YMCA<\/a>\u00a0and a homeless shelter\/soup kitchen in Philadelphia. His mansion, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_B._Stetson_House\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John B. Stetson House<\/a>, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DeLand,_Florida\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">DeLand, Florida<\/a>, was placed on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Register_of_Historic_Places\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Register of Historic Places<\/a>\u00a0in 1978.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51322 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Stetson_-_First_choice_of_the_man_on_the_way_up_1956-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_of_Henry_H._Bliss\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Death of Henry H. Bliss\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(June 13, 1830 \u2013 September 14, 1899)<\/p>\n<p>He was the guy who was the first recorded instance of a person being killed in a <a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Motor vehicle collision\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motor_vehicle_collision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">motor vehicle collision<\/a>\u00a0in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51325 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Henry_hale_bliss_1873-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Pullman\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>George Pullman<\/strong><\/a><br>\n(March 3, 1831 \u2013 October 19, 1897)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pullman_(car_or_coach)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pullman sleeping car<\/a>\u00a0and founded a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pullman,_Chicago\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">company town in Chicago<\/a>\u00a0for the workers who manufactured it. This ultimately led to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pullman_Strike\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pullman Strike<\/a>\u00a0due to the high rent prices charged for company housing and low wages paid by the Pullman Company. His Pullman Company also hired black men to staff the Pullman cars, known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pullman_porter\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pullman porters<\/a>, who provided elite service and were compensated only in tips.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46269 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/1520px-Pullman_car_exterior-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susan_Catherine_Koerner_Wright\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Susan Catherine Koerner Wright \u2013<\/a><br>\n(April 30, 1831 \u2013 July 4, 1889)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She was the mother of aviation pioneers\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Wilbur and Orville Wright\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilbur_and_Orville_Wright\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wilbur and Orville Wright<\/a>, and wife of\u00a0<a title=\"Milton Wright (bishop)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milton_Wright_(bishop)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Milton Wright<\/a>. She gave birth to seven children, and fostered in them an interest in carpentry and mechanics with her deep skills in those areas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44094 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/Susan-Wright-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D._H._%26_A._B._Tower\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0\u00a0Tower Brothers<\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Doing business as\u00a0<strong>D. H. &amp; A. B. Tower<\/strong>, brothers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>David Horatio Tower<\/strong>\u00a0(March 7, 1832 \u2013 December 22, 1907)<br>\nand\u00a0<strong>Ashley Bemis Tower<\/strong>\u00a0(June 26, 1847 \u2013 July 8, 1901)<\/p>\n<p>were internationally known American\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Architects\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">architects<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_engineering\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">civil<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mechanical_engineers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mechanical engineers<\/a>\u00a0based in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holyoke,_Massachusetts\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Holyoke, Massachusetts<\/a>, who designed mills and factories in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">United States<\/a>\u00a0from Maine to California as well as abroad, including in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Canada<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mexico<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Germany<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brazil<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">United Kingdom<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">India<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">China<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Japan<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Australia<\/a>. By the time of its dissolution, the firm was described by one contemporary account as \u201cthe largest firm of paper mill architects in the country at that time\u201d;\u00a0its files reportedly contained more than 8,000 architectural plans for sites, mill machinery, and waterpower improvements.<\/p>\n<p>In a treatise on his own work in mill engineering, Joseph Wallace, former partner to Ashley B. Tower, lauded their work posthumously saying \u201cthe history of paper mill engineering is largely the story of the work of the \u2018Towers of Holyoke,\u2019 followed by the younger generation of engineers trained in the Tower offices. \u00a0Their most famous works include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kimberly_Clark\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kimberly Clark<\/a>\u2018s earliest pulp plants in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kimberly,_Wisconsin\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kimberly, Wisconsin<\/a>\u00a0for which Ashley B. Tower furnished designs, \u00a0and David H. Tower\u2019s designs for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crane_Currency\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Crane Currency<\/a>, of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dalton,_Massachusetts\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dalton, Massachusetts<\/a>, for the first facilities to produce currency paper for the United States\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bureau_of_Engraving_and_Printing\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bureau of Engraving and Printing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51328\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51328\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/320px-Draughting_Room_Corner-300x260.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Draftsmen in the Tower offices, circa 1892<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gustave_Eiffel\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gustave Eiffel<\/a><br>\n(b.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1832\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1832<\/a>) 1923)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was a French <a title=\"Civil engineer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_engineer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">civil engineer<\/a>. A graduate of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"\u00c9cole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89cole_Centrale_des_Arts_et_Manufactures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00c9cole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures<\/a>, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Garabit Viaduct\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garabit_Viaduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Garabit Viaduct<\/a>. He is best known for the world-famous\u00a0<a title=\"Eiffel Tower\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eiffel_Tower\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eiffel Tower<\/a>, designed by his company and built for the\u00a0<a title=\"Exposition Universelle (1889)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exposition_Universelle_(1889)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1889 Universal Exposition<\/a>\u00a0in Paris, and his contribution to building the\u00a0<a title=\"Statue of Liberty\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Statue_of_Liberty\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Statue of Liberty<\/a>\u00a0in New York. After his retirement from engineering, Eiffel focused on research into\u00a0<a title=\"Meteorology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meteorology\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">meteorology<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Aerodynamics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aerodynamics\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">aerodynamics<\/a>, making significant contributions in both fields.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43836 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/Gustave_Eiffel_1888_Nadar2-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samepassage.org\/matthew-a-cherry\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matthew A. Cherry <\/a><br>\n(February 5, 1834 \u2013 January 1, 1895?)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He is \u00a0the inventor of the tricycle. In May 1888, Cherry received his patent for the tricycle. Even today, tricycles are the choice of transportation for many as opposed to bicycles, because of their increased safety and carrying capacity. Matthew Cherry seems to have disappeared from the public record.\u00a0 There is no information available on him after January 1, 1895, the date he received the patent for the streetcar fender.\u00a0 He was 61 at that time. <a href=\"https:\/\/samepassage.org\/matthew-a-cherry\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matthew A. Cherry \u2013 SamePassage<\/a><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/7e\/Abraham_M._Mangouney._Joyce_-_DPLA_-_1781271c39fee36e38c33f5e8544e2e7.jpg\" alt=\"Girl with ringlets and a white dress riding a delta tricycle.\" width=\"230\" height=\"286\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gottlieb_Daimler\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gottlieb Daimler<\/a><br>\n<\/strong>(March 17, 1834 \u2013March 6, 1900)<\/p>\n<p>He was a German <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Engineer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">engineer<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industrial_design\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">industrial designer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industrialist\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">industrialist<\/a>\u00a0born in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schorndorf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Schorndorf<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kingdom of W\u00fcrttemberg<\/a>, a federal state of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_Confederation\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">German Confederation<\/a>), in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internal-combustion_engine\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">internal-combustion engines<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automobile\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">automobile<\/a> development. He invented the high-speed liquid petroleum-fueled engine. He founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daimler_Motoren_Gesellschaft\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft<\/a> along with \u00a0<a title=\"Wilhelm Maybach\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilhelm_Maybach\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wilhelm Maybach<\/a> (1846\u20131929).\u00a0 In 1885 they designed a vertical cylinder version of this engine which they subsequently fitted to a two-wheeler, the first\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Internal combustion\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internal_combustion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">internal combustion<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Motorcycle\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motorcycle\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">motorcycle<\/a>\u00a0which was named the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Reitwagen\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reitwagen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Petroleum Reitwagen<\/a>\u00a0(Riding Car) and, in the next year, to a\u00a0<a title=\"Coach (carriage)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coach_(carriage)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">coach<\/a>, and a boat. Daimler called this engine the grandfather clock engine (<i>Standuhr<\/i>) because of its resemblance to a large pendulum clock.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51094\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51094\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/11\/220px-ZweiRadMuseumNSU_Reitwagen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"146\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Reitwagen (riding car), the first internal combustion motorcycle (1885)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Smith_Hallidie\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Andrew Smith Hallidie<\/a><br>\n<\/strong>(March 16, 1836 \u2013 April 24, 1900)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American entrepreneur who was the promoter of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clay_Street_Hill_Railroad\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Clay Street Hill Railroad<\/a>\u00a0in San Francisco. This was the world\u2019s first practical\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cable_car_(railway)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cable car<\/a>\u00a0system, and Hallidie is often therefore regarded as the inventor of the cable car and father of the present day\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco_cable_car_system\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">San Francisco cable car system<\/a>, although both claims are open to dispute. He also introduced the manufacture of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wire_rope\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wire rope<\/a>\u00a0to California, and at an early age was a prolific builder of bridges in the Californian interior.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51331\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51331 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Cable_car_19_on_Hyde_Street_July_2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cable car on Hyde Street in 2023, with Alcatraz Island and Fisherman\u2019s Wharf in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giuseppe_Borsalino\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Giuseppe Borsalino\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(September\u00a015,\u00a01834\u00a0\u2013\u00a0April\u00a01, 1900)<\/p>\n<p>He was an <a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italia\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Italian<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artigiano\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">craftsman<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imprenditore\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">entrepreneur<\/a>, on April 4,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1857\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1857<\/a>\u00a0he founded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borsalino\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Borsalino Giuseppe e Fratello<\/a>\u00a0factory in Alessandria. In addition to being a great and innovative entrepreneur<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giuseppe_Borsalino#cite_note-2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">,<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Giuseppe Borsalino was a skilled craftsman: he was responsible for the creation of the iconic model of men\u2019s felt hat distinguished by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borsalino_(copricapo)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Borsalino<\/a> brand.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51334\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51334\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/220px-Borsalino_fedora.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The iconic hat created by Giuseppe Borsalino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milton_Bradley\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Milton Bradley<\/a><br>\n(November 8, 1836 \u2013 May 30, 1911)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American business magnate, game pioneer and publisher, credited by many with launching the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Board_game\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">board game<\/a>\u00a0industry, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milton_Bradley_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">his eponymous enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From 1860 through the 20th century, the company he founded,\u00a0<a title=\"Milton Bradley Company\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milton_Bradley_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Milton Bradley Company<\/a>, dominated the production of American games, including\u00a0<i><a title=\"The Game of Life\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Game_of_Life\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Game of Life<\/a><\/i>,\u00a0<i><a title=\"Easy Money (board game)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Easy_Money_(board_game)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Easy Money<\/a><\/i>,\u00a0<i><a title=\"Candy Land\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Candy_Land\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Candy Land<\/a><\/i>,\u00a0<i><a title=\"Operation (game)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_(game)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Operation<\/a><\/i>, and\u00a0<i><a title=\"Battleship (game)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battleship_(game)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Battleship<\/a><\/i>. The company was a subsidiary of\u00a0<a title=\"Pawtucket, Rhode Island\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pawtucket,_Rhode_Island\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pawtucket, Rhode Island<\/a>\u2013based firm\u00a0<a title=\"Hasbro\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hasbro\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hasbro<\/a>\u00a0from acquisition in 1984 to shutdown in 1998. MB merged with\u00a0<a title=\"Parker Brothers\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parker_Brothers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Parker Brothers<\/a>\u00a0in 1998 to form Hasbro Games. The two became brands of Hasbro until 2009 when they were retired in favor of the parent company\u2019s name; the Milton Bradley name had been in use for 149 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46290 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/Checkered_game_of_life_mb_cover-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_S._Bickmore\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Albert S. Bickmore<\/a><br>\n(March 1, 1839 \u2013 August 12, 1914)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American naturalist and originator of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Museum_of_Natural_History\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">American Museum of Natural History<\/a>\u00a0in New York City, becoming one of its founders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51337\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51337\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/USA-NYC-American_Museum_of_Natural_History-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facade of the east entrance from Central Park West<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Born in 1840\u2019s<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Grant_Roberts\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mary Grant Roberts<\/a>\u00a0<b><br>\n<\/b>\u00a0(April 15, 1841 \u2013 November 27, 1921)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She was an Australian zoo owner. Roberts owned <a title=\"Hobart Zoo\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hobart_Zoo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hobart Zoo<\/a> from when it opened in 1895 until her death in 1921. The zoo was closed in 1937. The Hobart Zoo is most famous as the place where footage of the\u00a0<a title=\"Endling\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endling\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">last known<\/a>\u00a0living\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Tasmanian tiger\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tasmanian_tiger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tasmanian tiger<\/a>\u00a0(thylacine) was taken in 1936. It died in captivity of exposure, due to suspected neglect after being locked out of its sleeping enclosure on 7 September 1936. National Threatened Species Day has been held annually since 1996 on 7 September in Australia, to commemorate the death of the last officially recorded thylacine<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51343\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51343\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Tasmanian_tiger-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two male Thylacines at the Hobart Zoo in 1911 (the adult male is larger than the juvenile male in front)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Leeds_Allen\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Samuel Leeds Allen\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(May 5, 1841 \u2013 March 28, 1918)<\/p>\n<p>He was the founder of S.L. Allen &amp; Company in Philadelphia. He was the inventor of, and his company manufactured, both the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flexible_Flyer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Flexible Flyer<\/a> sled and Planet Jr farm and garden equipment. For over one hundred years these products were the best selling and most famous market gardening tools and American sleds. During his lifetime and for the first half of the 20th century S.L. Allen was far more renowned for his company\u2019s seed drills and cultivating equipment than the sleds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51346 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/220px-The_Childrens_Museum_of_Indianapolis_-_Sled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Harbutt\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">William Harbutt<\/a><br>\n(February 13, 1844 \u2013 1 June 1, 1921)<\/p>\n<p>Harbutt invented the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modelling_clay\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">modeling paste<\/a> \u00a0<a title=\"Plasticine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plasticine\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Plasticine<\/a>\u00a0around 1897 as a non-drying modelling clay for use by his students. In 1899, Harbutt was awarded a\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Trade mark\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trade_mark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">trade mark<\/a>, and in 1900, a factory was set up at nearby\u00a0<a title=\"Bathampton\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bathampton\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bathampton<\/a> to manufacture the product for commercial sale. Harbutt travelled widely to promote the product, and his theories about the teaching of art by allowing children free expression. While William is seen as the inventor in England over in Germany German pharmacist <a style=\"text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franz_Kolb\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Franz Kolb\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"text-align: center;\">(<\/span><a style=\"text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Floruit\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fl.<\/a><span style=\"text-align: center;\"> 1880s) is seen as the inventor of what is pronounced\u00a0 <\/span>Plastilin. \u00a0Because of different\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patent\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">patent<\/a>\u00a0rights in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Germany<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">England<\/a> there are different views about who actually invented plasticine.\u00a0 Kolb\u2019s German patent is from 1880 while Harbutt\u2019s English one is from 1897. The exact formulation of the two products is different.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51349 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Little_girl_holding_plasticine._49810941302-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCarl_Hagenbeck%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2P9uOb0xvD00HswPz3_cTAgAxFbROYmheQsgFqagiz4qLDacA-sXq-ho8_aem_ySt9rTFi9xHN0PgoVqYgnQ&amp;h=AT1kVL9oOC2eExepr6Cck8M087HMa2A-p24y3KkHovBsgAuCzsxPAd66UR7ArmP1dLq9QUvUwssJUEXMdTtEKIUQRQoaBJ0cWkHyQGu_2N2FYAVXl2ONlKqpT_ti4BwO_jGtxvQp9MQt_LLizfNTk9lfBIv7-g&amp;__tn__=R%5d-R&amp;c%5b0%5d=AT1UAJxZfQFh8IfykWTpyz7QQl7L5w5e3S9HYH9Xt521sg3ILsWjSINe5CnMk7YxG4YS-zhbAWC9wN4K383LB0AvTB0IK7ecL8hniWOV7G_p3RoYlc4CaVAfQaCXT-j26hCp9rath63E1HWBd271NXJto-q3TzLkZ5Q3wLJdx9kj-zh0gzYjM24FtB-4i8O8bw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Carl Hagenbeck<\/a><br>\n(June 10, 1844 \u2013\u00a0 April 14, 1913)<\/p>\n<p>He was a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germans\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">German<\/a>\u00a0merchant of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wild_animal\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wild animals<\/a>\u00a0who supplied many European\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">zoos<\/a>, as well as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P._T._Barnum\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">P. T. Barnum<\/a>.\u00a0He created the modern\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">zoo<\/a>\u00a0with animal enclosures without bars that were closer to their natural habitat.\u00a0 \u00a0He was also an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethnographic\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ethnography<\/a>\u00a0showman and a pioneer in the display of members of \u201csavage tribes\u201d in\u00a0<em>V\u00f6lkerschauen<\/em>, known nowadays in English as \u201cethnic shows\u201d or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_zoo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">human zoos<\/a>\u201c,\u00a0which were controversial at the time and are now widely considered racist. The transformation of the zoo architecture initiated by him is known as the\u00a0<strong>Hagenbeck revolution<\/strong>. \u00a0Hagenbeck founded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Germany<\/a>\u2018s most successful privately owned zoo, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tierpark_Hagenbeck\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tierpark Hagenbeck<\/a>, which moved to its present location in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamburg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hamburg<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stellingen\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stellingen<\/a>\u00a0district in 1907.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51352\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51352\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Carl_Hagenbeck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"153\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hagenbeck with his lions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Benz?fbclid=IwY2xjawFkONBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHdQSp--BPoCCT_yHl1t7Qxbky-A9yzlDzUa4XE0Si-pc_qGWawFicXTN1A_aem_hg7ehF5sewPQFRpr0Rb7lQ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Carl Benz<\/a><br>\n(November 25, 1844 \u2013 4 April 1929)<\/p>\n<p>He was a German engine designer and automotive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Engineer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">engineer<\/a>. His\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Benz Patent-Motorwagen<\/a>\u00a0from 1885 is considered the first practical modern\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automobile\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">automobile<\/a>\u00a0and first car put into series production. \u00a0He received a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patent\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">patent<\/a>\u00a0for the motorcar in 1886, the same year he first publicly drove the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.<\/p>\n<p>His company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benz_%26_Cie.\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Benz &amp; Cie.<\/a>, based in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mannheim\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mannheim<\/a>, was the world\u2019s first automobile plant and largest of its day.\u00a0In 1926, it merged with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daimler_Motoren_Gesellschaft\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft<\/a>\u00a0to form\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daimler-Benz\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daimler-Benz<\/a>, which produces the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercedes-Benz\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a>\u00a0among other brands.<\/p>\n<p>Benz is widely regarded as \u201cthe father of the car\u201d, as well as the \u201cfather of the automobile industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51358\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51358\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/1885Benz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"197\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isidor_Straus\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Isidor Straus<\/b><\/a><br>\n(February 6, 1845 \u2013 April 15, 1912)<\/p>\n<p>He was a Bavarian-born American businessman, politician and co-owner of <a title=\"Macy's\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macy%27s\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Macy\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0department store with his brother\u00a0<a title=\"Nathan Straus\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathan_Straus\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nathan<\/a>. He also served for just over a year as a member of the\u00a0<a title=\"United States House of Representatives\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_House_of_Representatives\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">United States House of Representatives<\/a>, representing the state of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"New York State\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_State\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York<\/a>. \u00a0He died with his wife,\u00a0<a title=\"Ida Straus\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ida_Straus\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ida<\/a> (February 6, 1849 \u2013 April 15, 1912), in the\u00a0<a title=\"Sinking of the Titanic\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sinking_of_the_Titanic\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sinking of the\u00a0<i>Titanic<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51361 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/440px-Isidor_Straus_1903-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bertha_Benz\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bertha Benz\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(May 3, 1849 \u2013 May 5, 1944)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She was a German automotive pioneer. She was the business partner, investor and wife of automobile inventor <a title=\"Carl Benz\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Benz\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Carl Benz<\/a>. On 5 August 1888, she was the first person to drive an\u00a0<a title=\"Internal combustion engine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internal_combustion_engine\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">internal-combustion-engined<\/a>\u00a0automobile over a long distance, field testing the\u00a0<a title=\"Benz Patent-Motorwagen\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Benz Patent-Motorwagen<\/a>, inventing\u00a0<a title=\"Brake lining\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brake_lining\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">brake lining<\/a> and solving several practical issues during the journey of 105\u00a0km (65 miles).\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-long_trip_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>In doing so, she brought the Patent-Motorwagen worldwide attention and got their company its first sales. Bertha Benz was not allowed to study in the\u00a0<a title=\"Grand Duchy of Baden\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Duchy_of_Baden\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Grand Duchy of Baden<\/a>, and her financial and practical engineering contributions have long been overlooked until the 21st century.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51364\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51364 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/500px-Berthabenzportrait-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bertha Ringer, c.\u20091871, prior to her marriage to Carl Benz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Burnham\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daniel Burnham\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(September 4, 1846 \u2013 June 1, 1912)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American <a title=\"Architect\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Architect\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">architect<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Urban designer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Urban_designer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">urban designer<\/a>. A proponent of the\u00a0<i><a title=\"Beaux-Arts architecture\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beaux-Arts_architecture\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Beaux-Arts<\/a><\/i>\u00a0movement, he may have been \u201cthe most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced.<\/p>\n<p>A successful\u00a0<a title=\"Chicago\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chicago<\/a>\u00a0architect, he was selected as Director of Works for the 1892\u201393\u00a0<a title=\"World's Columbian Exposition\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">World\u2019s Columbian Exposition<\/a>, colloquially referred to as \u201cThe White City\u201d. He had prominent roles in the creation of master plans for the development of a number of cities, including the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Plan of Chicago\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plan_of_Chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Plan of Chicago<\/a>, and plans for\u00a0<a title=\"Manila\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manila\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Manila<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Baguio\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baguio\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Baguio<\/a>\u00a0and downtown\u00a0<a title=\"Washington, D.C.\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>\u00a0He also designed several famous buildings, including a number of notable skyscrapers in Chicago, the\u00a0<a title=\"Flatiron Building\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flatiron_Building\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Flatiron Building<\/a>\u00a0of triangular shape in New York City,<sup id=\"cite_ref-Laurin_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Burnham#cite_note-Laurin-2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"cite-bracket\">[<\/span>2<span class=\"cite-bracket\">]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0<a title=\"Washington Union Station\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_Union_Station\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Washington Union Station<\/a>\u00a0in Washington D.C., London\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"Selfridges, Oxford Street\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Selfridges,_Oxford_Street\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Selfridges<\/a>\u00a0department store, and San Francisco\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"Merchants Exchange Building (San Francisco)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merchants_Exchange_Building_(San_Francisco)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Merchants Exchange<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although best known for his skyscrapers, city planning, and for the White City, almost one third of Burnham\u2019s total output \u2013 14.7\u00a0million square feet (1.37\u00a0million square metres) \u2013 consisted of buildings for shopping.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43989 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/Daniel_Hudson_Burnham-209x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"x1yztbdb x1n2onr6 xh8yej3 x1ja2u2z\">\n<div class=\"x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z\">\n<div class=\"x1a2a7pz\" aria-posinset=\"1\" aria-describedby=\":ra6: :ra7: :ra8: :raa: :ra9:\" aria-labelledby=\":ra5:\">\n<div class=\"x78zum5 xdt5ytf\" data-virtualized=\"false\">\n<div class=\"x9f619 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data-href=\"\/memorial\/22042651\/samuel_w_walton\">\n<div class=\"flex-grow-1 ms-2\">\n<p>Samuel W. Walton (<span id=\"familyBirthLabel\">1846<\/span>\u2013<span id=\"familyDeathLabel\">1894)<br>\n<\/span>+ Clara Etta <i>Layton<\/i> Walton (<span id=\"familyBirthLabel\">1865<\/span>\u2013<span id=\"familyDeathLabel\">1894)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"xwya9rg x11i5rnm x1e56ztr x1mh8g0r xh8yej3\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"xq8finb x16n37ib\">\n<div class=\"x9f619 x1ja2u2z x78zum5 x2lah0s x1n2onr6 x1qughib x1qjc9v5 xozqiw3 x1q0g3np x150jy0e x1e558r4 xjkvuk6 x1iorvi4 xwrv7xz x8182xy x4cne27 xifccgj\">\n<div class=\"x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z x78zum5 xdt5ytf x193iq5w xeuugli x1r8uery x1iyjqo2 xs83m0k xg83lxy x1h0ha7o x10b6aqq x1yrsyyn\">\n<div class=\"x1i10hfl x1qjc9v5 xjbqb8w xjqpnuy xa49m3k xqeqjp1 x2hbi6w x13fuv20 xu3j5b3 x1q0q8m5 x26u7qi x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xdl72j9 x2lah0s xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x2lwn1j xeuugli xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1n2onr6 x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg x1ja2u2z x1t137rt x1o1ewxj x3x9cwd x1e5q0jg x13rtm0m x3nfvp2 x1q0g3np x87ps6o x1lku1pv x1a2a7pz x5ve5x3\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Like\">\n<div class=\"x9f619 x1ja2u2z x78zum5 x1n2onr6 x1r8uery x1iyjqo2 xs83m0k xeuugli xl56j7k x6s0dn4 xozqiw3 x1q0g3np xn6708d x1ye3gou xexx8yu xcud41i x139jcc6 x4cne27 xifccgj xn3w4p2 xuxw1ft\">\n<div class=\"x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z x78zum5 xdt5ytf x2lah0s x193iq5w xeuugli x150jy0e x1e558r4 x10b6aqq x1yrsyyn\">= <a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz x1ey2m1c xds687c x17qophe x10l6tqk x13vifvy xi2jdih decorated-link\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fmemorial%2F51136028%2Fthomas_gibson_walton%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR06stXmAsTOaLLT3lMlIg0fRmn94L2cqP6lSWIZ4DaS_xEyE-BD5hOl7-4_aem_C1eooNsmAiM2xdGpYH1xqA&amp;h=AT1izioqDVWUA1Kzqa83LgSRhZyO0GLIrfprkbaLGELeLfspLaykk3PyHdb3hdSfxpYXD22JrYgyqDgKZiwXq9W5CyVB3Gu-jJlpHWoAtCz5c6tkp3iZDU-gDoyacChdyRrrp3uN91W8kePKHVTwaSA0MhrUAg&amp;__tn__=R%5D-R&amp;c%5B0%5D=AT2SSnzHWCRpJNG9_G6l_RLX8pFI9Ygle0XBBN0RkoI7NBCzfvlQNTINsJ4-bufVonRTvv6XMH2e1g6BmahJhIY-Y65oUX9SI-66QEd8gdbXmHUS30fBDZCgcIC8kQdS_UHht6lEGyXbYH-afLwQCgZ4ptGpQ8o07W71U_CXUx1JJXjt4oeltA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xzpqnlu x1hyvwdk xjm9jq1 x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x10l6tqk x1i1rx1s\" data-html2canvas-ignore=\"true\">Thomas Gibson Walton <\/span><\/a><span class=\"xzpqnlu x1hyvwdk xjm9jq1 x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x10l6tqk x1i1rx1s\" data-html2canvas-ignore=\"true\">(1892-1984)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"html-div xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x18d9i69 x1swvt13 x1pi30zi x1n2onr6\">\n<div class=\"html-div x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1gslohp\">\n<div class=\"x169t7cy x19f6ikt\">\n<div class=\"x1n2onr6 x1swvt13 x1iorvi4 x78zum5 x1q0g3np x1a2a7pz\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"article\" aria-label=\"Comment by Mark Wilson 11 hours ago\">\n<div class=\"x1r8uery x1iyjqo2 x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1pi30zi\">\n<div class=\"x78zum5 xv55zj0 x1vvkbs\">\n<div class=\"x1rg5ohu xr9ek0c x1n2onr6\" data-ft=\"{}\">\n<div class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz x1heor9g x1sur9pj xkrqix3 x1s688f\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Show more information about Thomas Gibson Walton (1892-1984) - Find a Grave...\">\n<div class=\"x6s0dn4 x1jx94hy x1exxf4d x1y71gwh x1nb4dca xu1343h xhw592a xwihvcr x7wuybg xb9tvrk x13fuv20 xu3j5b3 x1q0q8m5 x26u7qi x178xt8z xm81vs4 xso031l xy80clv xzsf02u x78zum5 x1fgtraw xl56j7k xgd8bvy\">+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/51136029\/nancy_lee_walton\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nancy Lee \u201cNan \u2013 Nannie\u201d Lawrence Walton <\/a>(1898-1950)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"html-div xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd\" style=\"text-align: center;\">= <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_Walton\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sam Walton\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">(March 29, 1918 \u2013 April 5, 1992)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He was an American business magnate best known for founding the retailers <a title=\"Walmart\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walmart\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Walmart<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Sam's Club\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam%27s_Club\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sam\u2019s Club<\/a>, which he started in\u00a0<a title=\"Rogers, Arkansas\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rogers,_Arkansas\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rogers, Arkansas<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Midwest City, Oklahoma\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midwest_City,_Oklahoma\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Midwest City, Oklahoma<\/a> in 1962 and 1983 respectively. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. grew to be the world\u2019s largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51367\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51367\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/President_George_H._W._Bush_and_Sam_Walton-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walton (right) and President George H. W. Bush (left) in March 1992; Sam Walton died 18 days after this photo was taken.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Frederick_Schoenhut#:~:text=Albert%20Frederick%20Schoenhut%20(1849-1912)%20created%20the%20A.%20Schoenhut%20Company,%20one\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Albert Frederick Schoenhut\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<b><br>\n<\/b>(1849-1912)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He created the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A._Schoenhut_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A. Schoenhut Company<\/a>, one of the leading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toy\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">toy<\/a>\u00a0producers in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/America\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">America<\/a> at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1872, he founded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schoenhut_Piano_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Schoenhut Piano Company<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philadelphia\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Philadelphia<\/a>, which later became known as the A. Schoenhut Company and was incorporated in 1897. They established a reputation, based on German handicraft traditions, and created toy pianos and other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Musical_instruments\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">musical instruments<\/a> in the early days. Eventually, they introduced dolls, play sets, games and more and they became the largest toy manufacturer in America. In 1919, Schoenhut <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patented\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">patented<\/a>\u00a0his \u201cAll-Wood Perfection Art Doll\u201d and in 1997, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Postal_Service\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">United States Postal Service<\/a> issued stamps of Classic American Dolls and included his wooden dolls as part of the collection.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51370\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51370\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Schoenhut_Company_Philadelphia_History_Museum_11-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fourteen-key Schoenhut metallic piano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freelan_Oscar_Stanley\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Freelan Oscar Stanley <\/a><br>\n(June 1, 1849 \u2013 October 2, 1940)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American inventor, entrepreneur, hotelier, and architect. He made his fortune in the manufacture of photographic plates but is best remembered as the co-founder, with his brother\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Edgar_Stanley\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Francis Edgar Stanley<\/a>, of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Motor_Carriage_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stanley Motor Carriage Company<\/a>\u00a0which built steam-powered automobiles until 1920. He also built and operated the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Hotel\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stanley Hotel<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Estes_Park,_Colorado\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Estes Park, Colorado<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51373\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51373\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Driving_to_top_of_Mt_Washington_1899-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">F. O. Stanley and his wife Flora drove to the top of Mount Washington in New Hampshire to generate publicity for their firm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_David_Lee?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0ytCZ1sDsloR2wzwM0u5R35OD124DphsOb08dea9SfhdkVgLJdb3qhl5U_aem_8o0IEs2PLOw4fg1MmHkkyw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Harry David Lee\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(December 9, 1849 \u2013 March 15, 1928)<\/p>\n<p>He was the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=HD_Lee_Mercantile_Company&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">HD Lee Mercantile Company<\/a>, inventors of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee_(Jeans)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lee Jeans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51376 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Lee_jeans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Born in 1850\u2019s<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Wesley_Hanes_I\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>John Wesley Hanes I <\/strong><\/a><strong><br>\n<\/strong>(February 3, 1850 \u2013 September 23, 1903)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was an American businessman from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Winston-Salem, North Carolina<\/a>\u00a0who ran a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tobacco\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">tobacco<\/a>\u00a0company before founding Shamrock Mills in 1901, the company that became\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanes\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hanes Hosiery Mills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hanes\u00a0(founded in 1900) and\u00a0Hanes Her Way\u00a0(founded in 1985) is a brand of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clothing\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">clothing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51388 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Hanes-logo.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"132\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Winfield_Woolworth?fbclid=IwY2xjawFkOfFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfqBysjg_Xnw9MlNvlbqmpvH8fbjHefDR-bCIRYAuSJ8sgF07jO0iADopA_aem_Df-FErR6B0KX-jKHg0ApTw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frank Winfield Woolworth<\/a><br>\n(April 13, 1852 \u2013 April 8, 1919)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American entrepreneur, the founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F._W._Woolworth_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">F. W. Woolworth Company<\/a>, and the operator of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Variety_store\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">variety stores<\/a>\u00a0known as \u201cFive-and-Dimes\u201d (5- and 10-cent stores or dime stores) which featured a selection of low-priced merchandise. He pioneered the now-common practices of buying merchandise directly from manufacturers and fixing the selling prices on items, rather than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haggling\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">haggling<\/a>. He was also the first to use self-service\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Display_case\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">display cases<\/a>, so that customers could examine what they wanted to buy without the help of a sales clerk.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51391\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51391\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Architectural_details_the_Woolworth_Building_New_York_New_York_LCCN2013650652.tif_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"209\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woolworth memorialized in an architectural detail of the Woolworth Building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emil_Jellinek\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Emil Jellinek\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(April 6, 1853 \u2013 January 21, 1918)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was an automobile entrepreneur of the <a title=\"Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daimler_Motoren_Gesellschaft\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft<\/a>\u00a0(DMG), responsible in 1900 for commissioning the first modern automobile, the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Mercedes 35hp\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercedes_35hp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mercedes 35hp<\/a>. Jellinek created the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Mercedes (marque)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercedes_(marque)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mercedes trademark<\/a>\u00a0in 1902, naming it in honor of his daughter,\u00a0<a title=\"Merc\u00e9d\u00e8s Jellinek\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merc%C3%A9d%C3%A8s_Jellinek\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Merc\u00e9d\u00e8s Jellinek<\/a>. The trademark developed into the company\u00a0<a title=\"Mercedes-Benz\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercedes-Benz\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a>, and the marque became one of the largest car brands in the world. Jellinek lived in\u00a0<a title=\"Vienna\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vienna\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vienna<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Austria\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austria\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Austria<\/a>, then later moved to\u00a0<a title=\"Nice\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nice\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nice<\/a>, on the\u00a0<a title=\"French Riviera\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_Riviera\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">French Riviera<\/a>, where he was\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"General Consul\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Consul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">General Consul<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"Austria-Hungary\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austria-Hungary\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Austria-Hungary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51385\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51385\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Emil_and_mercedes_jellinek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"229\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jellinek with his daughter Mercedes, whose name he also gave to the Mercedes automobile brand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Kemp_Starley?fbclid=IwY2xjawFlir5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHV4VLUFd48EB5wcdiEBuKKtNii0Ufp6nMDO_hdWeE4U6KhA0BbNktk9epA_aem_NWXBSXu--mUC23HEegLZaw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Kemp Starley <\/a><br>\n(December 24, 1855 \u2013October 29, 1901)<\/p>\n<p>He was an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">English<\/a>\u00a0inventor and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industrialist\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">industrialist<\/a>\u00a0who is widely considered the inventor of the modern\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Safety_bicycle\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">safety bicycle<\/a>, and also originator of the tradename <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rover_(car)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rover<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51154\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51154\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/11\/1886_Starley_Rover_Safety_Cycle_British_Motor_Museum_09-2016_29928044262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1886 Rover safety bicycle at the British Motor Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Hale_Williams\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daniel Hale Williams\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(January 18, 1856 <sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u2013 August 4, 1931)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was an American surgeon and hospital founder. A <a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Black American\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_American\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Black American<\/a>, he founded\u00a0<a title=\"Provident Hospital (Chicago)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Provident_Hospital_(Chicago)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Provident Hospital<\/a>\u00a0in 1891, which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States. Provident also had an associated nursing school for African Americans. He is known for being the first to perform a successful\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Heart surgery\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heart_surgery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">heart surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1913, Williams was elected as the only African-American charter member of the\u00a0<a title=\"American College of Surgeons\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_College_of_Surgeons\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">American College of Surgeons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55403 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2025\/02\/Daniel_H._Williams-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jules-Albert_de_Dion#:~:text=Marquis%20Jules%20F%C3%A9lix%20Philippe%20Albert,pioneer%20of%20the%20automobile%20industry.\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jules-Albert de Dion<\/a><br>\n(March 9, 1856 \u2013 August 19, 1946)<\/p>\n<p>He was a French pioneer of the <a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Automobile industry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automobile_industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">automobile industry<\/a>. He invented a\u00a0<a title=\"Steam car\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steam_car\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">steam-powered car<\/a>\u00a0and used it to win\u00a0<a title=\"Paris\u2013Rouen (motor race)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris%E2%80%93Rouen_(motor_race)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the world\u2019s first auto race<\/a>, but his vehicle was adjudged to be against the rules. He was a co-founder of\u00a0<a title=\"De Dion-Bouton\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/De_Dion-Bouton\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">De Dion-Bouton<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest automobile manufacturer for a time, as well as the French sports newspaper\u00a0<i><a title=\"L'\u00c9quipe\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L%27%C3%89quipe\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">L\u2019\u00c9quipe<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51394\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51394 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/De_Dion_stoomdriewieler-300x293.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">de Dion on a steam car<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Louis_Maytag_I\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frederick Louis Maytag I\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(July 14, 1857 \u2013 March 26, 1937)<\/p>\n<p>Also known as <b>F. L. Maytag<\/b>, founded the\u00a0<a title=\"Maytag\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maytag\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Maytag<\/a>\u00a0Company, which eventually became the Maytag Corporation and in turn was acquired by the\u00a0<a title=\"Whirlpool Corporation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whirlpool_Corporation\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Whirlpool Corporation<\/a>\u00a0in 2006.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51415\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51415 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/BradRoss_MaytagModel30_restored-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1935 Maytag Model 30 Wringer Washer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_H._McConnell\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>David Hall McConnell Sr.<\/b><\/a><br>\n(July 18, 1858 \u2013 January 20, 1937)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American businessman who was the founder and president of the \u201cCalifornia Perfume Company\u201d, which then became <a title=\"Avon Products\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avon_Products\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Avon Products<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51403\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51403\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Avon_1886_logo-300x254.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First logo of Avon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Peter Pan Bus Companies<br>\nFounder\u2019s Family Tree<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/90945306\/carmine_peter_picariello\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Carmine Peter Picariello <\/a>(1858-1907)<br>\n+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/90945437\/faustina_picariello\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Faustina Spagnola Picariello<\/a> (1865-1929)<br>\n=<a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/50322215\/peter_carmen_picknelly\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peter Carmen Picknelly<\/a> (1891-1964)<\/p>\n<p>Peter Carmen Picknelly<br>\n+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/50322248\/jennie_m_picknelly\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jennie M Consiglio Picknelly <\/a>(1902-1984)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">= <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/50322197\/peter_l_picknelly\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peter L Picknelly<br>\n<\/a>(1930-2004)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter Carmine Picknelly founded the company in 1933 with two\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buick\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Buick<\/a>\u00a0limousines and named it after his son\u2019s favorite storybook,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Pan\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peter Pan<\/a>. The company\u2019s first route operated between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northampton,_Massachusetts\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Northampton, Massachusetts<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Boston<\/a>\u00a0through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stafford_Springs,_Connecticut\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stafford Springs, Connecticut<\/a>, costing $1.75 and requiring nearly four hours of travel time. In 1957, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts_Turnpike\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Massachusetts Turnpike<\/a>\u00a0was opened and travel time was cut in half.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Pan_Bus_Lines#cite_note-generation-5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The son of the founder, Peter L. Picknelly, took over upon the death of the founder in 1964 and developed tour packages to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1964_New_York_World%27s_Fair\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1964 New York World\u2019s Fair<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fobits.masslive.com%2Fus%2Fobituaries%2Fmasslive%2Fname%2Fpeter-picknelly-obituary%3Fid%3D14566138%26fbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1_Cg2f9-bq_RWAl3rstkA8hkC-pXRDp07srcoXwQJcYjwoT-lebd2Claw_aem_07o4HBH_ojCVqe69l7-Y6Q&amp;h=AT30yMQ8EwOjBBVwu_WC7DQ0JqzPcE2J14ECVY3fbaBWrcILJAbAMGQBmLsiQdI8_D1Kd9T0o0zgOfQweIG-yaxc_VSq7tT-lG_C7tKPu3IXoO6O-BsYNccrVKduCSAhAg2fm60zFxcgo7Zv4SdjgzQYfh-2cw&amp;__tn__=R%5d-R&amp;c%5b0%5d=AT1MGwAUiWAV-9eYkfvxvQ5kVOr_5Yvs43rn7nbN9JbYP97wyIJj9wvuIGH1dw3EySkHmJ_L6PfHTO1mnJYGt5tcTewDd_PNycV4f2y34Af0D3lY5Emmxf-1piJKucNdUUfWe8h3XEcqim0z_por9mUcKaZKGlIRDvxasOatAbhAY1u0U8lv6Q\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peter Picknelly Obituary (2004) \u2013 Springfield, MA \u2013 The Republican<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51406 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Peter_Pan_Bus_Lines_2013_MCI_J4500-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chester_Greenwood\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Chester Greenwood<\/b><\/a><br>\n(December 4, 1858 \u2013 July 5, 1937)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American engineer and inventor, known for inventing the <a title=\"Earmuffs\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earmuffs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">earmuffs<\/a>\u00a0in 1873. He reportedly came up with the idea while\u00a0<a title=\"Ice skating\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_skating\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ice skating<\/a> and he asked his grandmother to sew tufts of fur between loops of wire.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>His\u00a0<a title=\"Patent\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patent\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">patent<\/a>\u00a0was for improved ear protectors. He manufactured these ear protectors, providing jobs for people in the Farmington area for nearly 60 years.<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51409\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51409 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/440px-Cold-Weather_Ear_Muffs_2017-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"mw-mmv-author\"><a title=\"User:Toglenn\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Toglenn\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Toglenn<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<span class=\"mw-mmv-source\"><span class=\"int-own-work\" lang=\"en\">Own work<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Ferrari\u2019s Dad<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Alfredo-Ferrari\/6000000010433156607?fbclid=IwY2xjawFraVRleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSKIiFNiW8nL2-xFRfKGMyyOK86FcBQA4Vw2iqiGlzTVIUDVjYltjiy8KQ_aem_aLDCf9YwfLgDJZqQmTGo8A\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alfredo Ferrari <\/a>(1859-1916) was the father of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enzo_Ferrari#:~:text=Enzo%20Anselmo%20Giuseppe%20Maria%20Ferrari%20Cavaliere%20di%20Gran%20Croce%20OMRI#:~:text=Enzo%20Anselmo%20Giuseppe%20Maria%20Ferrari%20Cavaliere%20di%20Gran%20Croce%20OMRI\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Enzo Ferrari\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(February 18, 1898 \u2013\u00a0 \u00a0August 14, 1988)<\/p>\n<p>He was an Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scuderia_Ferrari\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scuderia Ferrari<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Prix_motor_racing\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Grand Prix motor racing<\/a>\u00a0team, and subsequently of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ferrari\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ferrari<\/a> automobile marque.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51412\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51412\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Enzo_Ferrari_-_Wheel_of_a_racing_car-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ferrari in 1920<b style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/b><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cy_DeVry\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cy DeVry<\/a><br>\n(1859\u20131934)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American zookeeper. He was the first director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lincoln_Park_Zoo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lincoln Park Zoo<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chicago<\/a>, holding this position from 1888 to 1919.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51418\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51418 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Cy_De_Vry_And___Senator__In_Lincoln_Park_Chicago_NBY_416297-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cy DeVry and \u201cSenator\u201d in Lincoln Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fusajiro_Yamauchi\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fusajiro Yamauchi <\/a><br>\n(November 22, 1859 \u2013 1940)<\/p>\n<p>He \u00a0was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Yamauchi Nintendo, later known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nintendo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nintendo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the context of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meiji_Restoration\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Meiji Restoration<\/a>, in 1885, gambling laws were relaxed in Japan, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanafuda\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hanafuda<\/a>\u00a0cards, which were previously banned, become legal. Fusajiro, after having opened other shops selling\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lime_(material)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lime<\/a>\u00a0in Kyoto, was inspired by both the booming business of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanafuda\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hanafuda<\/a>\u00a0and his personal taste for the game. He played it regularly and decided to use his skills as a craftsperson to open a factory building handmade Hanafuda decks.<\/p>\n<p>On September 23, 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi opened Yamauchi Fusajir\u014d Sh\u014dten, also known as Yamauchi Nintendo \u00a0at the location of an unoccupied house he had purchased.\u00a0Fusajiro crafted the Hanafuda decks using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morus_(plant)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mulberry<\/a>\u00a0bark, clay and a wood-block printing machine that he designed himself. The Hanafuda decks sold by Nintendo, known as Dait\u014dry\u014d (i.e President) decks, were recognizable thanks to the illustration of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Napoleon\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Napoleon<\/a>\u00a0that adorned them and became highly successful in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kyoto\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kyoto<\/a>\u00a0within a few years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51421\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51421\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Nintendo_1889-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original Nintendo headquarters (1889\u20131930) and workshop in Shimogy\u014d-ku, Kyoto, c.\u20091889. The right section was eventually rebuilt and the left section was reportedly demolished in 2004.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Born in 1860\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Teetor\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ralph Teetor\u00a0<\/a>\u2018s Parents<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/72182716\/john_hamilton_teetor\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Hamilton Teetor\u00a0<\/a>(1860-1939)<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/72182719\/katherine_columbia_teetor\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Katherine Columbia \u201cKate\u201d Rowe Teetor <\/a>(1859-1957)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">= <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Teetor\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ralph Teetor<\/a><br>\n(August 17, 1890 \u2013 February 15, 1982)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was a prolific inventor who invented <a title=\"Cruise control\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cruise_control\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cruise control<\/a>. He was the longtime president of the automotive parts manufacturer The Perfect Circle Co. (acquired in 1963 by\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Dana Holding Corporation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dana_Holding_Corporation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dana Holding Corporation<\/a>, then sold to\u00a0<a title=\"Mahle GmbH\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahle_GmbH\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mahle GmbH<\/a>\u00a0in 2007) in\u00a0<a title=\"Hagerstown, Indiana\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hagerstown,_Indiana\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hagerstown, Indiana<\/a>, a manufacturer of\u00a0<a title=\"Piston ring\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piston_ring\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">piston rings<\/a>. Teetor injured his eye at the age of five with a knife. Within a year, he developed\u00a0<a title=\"Sympathetic ophthalmia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sympathetic_ophthalmia\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sympathetic ophthalmia<\/a>\u00a0and became\u00a0<a title=\"Visual impairment\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Visual_impairment\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blind<\/a>\u00a0in both eyes. As a grown man he preferred never to discuss his disability.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51442\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51442\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/1024px-2000_Jeep_Steering_Wheel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">User Sav127 on en.wikipedia \u2013 Sav127<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zhan_Tianyou\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zhan Tianyou<\/a><br>\n(April 6, 1861 \u2013April 24, 1919)<\/p>\n<p>He was a pioneering Chinese railroad engineer. Educated in the United States, he was the chief engineer responsible for construction of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jingbao_Railway\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peking-Kalgan Railway<\/a>\u00a0(Beijing to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zhangjiakou\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zhangjiakou<\/a>), the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance. For his contributions to railroad engineering in China, Jeme is known as the \u201cFather of China\u2019s Railroad\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51445 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/220px-Zhangtianyoux.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"288\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Powell_Davis\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arthur Powell Davis<\/a><br>\n(February 9, 1861 \u2013 August 7, 1933)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American <a title=\"Hydrography\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydrography\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hydrographer<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Engineer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Engineer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">engineer<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Geographer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geographer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">geographer<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Topographer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Topographer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">topographer<\/a>\u00a0and nephew of\u00a0<a title=\"John Wesley Powell\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Wesley_Powell\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Wesley Powell<\/a>. He was born on February 9, 1861, in\u00a0<a title=\"Decatur, Illinois\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Decatur,_Illinois\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Decatur, Illinois<\/a>\u00a0and received his\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Civil Engineering\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_Engineering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Civil Engineering<\/a>\u00a0degree from\u00a0<a title=\"George Washington University\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Washington_University\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">George Washington University<\/a>\u00a0in 1888. Upon graduation he joined his uncle west on the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"US Geological Survey\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/US_Geological_Survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">US Geological Survey<\/a>\u00a0through\u00a0<a title=\"New Mexico\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Mexico\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New Mexico<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Arizona\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arizona\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arizona<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"California\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">California<\/a>. He then worked in hydrography in places as far flung as\u00a0<a title=\"China\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">China<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Puerto Rico\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerto_Rico\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Puerto Rico<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Nicaragua\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicaragua\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nicaragua<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Panama\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panama\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Panama<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Turkestan\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turkestan\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Turkestan<\/a>. In 1888 he co-founded the\u00a0<a title=\"National Geographic Society\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Geographic_Society\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Geographic Society<\/a>, and in 1907 he was elected president of the\u00a0<a class=\"new decorated-link\" title=\"Washington Society of Engineers (page does not exist)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Washington_Society_of_Engineers&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Washington Society of Engineers<\/a>. He served as the Director of the Reclamation Service (now the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"U.S. Bureau of Reclamation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._Bureau_of_Reclamation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">U.S. Bureau of Reclamation<\/a>) from 1914 to 1923. \u00a0He was elected to the\u00a0<a title=\"American Academy of Arts and Sciences\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a>\u00a0in 1921 and the\u00a0<a title=\"American Philosophical Society\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Philosophical_Society\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">American Philosophical Society<\/a>\u00a0in 1927.<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boulder Dam (later called\u00a0<a title=\"Hoover Dam\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoover_Dam\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hoover Dam<\/a>) was fundamentally the conception of Arthur Powell Davis. A month before he died, Arthur Powell Davis was appointed Consulting Engineer on the dam project. Mr. Davis had his vision back in 1902. He died in\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Oakland\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oakland<\/a>, California, on August 7, 1933, and is buried in St. Paul\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"Rock Creek Cemetery\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rock_Creek_Cemetery\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rock Creek Cemetery<\/a>\u00a0in Washington, D.C., along with his wife, Elizabeth B. Davis. The\u00a0<a title=\"Davis Dam\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Davis_Dam\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Davis Dam<\/a>\u00a0is named after him. Like other progressive Republicans, Arthur Davis had deep faith in the role of experts (he himself held a degree in civil engineering), worshipped efficiency, and viewed the federal government as a major instrument for social and political reform.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51448\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51448\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/500px-Ansel_Adams_-_National_Archives_79-AAB-01-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoover Dam by Ansel Adams, 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Arthur_Boeckling?fbclid=IwY2xjawFkOWxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHWkE3vFeJvBYktodqm87FzqXEi8Vvi6ZydoKC5Q84amoGKizcBMC9tBaJw_aem_39wqOYEzUz8UZJH0N_2zTA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">George Arthur Boeckling <\/a><br>\n(February 2, 1862 \u2013 July 24, 1931)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American businessman who served as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_(corporate_title)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">president<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cedar_Point\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cCedar Point Pleasure Resort Company of Indiana\u201d<\/a>, which later became\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cedar_Fair_Entertainment_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cedar Fair Entertainment Company<\/a>. He is often credited for bringing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cedar_Point\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cedar Point<\/a>\u00a0out of financial difficulties at the turn of the 20th century, and making it a nationally recognized amusement park and resort destination.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51451\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51451\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Leap_the_Dips_in_the_1920s-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leap the Dips, circa 1920s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Ford\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Henry Ford<\/a><br>\n(July 30, 1863 \u2013 April 7, 1947)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American <a title=\"Technological and industrial history of the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technological_and_industrial_history_of_the_United_States\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">industrialist<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Business magnate\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Business_magnate\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">business magnate<\/a>. As the founder of the\u00a0<a title=\"Ford Motor Company\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ford_Motor_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ford Motor Company<\/a>, he is credited as a pioneer in making\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Automobile\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">automobiles<\/a>\u00a0affordable for\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Middle-class\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle-class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">middle-class<\/a>\u00a0Americans through the system that came to be known as\u00a0<a title=\"Fordism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fordism\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fordism<\/a>. In 1911 he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the\u00a0<a title=\"Ford Model T\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ford_Model_T\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ford Model T<\/a>\u00a0and other automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>Ford continued to work the farm\u2014his father gave him an acreage\u2014but his heart was in tinkering. He clearly had a business in mind. Over the winters of 1888 through 1890, Henry Ford enrolled in Goldsmith, Bryant &amp; Stratton Business University in Detroit, where he likely took penmanship, bookkeeping, mechanical drawing, and general business practices.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44403 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/Henry_ford_1919-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Richard Warren Sears<\/strong><br>\n(December 7, 1863 \u2013 September 28, 1914)<\/p>\n<p>While he was in North Redwood, a jeweler refused delivery on a shipment of watches. Sears purchased them and sold them at a low price to the station agents, making a profit. He started a mail-order watch business in Minneapolis in 1886, calling it the R.W. Sears Watch Company. That year, he met\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alvah_Curtis_Roebuck\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alvah Curtis Roebuck<\/a>, a watch repairman. In 1887, Sears and Roebuck relocated the business to Chicago, and the company published Richard Sears\u2019s first mail-order catalog, offering watches, diamonds, and jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>In 1889, Sears sold his business for $100,000 ($3 million in 2021 dollars) and relocated to Iowa, planning to be a rural banker<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44418 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/Richard_Sears.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"297\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ransom_E._Olds\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ransom E. Olds<\/a><br>\n(June 3, 1864 \u2013 August 26, 1950)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was a pioneer of the <a title=\"Automotive industry in the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automotive_industry_in_the_United_States\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">American automotive industry<\/a>, after whom the\u00a0<a title=\"Oldsmobile\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oldsmobile\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oldsmobile<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"REO Motor Car Company\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/REO_Motor_Car_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">REO<\/a>\u00a0brands were named. He claimed to have built his first\u00a0<a title=\"Steam car\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steam_car\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">steam car<\/a>\u00a0as early as 1887 and his first gasoline-powered car in 1896. The modern\u00a0<a title=\"Assembly line\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assembly_line\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">assembly line<\/a>\u00a0and its basic concept is credited to Olds, who used it to build the first mass-produced automobile, the\u00a0<a title=\"Oldsmobile Curved Dash\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oldsmobile_Curved_Dash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oldsmobile Curved Dash<\/a>, beginning in 1901.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51457\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51457 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/440px-1904-oldsmobile-archives-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1904 Oldsmobile Model 6C \u201cCurved-Dashboard\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Swinnerton_Parker\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">George Swinnerton Parker<\/a><br>\n(December 12, 1866 \u2013 September 26, 1952)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American game designer and businessman who founded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geo._S._Parker_Co.\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Geo. S. Parker Co.<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parker_Brothers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Parker Brothers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51460 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Parker-Brothers-Logo.svg_-300x120.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lizzie_Magie\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lizzie Magie<\/a><br>\n(May 9, 1866 \u2013 March 2, 1948)<\/p>\n<p>She as an American\u00a0<a title=\"Game design\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Game_design#Game_designer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">game designer<\/a>, writer, feminist, and\u00a0<a title=\"Georgism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgism\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Georgist<\/a>. She invented\u00a0<i><a title=\"The Landlord's Game\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Landlord%27s_Game\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Landlord\u2019s Game<\/a><\/i>, the precursor to\u00a0<i><a title=\"Monopoly (game)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monopoly_(game)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Monopoly<\/a><\/i>, to illustrate teachings of the\u00a0<a title=\"Progressive Era\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressive_Era\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">progressive era<\/a>\u00a0economist\u00a0<a title=\"Henry George\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_George\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Henry George<\/a> (September 2, 1839 \u2013 October 29, 1897).<sup id=\"cite_ref-NYT-20150213_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44277 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/Landlords_board_game_cover-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Lloyd_Wright\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Frank Lloyd Wright <\/strong><\/a><strong><br>\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(June 8, 1867 \u2013 April 9, 1959)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Architect\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">architect<\/a>, designer, writer, and educator. He designed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright_works\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more than 1,000 structures<\/a>\u00a0over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and mentoring hundreds of apprentices in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taliesin_Fellowship\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Taliesin Fellowship<\/a>. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Organic_architecture\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">organic architecture<\/a>. This philosophy was exemplified in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fallingwater\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fallingwater<\/a>\u00a0(1935), which has been called \u201cthe best all-time work of American architecture\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio<\/b>\u00a0is a historic house and design studio in\u00a0<a title=\"Oak Park, Illinois\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oak_Park,_Illinois\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oak Park, Illinois<\/a>, which was designed and owned by architect\u00a0<a title=\"Frank Lloyd Wright\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Lloyd_Wright\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frank Lloyd Wright<\/a>. First built in 1889 and added to over the years, the home and studio is furnished with original Wright-designed furniture and textiles.<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> It has been restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust to its appearance in 1909, the last year Wright lived there with his family.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-aber_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>Here, Wright worked on his career and aesthetic in becoming one of the most influential architects\u00a0<a title=\"The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_20th-Century_Architecture_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">of the 20th century<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51469 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Frank_Lloyd_Wright_Home_Studio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"198\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He is the father of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Lloyd_Wright\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>John Lloyd Wright<\/strong><\/a><br>\n(December 12, 1892 \u2013 December 20, 1972)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Architect\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">architect<\/a>\u00a0and toy inventor. Born in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oak_Park,_Illinois\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oak Park, Illinois<\/a>, Wright was the second-oldest son of famed architect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Lloyd_Wright\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frank Lloyd Wright<\/a>. John Lloyd Wright became estranged from his father in 1909 and subsequently left his home to join his brother on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Coast_of_the_United_States\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">West Coast<\/a>. After unsuccessfully working a series of jobs, he decided to take up the profession of his father in 1912. Shortly afterward, he was able to reconnect with his father, who took John under his wing. Differences in opinion regarding the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imperial_Hotel,_Tokyo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Imperial Hotel, Tokyo<\/a>\u00a0caused the pair to again become disunited.<\/p>\n<p>John Lloyd Wright took a break from architecture after this falling-out and focused on designing toys. The most successful of these inventions was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lincoln_Logs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lincoln Logs<\/a>\u00a0in 1916, which would later be one of the original inductees into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Toy_Hall_of_Fame\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Toy Hall of Fame<\/a>. In 1923, Wright moved to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_Beach,_Indiana\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Long Beach, Indiana<\/a>\u00a0and designed several buildings. His style was characterized by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prairie_School\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Prairie School<\/a>\u00a0of architecture with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Style_(architecture)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">International Style<\/a>\u00a0influences. After marrying a third time in 1946, Wright left Indiana for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Del_Mar,_California\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Del Mar, California<\/a>, where he spent the rest of his life designing houses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51472\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51472 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Lincoln_Logs_sawmill-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sawmill made from Lincoln Logs Jesse Weinstein (JesseW) \u2022 CC BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S._S._Kresge\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">S. S. Kresge<\/a><br>\n(July 31, 1867 \u2013 October 18, 1966)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American businessman. He created and owned two chains of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Department_store\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">department stores<\/a>: the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S._S._Kresge_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">S. S. Kresge Company<\/a>, one of the 20th century\u2019s largest discount retail organizations, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kresge-Newark\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kresge-Newark<\/a>\u00a0traditional department store chain. The discounter was renamed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kmart_(United_States)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kmart Corporation<\/a>\u00a0in 1977.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51475 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Kmart_-_1969_Full_Colour.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"26\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morris_Michtom\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Morris Michtom <\/a><br>\n(September 12, 1869 \u2013 July 21, 1938)<\/p>\n<p>He was a Russian-born businessman and inventor who, with his wife Rose, also a Russian Jewish immigrant who lived in Brooklyn, came up with the idea for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teddy_bear\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">teddy bear<\/a>\u00a0in 1902\u00a0around the same time as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Steiff\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Richard Steiff<\/a>\u00a0in Germany. They founded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ideal_Novelty_and_Toy_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ideal Novelty and Toy Company<\/a>\u00a0which, after Michtom\u2019s death, became the largest doll-making company in the United States.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51478\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51478\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Teddy_bear_early_1900s_-_Smithsonian_Museum_of_Natural_History.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"246\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear thought to be made by Morris Michtom, early 1900s; donated to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History by Theodore Roosevelt\u2019s grandson, Kermit Roosevelt Jr., in 1964<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Born in 1870\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Ralph Lauren Family Tree<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Sam-Lifshitz\/6000000011222678960?through=6000000009155757263\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shlomo Zalman \u201cSam\u201d Lifshitz (Lifschitz) <\/a>(1870-1952)<br>\n+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Tamara-Lifshitz\/6000000017326807215?through=6000000011222678960\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tamara Lifshitz (Schneider)<\/a> (b. \u2013 c.1918)<br>\n= <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Frank-Lifshitz\/6000000009155757263?through=6000000009155626286\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frank Berg Lifshitz <\/a>(1904-1994)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Frank Berg Lifshitz (1904-1994)<br>\n+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Frieda-Cutler\/6000000009155626286?through=6000000009155757263\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frieda Fraydl\\Frajda Lifshitz (Cutler)<\/a> (1905-1994)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">= <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Lauren\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ralph Lauren\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(born October 14, 1939)<\/p>\n<p>He is an American <a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Fashion designer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fashion_designer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fashion designer<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Philanthropist\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philanthropist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">philanthropist<\/a>, and billionaire businessman, best known for founding the brand\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Ralph Lauren (brand)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Lauren_(brand)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ralph Lauren<\/a>, a global multibillion-dollar enterprise. He has become well known for his collection of rare automobiles, some of which have been displayed in museum exhibits. He stepped down as CEO of the company in September 2015 but remains executive chairman and\u00a0<a title=\"Chief creative officer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chief_creative_officer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">chief creative officer<\/a>. \u00a0As of April 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$8.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rlc-h2 rlc-year rlc-font-didot_roman rlc-all-color-dark\">1977 <em style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><i>Annie Hall<\/i><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0makes her mark<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rlc-copygroup-inner\">\n<p class=\"rlc-p rlc-dek rlc-font-didot_roman rlc-all-color-dark rlc-all-text-left\">Diane Keaton\u2019s trademark look, featuring several Ralph Lauren pieces, anchors the Oscar\u2013winning film. \u201c[The look] suggested a truly new and independent way of dressing,\u201d Joan Juliet Buck later wrote for\u00a0<i>Vogue<\/i>. \u201cIt was tender, personal, and original.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Lauren receives the Coty Hall of Fame award for womenswear.<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51484\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51484\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/440px-RalphLauren-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren in his office in 1978<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catherine_Hershey\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Catherine Elizabeth \u201cKitty\u201d Sweeney Hershey<\/strong><\/a><br>\n(July 6, 1871 \u2013 March 25, 1915)<\/p>\n<p>She was an American thilanthropist, who was known for her talent for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Landscape_architecture\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">landscape<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interior_design\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">interior design<\/a>. She was the wife of entrepreneur and chocolatier\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milton_S._Hershey\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Milton S. Hershey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51487\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51487 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Milton_Hershey_with_wife_Catherine_and_Mother_at_High_Point_Mansion.webp-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The obscure medieval legend of the Christmas slaughter of the world\u2019s sodomites is one example of how such persecutory traditions are rooted in prejudices presented as facts. It shows us the saints were frequently wrong, and their errors are now woven into what seem to be our traditions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLeon_Leonwood_Bean%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3LgR9RvO5aIk5UliqvEOWavtyKo7uSyDNhM0Wx01B4gV4DbjXlLzfVp6c_aem_MqUZsVKpv7onVY3Y-tdxwQ&amp;h=AT3NlzdolLZngpp3bIy_WcNNGa_vOAiIds0F9baL4g39YwjaeCVmadREng6ZGZ_2xMIflZPPWpvxA2n92JsaeJOoKxn-cAbpF9uoupj1JhDvMm_0k6kP3e9k-ijEkX5bgBqiV8pAYeVDiOYFywOM996Wu56Dvg&amp;__tn__=R%5d-R&amp;c%5b0%5d=AT3DErTovfa4hIQDHFno35uIiu-0wrotJWD6znroatG3M96PWJJikFPgx0olRBPVvRlKM5WJc7E8nDUEZz5m9qY03OC7Om4o5GptRWrEHcQBbOb5V6de646Ons0GccWxYOu7fxW4WLsAVJKDQ-nelGEN2Vg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Leon Leonwood Bean\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(October 13, 1872 \u2013 February 5, 1967)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American inventor, author, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Outdoor_enthusiast\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">outdoor enthusiast<\/a>, and founder of the company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L.L.Bean\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">L.L.Bean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51490\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51490\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/L.L._Bean_entrance_and_boot-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seasider53<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Eddie Bauer\u2019s Parents<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Robert-McCombs\/6000000028378477098\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Kerr McCombs <\/a>(1872-1956)<br>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/220507141\/marie_katherine_bauer?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3wmGxWYljlmimpPk2iWyctXQTJgyP8kdqkZPfFI1wPzJhGvf7nRnp1nxg_aem_3Cm5pa8zcNYUV1Dcp61blw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marie Katherine York Bauer <\/a>(1860-1934)\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eddie_Bauer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eddie Bauer\u00a0<\/a><br>\n<\/em><em>(October 19, 1899 \u2013 April 18, 1986) <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He was an American <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Outdoorsman\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">outdoorsman<\/a>, inventor, author, and businessman. He founded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eddie_Bauer#History\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eddie Bauer company<\/a>\u00a0to sell tennis-related items in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seattle\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Seattle<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_(state)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Washington<\/a>\u00a0in 1920. From a rented workbench inside another man\u2019s shop, it grew to become an international brand outfitting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mountaineering\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mountaineering<\/a>\u00a0and scientific expeditions with down-insulated garments and sleeping bags.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/backtothefuture.fandom.com\/wiki\/Down_vest\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Down vest | Futurepedia | Fandom<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51493\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51493 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Eddie_Bauer_Toronto_Eaton_Centre-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddie Bauer in Toronto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Louis Marx\u2019s Parents<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Jacob-Marx\/6000000172693060089?through=6000000186353138826\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jacob Marx <\/a>(1873-1937)<br>\n+<a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Sarah-Marx\/6000000192183581830?through=6000000172693060089\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0Sarah Marx (Unknown)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">= <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_Marx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Louis Marx<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(August 11, 1896 \u2013 February 5, 1982)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American toy maker and businessman whose company, <a title=\"Louis Marx and Company\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_Marx_and_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Louis Marx and Company<\/a>, was the largest toy company in the world in the 1950s. He was described by some as an experienced businessman with the mind of child.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51496\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51496\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/AN_ALLEY_IN_ROGERS_PARK_NORTH_SIDE_OF_CHICAGO_-_NARA_-_547170-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child on a Big Wheel in 1973 (Rogers Park, Chicago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Andrews_(shipbuilder)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thomas Andrews<\/a><br>\n(February 7, 1873 \u2013\u00a0 April 15, 1912)<\/p>\n<p>He was a British businessman and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shipbuilder\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shipbuilder<\/a>, who was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Managing_director\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">managing director<\/a>\u00a0and head of the drafting department of the shipbuilding company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harland_and_Wolff\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Harland and Wolff<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belfast\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Belfast<\/a>, Ireland. He was the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naval_architect\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">naval architect<\/a>\u00a0in charge of the plans for the ocean liner\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Titanic\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Titanic<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and perished along with more than 1,500 people when the ship\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sinking_of_the_Titanic\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sank on her maiden voyage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44688 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/Titanic_the_sinking-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Rudolph_Walgreen\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Charles Rudolph Walgreen\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(October 9, 1873 \u2013 December 11, 1939)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American businessman and the founder of <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walgreens\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Walgreens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51499\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51499\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Old__Walgreen__sign_San_Antonio-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early \u201cWalgreen Drugs\u201d sign still in use in San Antonio, Texas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Cash_Penney\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">James Cash Penney <\/a><br>\n(September 16, 1875 \u2013 February 12, 1971)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American businessman and entrepreneur who founded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JCPenney\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">JCPenney<\/a>\u00a0stores in 1902.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51502 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/James_Cash_Penney_ca._1902-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Ferdinand Porsche<br>\n<\/b>(September 3, 1875 \u2013\u00a0 January 30, 1951)<\/p>\n<p>He was an Austrian-Bohemian-German <a title=\"Automotive engineering\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automotive_engineering\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">automotive engineer<\/a>\u00a0and founder of the\u00a0<a title=\"Porsche\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Porsche\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Porsche AG<\/a>. He is best known for creating the first\u00a0<a title=\"Petrol engine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petrol_engine\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">gasoline<\/a>\u2013<a title=\"Electric motor\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electric_motor\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">electric<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Hybrid electric vehicle\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hybrid_electric_vehicle\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hybrid vehicle<\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"Lohner\u2013Porsche\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lohner%E2%80%93Porsche\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lohner\u2013Porsche<\/a>), the\u00a0<a title=\"Volkswagen Beetle\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volkswagen_Beetle\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Volkswagen Beetle<\/a>, the\u00a0<a title=\"Auto Union racing cars\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auto_Union_racing_cars\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Auto Union racing cars<\/a>, the\u00a0<a title=\"Mercedes-Benz SSK\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercedes-Benz_SSK\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mercedes-Benz SS\/SSK<\/a>, and several other important developments and Porsche automobiles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51505\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51505\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/440px-1953-porsche-archives-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1952 Porsche 356 K\/9-1 prototype<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nike Creator\u2019s Father<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jay_Bowerman?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1yRL4uLCfUK2UW6Lb1ohjHhC8-UvYbQDQvKzELGpLIZreltk8OKvBIFyw_aem_Zcw9JClTdMKG6dP-qARLBQ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jay Bowerman\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(August 15, 1876 \u2013 October 25, 1957)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American politician of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republican_Party_(United_States)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Republican Party<\/a>\u00a0who served as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Governors_of_Oregon\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">13th<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Governor_of_Oregon\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Governor of Oregon<\/a>, for the final few months of the term of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_W._Benson_(politician)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frank Benson<\/a>, who retired due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>Bowerman married Elizabeth Hoover in 1903 and they had four children including<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Bowerman\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bill Bowerman<\/a><br>\n(February 19, 1911\u00a0\u2013 December 24, 1999)<\/p>\n<p>He became a well-known track and field coach at the University of Oregon, as well as coach of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Over his career, he trained 31\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olympic_Games\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Olympic<\/a>\u00a0athletes, 51\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All-American\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">All-Americans<\/a>, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/4_minute_mile\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">4 minute milers<\/a>.He co-founded <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nike,_Inc.\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nike, Inc.<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phil_Knight\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Phil Knight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51508\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51508\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Ethan_J_Berger-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethanjberger \u2013 Own work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Rolls\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Charles Rolls<\/a>,<br>\n(August 27, 1877 \u2013\u00a0 July 12, 1910)<\/p>\n<p>He was a British motoring and aviation pioneer. With <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Royce\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Henry Royce<\/a>, he co-founded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rolls-Royce_Limited\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rolls-Royce<\/a>\u00a0car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, when the tail of his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wright_Model_A\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wright Flyer<\/a>\u00a0broke off during a flying display in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bournemouth\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bournemouth<\/a>. He was aged 32.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44793\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44793\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/Panhard__Levassor_autocar_C_S_Rolls_driver_and_George_V-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">C. S. Rolls driving the Duke of York accompanied by Sir Charles Cust and Rolls\u2019 father, Lord Llangattock, at \u2018The Hendre\u2019, 1900<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJoshua_Lionel_Cowen%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1FOoSMdGgRQBItU9BhIj4BuGZsyqfc1uOJj_r1pOBdA_c5ZTeuGoL6Ckw_aem_i3GJ9p7WgBjLmQAtVGEvKQ&amp;h=AT1aQJq6f9s6YkD-WrdJAzJOReawooQaDsdR6o9u82n_OfKJdEu8fKWqdVTz2Vb-iH8ervat8ilo-n7rqYnzDV6GRjB6yKH5qLIlWuZeHuu__y0kWan0Rfmoq6A1SEBBdvyvH4RGif5_pxJsIaexpeb34uC4cQ&amp;__tn__=R%5d-R&amp;c%5b0%5d=AT3DErTovfa4hIQDHFno35uIiu-0wrotJWD6znroatG3M96PWJJikFPgx0olRBPVvRlKM5WJc7E8nDUEZz5m9qY03OC7Om4o5GptRWrEHcQBbOb5V6de646Ons0GccWxYOu7fxW4WLsAVJKDQ-nelGEN2Vg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Joshua Lionel Cowen\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><br>\n(August 25, 1877 \u2013 September 8, 1965),<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He\u00a0 was an American inventor and cofounder of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lionel_Corporation\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lionel Corporation<\/a>, a manufacturer of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Model_railway\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">model railroads<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toy_train\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">toy trains<\/a>\u00a0that gained prominence in the market before and after World War II.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51511\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51511\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/H0e_layout2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"139\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Japanese H0e scale model railroad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Folding Umbrella Creator\u2019s Mother<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Toni-Antonia-Horowitz\/6000000063199744821?through=6000000063198799963\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0Toni (Antonia) (Taube-Malke) Horowitz<br>\n<\/a>(1878-1945)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Is the mother of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slawa_Duldig\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Slawa Duldig<\/a><br>\n(November 28, 1901\u2013\u00a0 \u00a0August 16, 1975)<\/p>\n<p>She was an inventor, artist, interior designer, and teacher. \u00a0In 1928, as Slawa Horowitz, \u00a0created a design for an improved compact folding umbrella, which she patented in 1929.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50977 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/11\/umbrella-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soren_Sorensen_Adams\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Soren Sorensen Adams <\/a><br>\n(May 24, 1879\u00a0\u2013 October 20, 1963)<\/p>\n<p>He was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danish-American\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Danish-American<\/a>\u00a0inventor and manufacturer of novelty products= who founded the\u00a0<em>Cachoo Sneezing Powder Company<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plainfield,_New_Jersey\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Plainfield<\/a>, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Within a few years, the sneezing powder craze that swept the country had subsided, and Sam set out to innovating new products. He also changed the name of the company to S.S. Adams Co. to reflect that it was no longer a one product company. The\u00a0<em>Exploding Cigarette Box<\/em>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snake_nut_can\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">snake nut can<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Itching_powder\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">itching powder<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stink_bomb\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">stink bomb<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dribble_glass\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">dribble glass<\/a>\u00a0all entered the Adams line in the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>In 1928, Sam invented the prototype of what was to become the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joy_buzzer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">joy buzzer<\/a>, a mechanical device placed in the hand, which emitted a loud vibrating buzz, when a button on the buzzer was depressed. This would usually occur when two people shook hands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51514 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/StinkBomb-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_L._Savage\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John L. Savage\u00a0<\/a><br>\n<\/b>\u00a0(December 25, 1879 \u2013 December 28, 1967)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American <a title=\"Civil engineer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_engineer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">civil engineer<\/a>. Among the 60 major dams he supervised the designs for, he is best known for the\u00a0<a title=\"Hoover Dam\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoover_Dam\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hoover Dam<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Shasta Dam\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shasta_Dam\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shasta Dam<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Parker Dam\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parker_Dam\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Parker Dam<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Grand Coulee Dam\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Coulee_Dam\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Grand Coulee Dam<\/a>\u00a0in the United States along with surveying for the future\u00a0<a title=\"Three Gorges Dam\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three_Gorges_Dam\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Three Gorges Dam<\/a>\u00a0in China. He was a member of the\u00a0<a title=\"National Academy of Sciences\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Academy_of_Sciences\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Academy of Sciences<\/a>\u00a0and the recipient of numerous awards including the\u00a0<a title=\"John Fritz Medal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Fritz_Medal\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Fritz Medal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51517\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51517\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Shasta_Dam_construction-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 6, 1943 view of Shasta dam, showing work on the power station (left of the river)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Born in 1880\u2019s\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_S._Harley\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">William S. Harley <\/a><br>\n(December 29, 1880 \u2013 September 18, 1943)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American mechanical engineer and businessman. He was one of the four co-founders of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harley-Davidson\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Harley-Davidson Motor Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51523\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51523\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Harley-Davidson_monument_Littleport_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_112545-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monument in Littleport, England. The birthplace of his father William Harley Sr.<br>David Gruar \u2022 CC BY-SA 2.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGuccio_Gucci%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2tvyUqRSEHtCvSTGVNvt7jelc-63L3K3n8od74vKNNqECqek3Kp4eRsIg_aem_foGWHAdC1gKfegjJmR7vHA&amp;h=AT2_8XuXuKH7ZaFqm4YznKxdQiDBjCoIV2idxEmUJYfZ_RGt_kx54VmjkUzngZ4Bcx5gwz8J677qqGHH8b0rJPajmDtvqHlrAqSq0xdsa_ndsYsz7Bu5SCV0_wIkdXFojWuN4KUDySeh3GuWA98NNPA2mejbMg&amp;__tn__=R%5d-R&amp;c%5b0%5d=AT2Qd9seFCFe-mvYp2RqMCLTFS-tUA5VYH2uuPObdvKRVpwxk7O2EZC8sIp73KxFEe7ouSM1Vsv80EoxuZjomaoLFH57mg6QMgM9mN44Nrqup4lSk1gZDIg5iWBW-2KTs9O3Pwz_vz3DdTLae9DcYB68yXfP-hL7ccWP_ZSye8Qp8eFVVmdnGkfi13zlJusntA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Guccio Gucci <\/a><br>\n(March 26, \u00a01881 \u2013 \u00a0\u00a0January 2, 1953)<\/p>\n<p>He was an Italian businessman and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fashion_designer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fashion designer<\/a>\u00a0and founder of the fashion house\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gucci\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gucci<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51526 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/1960s_Gucci_Logo.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"125\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWilliam_Scholl%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1FOoSMdGgRQBItU9BhIj4BuGZsyqfc1uOJj_r1pOBdA_c5ZTeuGoL6Ckw_aem_i3GJ9p7WgBjLmQAtVGEvKQ&amp;h=AT3MtRPtxQ3i8C4yvVVM2VbWeN70Hxxs3XnBRQd0py79P4Piep9MZUrAXGUqKfk95sv8763s-oLULBhTxYvY8qEdWT709xlBj8ZPFENECw2J0iKk5BQJfqE4fN832MJBfn8IYumQksEOfZ39gyJsgwi4H_Qs1Q&amp;__tn__=R%5d-R&amp;c%5b0%5d=AT3DErTovfa4hIQDHFno35uIiu-0wrotJWD6znroatG3M96PWJJikFPgx0olRBPVvRlKM5WJc7E8nDUEZz5m9qY03OC7Om4o5GptRWrEHcQBbOb5V6de646Ons0GccWxYOu7fxW4WLsAVJKDQ-nelGEN2Vg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>William Scholl<\/strong><\/a><br>\n(June 22, 1882 \u2013 March 29, 1968)<\/p>\n<p>He was a pioneer of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foot_care\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">foot care<\/a>\u00a0and the founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dr._Scholl%27s\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dr. Scholl\u2019s<\/a>, a brand of foot care products.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51529\" style=\"width: 163px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51529\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Dr_Scholl_newspaper_ad_1923-163x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1923 newspaper ad for Dr Scholl\u2019s Zino-pads for corns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Crowe\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frank Crowe\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(October 12, 1882 \u2013\u00a0February 26, 1946)<\/p>\n<p>He was a Canadian <a title=\"Civil engineer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_engineer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">civil engineer<\/a>\u00a0and employee of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Morrison-Knudsen\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morrison-Knudsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Morrison-Knudsen<\/a>, who later became in 1931, the General Construction Superintendent of the\u00a0<a title=\"Hoover Dam\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoover_Dam\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hoover Dam<\/a>\u00a0construction contract.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51532 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Frank_Crowe-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coco_Chanel\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coco Chanel<\/a><br>\n(August 19, 1883 \u2013 January 10, 1971)<\/p>\n<p><sup id=\"cite_ref-biography.com_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>She was a French <a title=\"Fashion design\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fashion_design\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fashion designer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Businessperson\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Businessperson\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">businesswoman<\/a>. The founder and namesake of the\u00a0<a title=\"Chanel\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chanel\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chanel<\/a>\u00a0brand, she was credited in the post-<a title=\"World War I\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">World War I<\/a>\u00a0era with popularising a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style. She is the only fashion designer listed on\u00a0<i><a title=\"Time (magazine)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_(magazine)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Time<\/a><\/i>\u00a0magazine\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_100:_The_Most_Important_People_of_the_Century\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century<\/a>. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel extended her influence beyond\u00a0<a title=\"Haute couture\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haute_couture\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">couture clothing<\/a>\u00a0into jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. Her signature scent,\u00a0<a title=\"Chanel No. 5\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chanel_No._5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chanel No. 5<\/a>, has become an iconic product, and Chanel herself designed her famed interlocked-CC monogram, which has been in use since the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44976 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/Coco_Chanel_in_Los_Angeles_1931_cropped-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_F._Lamb\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">William F. Lamb <\/a><br>\n(November 21, 1883 \u2013 September 8, 1952)<\/p>\n<p>He \u00a0was an American\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Architect\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">architect<\/a>, chiefly known as one of the principal designers of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Empire_State_Building\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Empire State Building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51535\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51535\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Zeppelin_bij_Empire_State_Building_in_aanbouw_-_Zeppelin_near_the_Empire_State_Building_under_construction_6943970242-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Het Amerikaanse luchtschip ZR-3 Los Angeles vliegt nabij het in aanbouw zijnde Empire State Building in New York, 29 oktober 1930. De zeppelin, gebouwd als LZ 126, wordt begeleid door enkele blimps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAlfred_Carlton_Gilbert%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3LgR9RvO5aIk5UliqvEOWavtyKo7uSyDNhM0Wx01B4gV4DbjXlLzfVp6c_aem_MqUZsVKpv7onVY3Y-tdxwQ&amp;h=AT3Olx_SDxc8lDDubKs75UR0UtdvdkllaPS9ZpTsIBJOAJtlihOYAzD00aNBP15F2snEOEl2Vtayxzgfxt1qSRCaGan-TKVU3s7C6B-PsmbcBQM2FIgssRpiks15BPeh0drWjO7Rv3f4jjaBLS1oBvv9QDjXmA&amp;__tn__=R%5d-R&amp;c%5b0%5d=AT3DErTovfa4hIQDHFno35uIiu-0wrotJWD6znroatG3M96PWJJikFPgx0olRBPVvRlKM5WJc7E8nDUEZz5m9qY03OC7Om4o5GptRWrEHcQBbOb5V6de646Ons0GccWxYOu7fxW4WLsAVJKDQ-nelGEN2Vg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Alfred Carlton Gilbert\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><br>\n(February 15, 1884 \u2013 January 24, 1961)<\/p>\n<p>He was an American inventor, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Athletics_(sport)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">athlete<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magic_(illusion)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">magician<\/a>, toy maker and businessman. As the founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A._C._Gilbert_Company\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A. C. Gilbert Company<\/a>, Gilbert was known for inventing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erector_Set\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Erector Set<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Flyer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">American Flyer Trains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"member-item d-flex mb-2\" data-href=\"\/memorial\/237449059\/fannie_lazarus\">\n<div class=\"flex-grow-1 ms-2\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_51538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51538\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51538\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/The_Saturday_evening_post_1920_14784719315-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A.C. Gilbert ad in The Saturday Evening Post in 1920.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_Upton\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Louis Upton<\/a><br>\n(October 10, 1886 \u2013 October 9, 1952)<\/p>\n<p>He is best known for co-founding the <a title=\"Whirlpool Corporation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whirlpool_Corporation\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Whirlpool Corporation<\/a>\u00a0(originally known as\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Upton Machine Company\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upton_Machine_Company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Upton Machine Company<\/a>) with his uncle Emory Upton and investor Lowell Bassford in 1911.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51541 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Whirlpool_Corporation_Logo_as_of_2017.svg_-300x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">World Trade Center\u2019s Designer\u2019s Parents<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitree.com\/wiki\/%E5%B1%B1%E5%B4%8E-38\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u3064\u306d\u3058\u308d\u3046 (\u5c71\u5d0e) Yamasaki <\/a>(1886-1962)<br>\n+\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitree.com\/wiki\/%E4%BC%8A%E8%97%A4-178\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u30cf\u30ca (\u4f0a\u85e4) Yamasaki <\/a>(1893-1967)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">= <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minoru_Yamasaki\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Minoru Yamasaki<\/a><br>\n(December 1, 1912 \u2013 February 6, 1986)<\/p>\n<p>He \u00a0was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_Americans\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Japanese-American<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Architect\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">architect<\/a>, best known for designing the original\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Trade_Center_(1973%E2%80%932001)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">World Trade Center<\/a>\u00a0in New York City and several other large-scale projects.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minoru_Yamasaki#cite_note-nymag-4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><sup>[4]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century. He and fellow architect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Durell_Stone\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Edward Durell Stone<\/a>\u00a0are generally considered to be the two master practitioners of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Formalism_(architecture)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New Formalism<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>During his three-decade career, he and his firm designed over 250 buildings.\u00a0His firm,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yamasaki_%26_Associates\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yamasaki &amp; Associates<\/a>, closed on December 31, 2009.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51544\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51544\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/World_Trade_Center_New_York_City_-_aerial_view_March_2001-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arial view of WTC in March of 2001 <span class=\"mw-mmv-source-author\"><span class=\"mw-mmv-author\"><a title=\"User:Jeffmock\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Jeffmock\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeffmock<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<span class=\"mw-mmv-source\"><span class=\"int-own-work\" lang=\"en\">Own work<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/32526283\/herbert_walter-sellner\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Herbert Walter Sellner<br>\n<\/a>(1887-1930)<\/p>\n<p>He invented the first water slide called the toboggan\u00a0water slide and the carnival ride the tilt-a-whirl in the 1920\u2019s which are still made and used today. \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/32526283\/herbert_walter-sellner\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u2013 Find a Grave Memorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51547\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51547 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/Abandoned_Tilt-A-Whirl_ride-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prudhomme\u2019s Landing Wet n\u2019 Wild, Abandoned water park, Jordan Station, Ontario, <span class=\"mw-mmv-author\"><a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/13638129@N00\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Derrick Mealiffe<\/a>\u00a0from Toronto, Canada<\/span>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<span class=\"mw-mmv-source\"><a class=\"external text decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dmealiffe\/118245464\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Wet n Wild<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michio_Suzuki_(inventor)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michio Suzuki (inventor)\u00a0<\/a><br>\n(February 18, 1887 \u2013 October 27, \u00a01982)<\/p>\n<p>He was a Japanese businessman and inventor, known primarily for founding the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suzuki\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Suzuki Motor Corporation<\/a>, as well as several innovations in the design of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loom\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">looms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51550\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51550\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51550\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/12\/440px-Suzuki_Suzulight_01-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1955 Suzulight <span class=\"mw-mmv-author\"><a title=\"User:Mytho88\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Mytho88\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mytho88<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<span class=\"mw-mmv-source\"><span class=\"int-own-work\" lang=\"en\">Own work<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Le_Corbusier\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Le Corbusier <\/a><br>\n(October 6, 1887 \u2013\u00a0 August 27, 1965)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45069 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/330px-Le_Corbusier_1964-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>He was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, <a title=\"Urban planner\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Urban_planner\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">urban planner<\/a>\u00a0and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as\u00a0<a title=\"Modern architecture\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modern_architecture\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">modern architecture<\/a>. He was born in Switzerland and acquired French nationality by naturalization on 19 September 1930. <sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>His career spanned five decades, in which he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, as well as North and South America. <sup id=\"cite_ref-:0_7-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He considered that \u201cthe roots of modern architecture are to be found in\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect decorated-link\" title=\"Viollet-le-Duc\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viollet-le-Duc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Viollet-le-Duc<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45072 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1316\/2024\/09\/330px-CF05-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/22754\/george_b-hansburg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">George B. 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