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The first cable TV system in the state was activated in Casper (pop. 49,644) in 1953. Although it was not the first cable system in…
In 1897, John Jacob Abel, the first full-time professor of pharmacology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, reported the isolation of a derivative of epinephrine…
In 1999, the first successfully cloned farm animal in the United States was born at the University of Connecticut at Storrs (pop. 10,996). The Holstein…
Noted food scientist Robert Decareau (1926-2009) helped to invent the processes necessary to develop the microwave oven. A longtime resident of Amherst (pop. 10,769), Decareau…
Earlier this year, the town of Portsmouth (pop. 17,149) erected its second wind turbine on the property of Portsmouth High School. The turbine generates electricity…
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The world’s largest vacuum chamber is a cathedral-like structure measuring 100 feet in diameter and towering 122 feet tall at the Space Power Facility at…
The state’s top performer in publicly traded companies in 2008 was National Presto Industries of Eau Claire (pop. 61,704). A $1,000 investment in National Presto…
In 1903, Michael Owens invented an automatic bottle-making machine that revolutionized the glass industry. Previously, manufacturers had to blow glass to produce bottles. Owens was…
Doctoral student Robert McGinnis and his adviser Menachem Elimelech, of Yale University in New Haven, published in 2008 the results of their research on engineered…
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After Digital Equipment Corp. engineer Gordon Bell and his wife, Gwen, discovered in the late 1970s that their collection of computer-related artifacts was outgrowing their…
