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Showing posts with label Inventors and Inventions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inventors and Inventions. Show all posts
Saturday, April 27, 2024

The History of Prince Castle Ice Cream Shops (1931-1954) and Cock Robin, (1954-2008).

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Prince Castle A boy points to a billboard touting the One In A Million milkshakes sold at the Price Castle ice cream shop in Naperville, whi...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

The Chicago Home Insurance Building: The Pioneer of Skyscraper Architecture in 1885.

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Standing tall and proud amidst the bustling streets of Chicago, the Home Insurance Building etched its name in the annals of architectural h...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

World's First Nuclear Reactor at the University of Chicago.

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THE BEGINNING Construction of CP-1, or Chicago Pile Number One,   was constructed under the University of Chicago's Stagg Field football...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Nikola Tesla's "Egg of Columbus" at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.

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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American engineer and physicist who made dozens and dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transm...
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Saturday, October 1, 2022

People's Pure Ice Company, Chicago, Illinois. Founded 1901.

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People's Pure Ice Company started in the 1890s and originally consisted of four buildings at 34 Clybourn Place. Today's location wou...
Monday, September 26, 2022

The First Elongated Coin Souvenirs in America were at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

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Modern Example with Four Different Stamps It's generally accepted that the first elongated coins in the United States were sold at Chica...
Monday, August 1, 2022

The 1893 World's Fair Electrical Subway.

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1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition Electrical Subway. When plans were first formulated for the lighting of the grounds of the Wor...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

The Darche Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Illinois. (1882-1929)

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The Darche Manufacturing Company opened at 1824 West Grand Avenue, Chicago in 1882. In 1909, Chicago renamed and renumbered many streets bec...
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