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Chocolate
Milton Hershey was born on this day on a farm in a small town of Pennsylvania. He had a limited education, and only completed the fourth grade. -
dynamite
dynamite was invented by sweetish chemist and engineer alfred nobel in 1866. Dynamite consists of nitroglycerin and kieselgur. Nobel frist sold his dynamite as Nobel's Blasting Power. Nobel made dynamite safer and more easier to handel. People used dynamite insted of gunpowder or nitroglycerin. In the mid-1970s people stopped using dynamite and switched to water gel explosives which was cheaper to make and safer to handel.
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The Invention of the Torpedo
The torpedo was invented by Robert Whitehead in the year 1866. He invented the first intitial torpedo with his 12-year-old son John and a workman by the name of Annibale Ploech. It was named Minenschiff, and showed it to the Austrian Imperial Naval commission on 21 December 1866.
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Alfred Nobel, Dynamite
Alfred Nobel was a very successful Swedish chemist. After college, he worked with his father in a factory along with his younger brother. In 1864, a factory explosion took the lives of his younger brother and four other people. Because of this unfortunate event, Nobel decided to develop a safe way to handle nitroglycerin by adding different substances. After two years, Nobel%u2019s goal was finally achieved when he mixed nitroglycerin with silica, forming a paste-like mixture. -
Chocolate
Milton Hershey improved the chocolate buisness by opening the first candy-making buisness in Philadelphia. This buisness was a success and led to many other chocolate accomplishments. In 1880 Milton patented Hershey chocolate. -
Telegraph
In the late 1870's, two inventors were over the dispute about the telegraph. Both of them had plans for their inventions but neither of them could decide who invented the first working one though. After awhile, it was safe to say that Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent his invention of the Telegraph which would soon be the Telephone. -
Eadweard Muybridge Motion Picture Invention
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DR. PEPPER
Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco, Texas by Charles Alderton, a young pharmacist at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store. The store's owner, Morrison, is credited with the name Dr. Pepper. Alderton then gave over the drink to Robert S. Lazenby, a beverage chemist, and Morrison to farther improve it. Dr. Pepper was introduced to the world at the St. Louis World Fair. Dr. Pepper has had many different slogans but its most recent one is "There's just more to it" to express the 23 flavors in one drink.
