Hi Ya'll,
Well, it's Saturday and a good day to kick back. I did want to give you a little more information before I take a break.
Listen to these facts. These are all pretty random.......but interesting.
There were more National Guard soldiers deployed from Tennessee for the Gulf War effort than any other state.
Nashville was founded on Christmas Eve in 1779 by James Robertson, John Donelson and a party of Wataugans. It was named after the American Revolutionary hero Francis Nash.
Dr. Myles Vandahurst Lynk was born in Haywood County, Tennessee in 1871 and on Nov. 18, 1895 helped organize and form the National Medical Association,
The only person in American history to be both an Admiral in the Navy and a General in the Army was Samuel Powhatan Carter who was born in Elizabethton, Tennessee.
Here's a list of some of the inventions that have come out of Tennessee. I think some of these will surprise you.
Good ole’ Cotton Candy was invented in Nashville in 1897. Yep, candy makers, William Morrison and John C. Wharton invented a device that heated sugar in a spinning bowl that had tiny holes in it. It formed a treat that they originally called "Fairy Floss." Morrison and Wharton introduced cotton candy to the world at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.
And there’s the Dumpster. In 1935 a Knoxville inventor, George Roby Dempster, came up with the idea for the Dempster Dumpster. It was designed to aide in the pick up of used construction materials in order to transport them away. This new idea quickly turned into the first garbage collection system in the United States, with Knoxville, TN becoming the first “Dumpster City,” in 1937.
I have never used a tow truck before but it's interesting to note that it originated in 1916 in the city of Chattanooga, after Ernest Holmes, Sr. helped a friend retrieve his car with three poles, a pulley and a chain hooked to the frame of a 1913 Cadillac. After patenting his invention and he began manufacturing wreckers and towing equipment for sale.
We really don’t use this next item much anymore but the first typewriter ribbon was patented in 1886 by George K. Anderson of Memphis. The patent of the typewriter ribbon took place 13 years after the invention of the typewriter.
You see "Check Into Cash" everywhere nowadays. The first office opened in 1993 in Cleveland, Tennessee which is now Corporate Headquarters for offices located throughout the United States.
I'm sure everyone has played a game of miniatur golf at one time or another. But did you know that it was invented right here in Tennessee. Garnet Carter was the first person to patent a game of miniature golf which he called "Tom Thumb Golf" in 1927. The golf course was built on Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, TN, to draw traffic to the hotel that Carter owned.
MoonPies have been around ever since I can remember. The Chattanooga Bakery in, of course, Chattanooga was founded in the early 1900's as a subsidiary of the Mountain City Flour Mill. The bakery's original purpose was to use the excess flour produced by the mill. By 1910, the bakery offered over 200 different confectionery items and in 1917, the bakery developed a product which was named the MoonPie. It was originally developed for coal miners to carry in their lunch boxes.
Well, that's all I've got for you today but now don't you feel just a little smarter on this Saturday morning? :)
Have a great weekend and we'll see you again right here........same topic......same blog.
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