This type of list is right up my alley. It includes all sorts of factoids about the state of Massachusetts, most of which I never heard before. Makes me want to visit there. Oh, wait, I am going to visit there—on August 9th, at 6:30PM, I will be doing a multi-media presentation on Lizzie Borden in Popular Culture at the Fall River Public Library (shameless plug).
Oh, back to the subject at hand. Here is a sample from the list which can be downloaded as a PDF here.
Thank you Chubby Woodman!
Inventions and Innovations
1891 Basketball was invented by James Naismith in Springfield
1895 Volleyball was invented by William Morgan in Holyoke
1925 Frozen food invented by Clarence Birdseye in Gloucester
1928 First computer was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge
1930 Chocolate chips and chocolate chip cookies invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield. Wakefield named her new cookie invention after the Toll House Inn, which she ran in Whitman, Massachusetts.
1855 Boston cream pie, Parker House rolls and Boston Scrod were all invented at the Omni Parker House in Boston.
1914 Fried clams invented by Lawrence “Chubby” Woodman in Essex
1957 Pink flamingo lawn ornaments invented by Don Featherstone in Leominster
