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Illuminating Connecticut’s Past: The Bradley & Hubbard Legacy

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Electric Boat: From Innovation Trials to WWII Submarine Leadership

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Sophia Woodhouse Welles: Wethersfield’s World-Famous Bonnet Maker

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Sarah Boone: First Connecticut Black Woman to Receive Patent

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New London Harbor Lighthouse: Connecticut’s First Official Lighthouse

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The Ives Manufacturing Company: Connecticut’s Foremost Toy Maker

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This Won’t Hurt a Bit! A Brief History of Anesthesia

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The Stamford Foundry Company Made Notable Stoves

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The “Perfect Handle” Hatchet – Who Knew?

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Yankee Ingenuity: Curtis Veeder, a Mechanical Genius and Shrewd Businessman

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David Bushnell and his Revolutionary Submarine

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    Brenda Milkofsky

  • Town(s):
    Old Saybrook, Westbrook

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A Different “Type” of Connecticut Industry

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Boone Guyton Tested the Limits of World-Famous Aircraft

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Elastic Web Expands Textile Manufacturing in West Haven

Christopher Miner Spencer, 19th-century Arms Manufacturer

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Elisha Root Changes Industry – Who Knew?

The Life of Chauncey Jerome: An Insider’s Look at What Made Early Bristol Tick

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The Steady Evolution of a Connecticut Family Business

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WDRC AM/FM – Connecticut’s Oldest Commercial Radio Station

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Ferry Boats a Way of Life in Early Connecticut

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The Story of Pineapple Cheese

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Albert Augustus Pope, Transportation Pioneer

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Benjamin Dutton Beecher had a Penchant for Invention

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Frank Duryea Drives the First Automobile in Connecticut

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The “Fancy Chair” Craze of the 1800s: Lambert Hitchcock and the Story of the Hitchcock Chair

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Edwin Land Inventor of the Polaroid Born – Today in History: May 7

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World-renowned Maker of Axes: The Collins Company of Canton

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The Pike Family Lived a Life of Dyeing

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Shakers Revolutionize Garden Seed Business – Who Knew?

Road Signs of the Air

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Benjamin Silliman and Soda Water – Who Knew?

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Marking Time: Early Connecticut Innovations Transform Clock Making

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Charles Ritchel and the Dirigible

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The Corbin Cabinet Lock Company and Patent Law: A Lesson in Novelty from a CT Perspective

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Town Patents the Lattice Truss Bridge – Today in History: January 28

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Family Ties Bring Together North Branford Industry

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Rubber Vulcanization and the Myth of Nathaniel Hayward

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Patents – Bozrah’s Inventive Minds

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Norwich’s “Volcanic” Past

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Mohawk Mountain Made Snow for Winter Sports Lovers – Who Knew?

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The First US Can Opener – Today in History: January 5

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Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Originated in Stamford

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Horace Wells Discovers Pain-free Dentistry

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Daniel Curtiss: The Life of a 19th-Century Self-Made Man

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New Haven Gives the Lollipop its Name – Today in History: October 13

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The Whitney Armory Helps Progress in Hamden

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American Architect Ithiel Town Born – Today in History: October 3

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World’s First Helicopter – Today in History: September 14

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Parachutist Snagged in Midair – Today in History: September 13

A Diversified Mind: Hiram Percy Maxim

  • Writer:
    Michael Marinaro

  • Town(s):
    Hartford, Newington

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Wheeler & Wilson: A Stitchy Situation in Watertown

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The Turtle Submarine – Today in History: September 6

Roosevelt Rides in an Electric Car – Today in History: August 22

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A Pie Tin’s Soaring Sales

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Hubbell’s Pull-Chain Electrical Light Socket – Today in History: August 11

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A World in Motion: Artist and Sculptor Alexander Calder

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Aristocratic Dental Cream Gets Squeezed

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Erector Set Patented – Today in History: July 8

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Silas Brooks, Balloonist

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John Howe Makes a Better Pin – Today in History: June 22

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The Automatic Gallows – Today in History: June 18

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The Blake Rock Crusher – Today in History: June 15

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Thomas Hall’s Electric Block Railroad Signal – Today in History: June 7

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The Inventive Minds of Connecticut Women: Patents in the 19th Century

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W. J. Squire’s Gill Net Manufactory in East Haddam

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First Woman to Receive US Patent – Today in History: May 5

Colt’s Submarine Battery – Today in History: April 13

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Charles Goodyear’s Machine for Making Rubber Fabrics

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The Telescoping Fishing Rod – Today in History: March 8

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Rockwell Hardness Tester – Today in History: February 11

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Connecticut Transforms Aaron Draper Shattuck

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The Launch of the USS Nautilus – Today in History: January 21

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Pratt & Whitney Debuts Wasp Engine – Today in History: December 24

Barkhamsted Reservoir Construction Washes Away a Community

Pierre Lallement and the Modern-Day Pedal Bicycle – Today in History: November 20

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Helicopters, Guitars, and Guide Dogs: The Revolutionary Mind of Charles Kaman

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First US Detachable Electric Plug – Today in History: November 8

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Seth Thomas Works Around the Clock in Wolcott

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Igor Sikorsky Dies – Today in History: October 26

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Portland Improves the Steam Engine

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Halladay’s Revolutionary Windmill – Today in History: August 29

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Airborne Pioneers: Connecticut Takes Flight

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Improving Sea Transportation: Guilford Goes About it the Light Way

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USS Nautilus Passes Under North Pole – Today in History: August 3

North Branford Vied for the Title of “Shredded Coconut Capital of the World” – Who Knew?

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Levi Pease, Stage Route and Transportation Innovator

Cleopatra’s Needle and Groton’s Captain Davis – Who Knew?

New England’s Grand Ambition: The Farmington Canal

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A Revolution On Two Wheels: Columbia Bicycles

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Horseshoe Nail Capital of the World – Who Knew?

Furniture Caster Patented – Today in History: June 30

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Samuel L. Clemens Receives Scrap-book Patent – Who Knew?

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Flying High with Early Dirigible

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First Human Test of a Nylon Parachute – Today in History: June 6

Albert Pope Pioneered Bicycles for Women

Jacob Schick Invents the Electric Razor – Today in History: May 13

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First American Medicine Patent – Today in History: April 30

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USS Tullibee – Today in History: April 27

The Coaster Brake – Today in History: April 9

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Amateur Radio Comes of Age in Connecticut

  • Writer:
    Michael Marinaro

  • Town(s):
    Newington

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Connecticut’s First Municipal Electric Utility

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The Revolving Gun – Today in History: February 25

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North and South: The Legacy of Eli Whitney

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John Fitch Born – Today in History: January 21

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Clarence Dickinson Carries Printing Innovation into the 20th Century

Igor Sikorsky and his Flying Machines

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Samuel Colt…and Sewing Machines?

Noble Jerome’s Clock Patent Model

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The Colt Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company

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Phineas Pratt’s Machine for Making Combs – Today in History: April 12

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The Portable Typewriting Machine – Today in History: April 12

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Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Inventor of the Erector Set – Today in History: February 15

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Reel Lawn Mower Patent – Today in History: January 28

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Patents – Stafford’s Inventive Minds

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Patents – Bloomfield’s Inventive Minds

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Government Orders Horse Pistols – Today in History: March 9

Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: American Clock & Watch Museum

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Heart Pump out of an Erector Set – Who Knew?

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Charles Goodyear and the Vulcanization of Rubber

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Thread Your Needle – Today in History: March 2

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When the World Ran on Connecticut Time

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Workers at the Colt Armory, Hartford 1867

Merritt Parkway 1939

Workers at the Eli Terry Clock Factory 1850

The League of American Wheelmen and Hartford’s Albert Pope Champion the Good Roads Movement

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Salisbury Iron Forged Early Industry

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Amasa Goodyear and Son Re-Invent Naugatuck

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