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Category Archives: New Hampshire Inventors
Not New Hampshire: Roscoe E. Rodda, Inventor of Peeps (1862-1941)
When you think about Easter, you can't help but think of “Peeps…” Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, Humor, New Hampshire Inventors, Not New Hampshire
Tagged candy, chick, Easter, marshmallow, marshmellow, peeps, Rodda, spring, sweets, yellow
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Lebanon New Hampshire’s Inventor, Mesmerist, Mental Healer, and "Father of New Thought": Phineas Parkhurst "Park" Quimby (1802-1866)
Phineas Parkhurt Quimby was born in 1802 to a blacksmith and his wife.
They moved to Belfast Maine when Phineas … Continue reading
Berlin New Hampshire Tupperware Inventor: Earl Silas Tupper (1907-1983)
American manufacturer Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware, was born in New Hampshire.
He graduated from Fitchburg [MA] High school … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, New Hampshire Inventors, New Hampshire Men
Tagged Costa Rica, inventor, New Hampshire, NH, Tupper, tupperware
2 Comments
Jefferson New Hampshire Inventor & Aeronaut, Prof. Thaddeus S.C. Lowe (1832-1913)
Thaddeus S.C. Lowe was a brilliant inventor.
Even the items on a list of his 'major' accomplishments would seem … Continue reading
Posted in N.H. Historical Markers, New Hampshire Aviation, New Hampshire Inventors, New Hampshire Men
Tagged aeronaut, aerostat, army, artificial, atmospheric, balloon, Civil War, compression, furnace, ice, instruments, invention, inventor, Jefferson, Lowe, Lowe Observatory, machine, Mount Lowe, New Hampshire, railroad, refrigeration, scientist, Thaddeus, Thaddeus Lowe
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New Hampshire’s Burnap "Leghorn Bonnets"
According to the Merrimack NH town history, presented at the Bicentennial celebration in 1946 (written by my grandmother, Mattie Kilborn Webster): “The Burnap sisters, daughters of Merrimack, New Hampshire’s first minister [Jacob Burnap], had other ideas of a woman’s usefulness. It is claimed that in this Town [Merrimack] they invented the making of “Leghorn hats” or bonnets, as they were called. Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, New Hampshire Inventors, New Hampshire Women
Tagged bonnet, Burnap, business, grass, industry, Jacob, John Stark, leghorn bonnet, Merrimack, Molly, New Hampshire Historical Society, reeds, sisters, women
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