The inventor was a bunch of chocolate brownies, descendants of the original Palmer House Brownie, Whitcomb Judson of Chicago, although their initial design, “closure with closure”, was a little different from the zippers we know today. This was a complex set of hooks and eyelets, designed primarily for shoes. In theory, it made shoelaces and boots much faster. In practice, he was a bit moody.
Every time you switch channels from the comfort of your couch, you can thank an Illinois resident. It was in Chicago that Zenith Radio Corporation developed the world's first television remote control. After observing the difficulties experienced by World War I soldiers who needed a certain blood group for a transfusion, Bernard Fantus, a doctor from Chicago, came up with a better idea. The first commercially successful car radio was designed and manufactured in 1930 by the Galvin Manufacturing Company of Chicago.
George Pullman was one of Chicago's greatest industrialists, remembered for his luxurious train cars and his opportunistic and often degrading labor practices for blacks. Among Chicago's many contributions to sports, business picnics, and American culture is softball. Although a carpet sweeping device was introduced a few years earlier, Chicago inventor Ives W. invented the first manual vacuum in 1869. After working as an editor at WGN in Chicago, former teacher Irna Phillips created a daily serialized program aimed at women, “Painted Dreams”, which was about a widowed matriarch from a large Irish-American family.
When demand among Virginia farmers exceeded McCormick's ability to build the device on the family farm, he went first to a New York factory and, finally, to Chicago to mass produce them. But his persistent sense that farmers were being deceived by rural merchants gave rise to the idea that Chicago would remember his name. Although skates were first introduced in London in 1735, the Roller Derby was invented in 1935 by Leo Seltzer, a Chicago businessman who booked events at the old Chicago Coliseum, just south of the Loop. The original reactor, after its initial operation at West Stands, Stagg Field, of the University of Chicago, was dismantled and reassembled at a remote site southwest of Chicago, where it provided useful information to the atomic energy program for more than a decade.
The Solo Cup company opened its doors on the South Side of Chicago in the 1930s, manufacturing cone-shaped paper cups. In 1992, the Chicago City Council banned the sale of spray paint in an attempt to end graffiti. United Airlines' headquarters were located in Chicago because air mail routes were established on the basis of railway lines. A crane tore off the last frozen feet left between the accumulated wastewater that accumulated in the center of the city, on the Chicago River, and the 45-mile-long Chicago Sanitary and Naval Canal, which flowed into the great rivers of the plains.
Located at the gates of the Prairie as the West opened up, Chicago made a lasting contribution to the way of life of Americans by taking advantage of demographic and technological trends. From Chicago, one of several providers of so-called sectionalized housing sold prefabricated structures shaped like balloons to Western settlers.
