by Criswell | Amazing Americans, Famous People, Inventions, Sports
In 1891, while he was teaching at the YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts, James Naismith received instructions from his boss. Naismith was given 14 days to come up with an indoor game that students could play during the harsh New England winters. So,...
by Criswell | Amazing Americans, Famous People, Inventions
First, Wilbur and Orville Wright bought a small printing press and started a weekly newspaper in Dayton, Ohio. Then, they opened a bicycle shop. But they wanted to do something else: they wanted to build a flying machine. And that’s what they did. To get...
by Criswell | Amazing Americans, Famous People, Inventions
In 1902, fresh out of college, a young man named Willis Carrier went to work in Buffalo, New York at a company that made equipment for factories. Within a few years, he had invented something he called, “An Apparatus for Treating Air,” better known today as air...