In 1914, Cleveland installed the nation’s first electric traffic signal on the corner of 105th and Euclid Avenue. Lester Wire designed the light and it only had red and green lights. Although the yellow light was not...
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Kendra Kuhar
For the Love of Human Ingenuity: Understanding the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894
Once upon a time we wrote about the whale oil myth—the mythical notion that due to the free market/exchange, the discovery of petroleum directly saved the whales! This rather romantic notion simply isn’t true; not as an...
Sarah Simonovich