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Almost every state in this country was the birthplace of an invention it should be really proud of. Except maybe Mississippi. Their best invention probably isn’t one to brag about at dinner parties.
Yahoo just put up a list of the best invention from all 50 states. They didn’t really use any specific criteria . . . they just tried to find the most important, clever, useful, or popular thing that came from each state.
The best invention from Tennessee is the Tow Truck: Once cars hit the road, it was quickly apparent we needed a way to get the ones that break down off the road without disrupting everybody else. The inventor Ernest Holmes had his eureka moment after retrieving his buddy’s disabled car using three poles, a pulley, and a chain hooked up to the frame of a 1913 Cadillac, and patented the setup.
Here are some favorites from other states:
The jet ski from Arizona . . . cheeseburgers from Colorado . . . air conditioning from Florida . . . TV from Idaho . . . poker from Louisiana . . . donuts from Maine . . . toilet paper from New York . . . diners from Rhode Island . . . and Atari from Utah.
There aren’t too many embarrassing or weak ones on the list, but there ARE these three:
Headgear for braces from Wyoming . . . the Segway from New Hampshire . . . and Anti-fungal Cream from Mississippi.
Also, oddly enough, the chairlifts we use for skiing come from Nebraska . . . which isn’t exactly a skiing mecca. They were invented by an engineer there in the middle of the summer.
