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Boston firsts : 40 feats of innovation and invention that happened first in Boston and helped make America great /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Baker's Chocolate, 1765
- Ready made suit, 1826
- Banana shipment, 1871
- Gillette Safety Razor, 1903
- Filene's Automatic Bargain Basement, 1909
- Molasses flood, 1919
- Newspaper, 1690
- Novel, 1789
- Thomas Alva Edison and the legislative voting machine, 1868
- Telephone, 1876
- TV for the deaf, 1972, and the blind, 1990
- Science and engineering
- Smallpox inoculation, 1712
- Ether, 1846
- Subway, 1897
- Kidney transplant, 1954
- Lighthouse, 1716
- Tontine Crescent, 1794
- USS Constitution, 1797
- Boston Public Library, 1854, 1858, 1895
- Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court, 1903
- Madam Alice, 1672
- Hotel, 1829
- YMCA, 1851
- World Series, 1903
- First night, 1976
- Ice, 1806
- Boston cream pie, 1856
- Boston terrier, 1860s1870s
- Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School cookbook, 1896
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, 1988
- Christmas ban, 1659
- Massachusetts State Constitution, 1780
- Gerrymander, 1812
- School integration : Roberts v. the City of Boston, 1849
- Massachusetts 54th Regiment, 1863
- Same-sex marriage, 2003
- Boston Common, 1634
- The Public Garden, 1856
- Metasequoia glyptostroboides, dawn redwood, 1948
- Boston harbor cleanup : the longest, largest effluent outfall tunnel in the world, 1990-2000.