HISTORY Ironically, it was during the American Depression when Monopoly, a game of wealth and finance, became popular. Charles Darrow devised of a buying and selling real estate game with Atlantic City’s street names. He sold each hand-painted oil-cloth game for $4. When it caught on, and he could not keep up with the demand for manufacturing, he wroteContinue reading “A Real Life Game of Monopoly”
Monthly Archives: November 2014
So Many Databases, So Little Time
How Cool Is This
In honor of Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day, celebrated on November 15th, you may want to know how your refrigerator operates. HISTORY Refrigerators are a modern invention. Until the advent of wide-scale electricity, keeping food cold had been a challenge for civilizations. Even as late as the 1800s, ice continued to be the major method for cooling.Continue reading “How Cool Is This”
Blowing in the Wind
Autumn is a beautiful season: waning days of warmth, cool nights, and dramatic color. All is blissful until the leaves fall from the trees covering the ground with a thick mass of debris. So begins the raking…or blowing. The Invention Although not confirmed, it widely is believed that the leaf blower was invented by Dom Quinto inContinue reading “Blowing in the Wind”