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  2. George Roby Dempster - Wikipedia

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    Dempster is known for the invention of the Dempster-Dumpster, a now-commonly-used trash receptacle that can be mechanically emptied into garbage trucks. During the 1910s and 1920s, the Dempster Brothers Construction Company, operated by Dempster and his brothers, built a number of roads and railroads across the Southern Appalachian region. [ 2 ]

  3. Bin tipper - Wikipedia

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    A side-load bin tipper was fitted to a garbage truck as early as 1929, by the Heil company in America. [6] In the 1950s the Dempster Dumpmaster popularized the front-end loader variant, with bins being tipped over the cab of the truck. [7] Both types of integrated bin tipper are now common on municipal refuse collection trucks.

  4. American Book Review - Wikipedia

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    The American Book Review was founded in 1977 by Ronald Sukenick. [6] According to author and essayist Raymond Federman, in his reading with American Book Review in 2007, Sukenick founded the American Book Review because The New York Times had stopped reviewing books by "that group labeled experimental writers", and Sukenick wanted to start a "journal where we can review books that everyone is ...

  5. Garbage truck - Wikipedia

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    In 1937, George Dempster invented the Dempster-Dumpster system in which wheeled waste containers were mechanically tipped into the truck. His containers were known as Dumpsters, which led to the word dumpster entering the language. In 1938, the Garwood Load Packer revolutionized the industry when including a compactor in the truck was ...

  6. History of waste management - Wikipedia

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    The Maya of Central America had monthly rituals for burning garbage. However, access to these early waste management systems was often limited to higher socioeconomic classes. The Industrial Revolution led to a rapid deterioration of sanitation in urban areas, particularly in England.

  7. That Used to Be Us - Wikipedia

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    That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back is a nonfiction book written by Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and author, with Michael Mandelbaum, a writer and foreign policy professor at Johns Hopkins University. They published the book on September 5, 2011, in ...

  8. A History of the Book in America - Wikipedia

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    A History of the Book in America is a five-volume series of scholarly books of essays published 2000–2010 by the University of North Carolina Press, and edited by David D. Hall. [1] Topics include printing, publishing, book selling, reading, and other aspects of print culture in colonial America and the United States.

  9. List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia

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    Dumpster Trademark was cancelled in 2015. [34] [35] Trademarked by Dempster Brothers, Inc. in 1963, dumpster is originally a portmanteau of the word dump and the last name Dempster. It originally appeared in the 1951 product name Dempster Dumpster, [36] while related patents date back to 1937. [37] [38] Multiball