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James Taylor Bridge, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 1995: Honorary doctorate of music from the Berklee College of Music, Boston, 1995. 2000: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2000. 2000: Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, 2000. 2003: The Chapel Hill Museum in Chapel Hill, North Carolina opened a permanent exhibit dedicated to ...
Duke Homestead State Historic Site is a state historic site and National Historic Landmark in Durham, North Carolina. [2] The site belongs to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural resources and commemorates the place where Washington Duke founded the nation's largest early-20th-century tobacco firm, the American Tobacco Company.
Duke's father, Washington, had owned a tobacco company that his sons James and Benjamin (1855–1929) took over in the 1880s. In 1885, James Buchanan Duke acquired a license to use the first automated cigarette making machine (invented by James Albert Bonsack), and by 1890, Duke supplied 40 percent of the American cigarette market (then known as pre-rolled tobacco).
Johnson invented the Super Soaker water gun, which was the top-selling toy in the United States from 1991 to 1992. In 1980 Johnson formed his own law firm and licensed the Super Soaker water gun to Larami Corporation. Two years later, the Super Soaker generated over $200 million in retail sales and became the best selling toy in North America.
The town was named Taylorsville in honor of General Zachary Taylor who at that time was in Mexico engaged in the Mexican–American War. The land for the town was donated by J.M. Bogle who gave 22 acres (89,000 m 2), William Matheson who gave 13 acres (53,000 m 2) and James James who gave 11 3 ⁄ 4 acres for a total of 46 3 ⁄ 4 acres.
While being most known for inventing the Gatling gun, Gatling invented and patented a number of other inventions.His inventions include a screw propeller and a wheat drill (a planting device) in 1839, a hemp break machine in 1850, a steam plow (steam tractor) in 1857, the Gatling gun in 1861, a marine steam ram in 1862, and a motor-driven plow ().
Maria Hauser [1] [2] was born in about 1836 in North Carolina to a wealthy family. [3] [4] [5] [note 1] Her parents were Anna Johanna Spach and Christian Hauser, [2] and Christian was a miller. Maria showed a keen interest in mechanics as a youth, and spent time familiarizing herself with her father's mill machinery and grandfather's distillery.
James Davis came to the North Carolina province in 1749, answering a call by their Assembly for an official printer to print their laws, legal journals and paper currency. He became the first printer to establish a print shop in that colony and in the process, founded and printed North Carolina's first newspaper, the North-Carolina Gazette.