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  2. Category:Inventors from Ohio - Wikipedia

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  3. Larry D. Nichols - Wikipedia

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    Diagram from Nichols' patent showing a cube held together with magnets Pocket Cube animation.. Larry D. Nichols, born 1939 in the United States, is a puzzle designer.He grew up in Xenia, Ohio, and studied chemistry at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, before moving to Massachusetts to attend Harvard Graduate School.

  4. Alfred Mosher Butts - Wikipedia

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    Butts decided to create a game that utilized both chance and skill by combining elements of anagrams and crossword puzzles, a popular pastime of the 1920s. Players draw seven lettered tiles from a pool and then attempt to form words from their letters. A key to the game was Butts's analysis of the English language.

  5. Presidents, moonwalkers and actors: Who are the famous ... - AOL

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    Ohio has produced a slew of famous people from each of its 88 counties.

  6. List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia

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    The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living ...

  7. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Lloyd Trammell (born 1953), U.S. – inventor in the field of dimensional sound processing Richard Trevithick (1771–1833), UK – high-pressure steam engine , first full-scale steam locomotive Franc Trkman (1903–1978), Slovenia – electrical switches, accessories for opening windows

  8. How Cincinnati's famous playing card company secretly ... - AOL

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    Bicycle playing cards, the most popular brand in the world, have been a quiet Cincinnati product, made by the U.S. Playing Card Co. since 1885.

  9. Philip Haas (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Philip Haas (1874–1927) was an American inventor and entrepreneur who lived in Dayton, Ohio. Altogether, he received 31 patents in connection with innovations in the field of plumbing. [1] His work was instrumental to the development of the modern toilet and was featured in the 2004 book Ingenious Inventions How They Work and How They Came to Be.