invention

We’ve all been there—bundled up for winter, feeling relatively warm… except for those two body parts that refuse to cooperate: your ears and your nose. Well, back in 1873, a 15-year-old from Farmington, Maine, decided he was done suffering and came up with a revolutionary invention.

Nearly 80 years ago, a man from Maine used science and happenstance to invent one of the most useful appliances in modern history.

Have you ever wanted to take the family lunch on the water on a floating picnic table? Lon Cameron from Winthrop did and viola! The motorized floating picnic table was born.

What would the world be like without smart people? I often shrug off technology because it's making us lazier. When it's applied to important jobs like chilling your beer in record time, I wholly embrace it.