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Charleson
Not really proud of it, but the Civil War was started here.
The first apartment building in America
The first weather station in America
The first paper book covers made in America
The first submarine that sunk an enermy ship (Charleston Harbor)
The first municipal college in America
And I'm sure a few more. These are just the ones I can think of from the top of my head.
And the BEST place to live in America and probably the World.
Jazz
Bananas Foster
Oysters Rockefeller
Popeye's
Cajun Food (Paul Prudhomme)
Poker
Loved New Orleans. Love the people, food and its ambiance.
I believe that the Grasshopper, the Hurricane, Peychaud's Bitters, the po boy,
gumbo and the Sazerac.
Can't get anyone one to make a Sazerac like the ones I had in New Orleans.
Loved New Orleans. Love the people, food and its ambiance.
I believe that the Grasshopper, the Hurricane, Peychaud's Bitters, the po boy,
gumbo and the Sazerac.
Can't get anyone one to make a Sazerac like the ones I had in New Orleans.
Yes on the bitters, the sazerac, and the po boy- never heard of the grasshopper (?).
Gumbo is interesting, because there are actually two types of gumbo- Creole and Cajun. They actually developed independently, and both come from different words- though both mean soup. Kind of odd (think of it as like the word "pizza" having sprung up independently in New York and Chicago and happening to describe very similar dishes).
Also, the Pimm's Cup was invented at Napoleon House (where Napoleon was supposed to stay during his exile- he never made it).
Some interesting stuff here, but I was hoping for more than a list of corporate headquarters, like Target or GM. What I'm looking for are more social/cultural contributions, like Fajitas from Houston or professional baseball from Cincinnati. I'm hoping for instances where a piece of life in a city or region is exported to the nation.
Greater Los Angeles Area:
-Space Shuttle
-Mars Rover
-Aerospace (and the many things i.e. spacecrafts, jets, rocket engines, etc. designed and manufactured from it)
-First private company/spacecraft to space (SpaceX)
-GPS
-Internet
-MySpace
-Hula hoop
-Mattel and Barbie
-Ice resurfacer (the Zamboni)
-Railroad grade crossing signal
-Modern surfing (popularized along with Hawaii and Australia)
-Surf culture/beach culture
-Skateboards and skateboarding
-Skate culture
-"Valley Girls" speech ("Valspeak")
-Car culture
-Hot rods
-Cruising
-Street racing and drag racing
-Lowriders and lowrider culture
-Car tuning and the import/tuner scene
-Drifting (via Japan)
-First stacked freeway interchange
-Movies and television
-Disney (and all that spawned from it)
-Film noir
-The Oscars
-The Emmys
-The Grammys
-Electric guitar
-Beats headphones (Beats by Dr. Dre)
-Folk rock
-Gangsta Rap
-Gangsta Funk ("G-funk")
-Hardcore punk
-Glam metal (“Hair metalâ€)
-Surf rock
-Thrash metal
-Ska punk
-West Coast jazz
-Crip Walk
-Jerkin'
-Krumping
-Locking
-West Coast Swing
-Casual fashion trends
-Premium denim (i.e. designer jeans)
-Surfwear and skatewear
-Velour tracksuit look (Juicy Couture)
-Maxi dresses
-Cropped tops
-UGG (boots)
-Modern theme parks (Disneyland popularized the concept)
-First inverting roller coaster
-First complete (360-degree) looping roller coaster
-"Slam dunk" (Chick Hearn)
-"Air ball" (Chick Hearn)
-Modern gourmet food trucks
-Trader Joe's
-Sriracha sauce
-Sushi (via Japan)
-California roll and other non-traditional rolls
-Fusion cuisine
-Asian fusion cuisine
-California cuisine
-Gourmet pizza ("California-style pizza")
-Open kitchen concept (Spago)
-The notion of a "celebrity chef" (first attributed to Wolfgang Puck)
-Cobb salad
-Chinese chicken salad
-French dip sandwich
-Cheeseburger
-Chili burger
-Hot fudge sundae
-Fortune cookie
-Shirley Temple (cocktail)
-Moscow Mule (cocktail)
-Taquitos
-Monte Cristo sandwich
-Korean taco
-Bacon-wrapped hot dogs
-Preformed crispy taco shell
-Tortilla chips
-Modern burrito
-Bloods
-Crips
-MS-13
-Hells Angels
-Gang culture
-Crack cocaine
-Live televised high-speed car chases
-SWAT
Charleson
Not really proud of it, but the Civil War was started here.
The first apartment building in America
The first weather station in America
The first paper book covers made in America
The first submarine that sunk an enermy ship (Charleston Harbor)
The first municipal college in America
And I'm sure a few more. These are just the ones I can think of from the top of my head.
And the BEST place to live in America and probably the World.
A few more:
First regular scheduled railroad in America
First fire proof building in America
Fire fire insurance company in America
and Hoppin John
Yes on the bitters, the sazerac, and the po boy- never heard of the grasshopper (?).
Gumbo is interesting, because there are actually two types of gumbo- Creole and Cajun. They actually developed independently, and both come from different words- though both mean soup. Kind of odd (think of it as like the word "pizza" having sprung up independently in New York and Chicago and happening to describe very similar dishes).
Also, the Pimm's Cup was invented at Napoleon House (where Napoleon was supposed to stay during his exile- he never made it).
Thanks for the compliment.
No, thank you New Orleans for a great food, drinks and fun. The grasshopper receipe:
3/4oz green creme de menthe
3/4oz creme de cacao
3/4oz light creme
or you can use vanilla ice cream instead of light cream and put it in a blender....yum.
Well, actually it turns out not, but most people don't know this. The ENIAC to most people was the first computer, but it's a little more complicated.
There is a computer at Iowa State University called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer which is now legally regarded as the first computer, at least in the US. There was a US District Court case in 1973 which invalidated the ENIAC patent and determined most of the ENIAC's ideas came from the Atanasoff-Berry Computer/Patent which came earlier. The case is called Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand
Finding 3 was the most controversial, as it assigned the invention of the electronic digital computer by judicial fiat to John V. Atanasoff:
“ 3.1.2 Eckert and Mauchly did not themselves invent the automatic electronic computer, but instead derived that subject matter from one Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff.
Charges of derivation stemmed from testimony and correspondence describing meetings between Atanasoff and Mauchly in December 1940 and June 1941, the first at the University of Pennsylvania where Atanasoff attended a talk given by Mauchly at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on use of Mauchly's harmonic analyzer (a simple analog computer) to speed the calculation of meteorological data to test for periodicities in precipitation, and the second in Ames, Iowa where Mauchly had driven to visit Atanasoff for a period of five days and to examine his progress on a special-purpose computing machine whose construction Atanasoff had described for Mauchly at the prior meeting. (In the discovery process leading up to Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, this device came to be called the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, or ABC; Clifford Berry had been Atanasoff's graduate student assistant in the computer development project in the basement of the physics building at Iowa State College and in 1942 the two of them left Iowa State for positions in war research—Atanasoff in Washington, D.C. and Berry in Pasadena, California.)
All parties agree that Mauchly had opportunity to see the ABC, which was then in a sufficiently advanced state of construction to demonstrate many if not all of its general principles. There is disagreement about (and no definitive evidence regarding) the extent to which Mauchly understood—or indeed was interested in or capable of understanding—the circuit designs incorporated in the machine. The ABC's inventors considered their invention novel and patentable. The same trip to Philadelphia in December 1940 included a visit to the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. to conduct patent searches—so Dr. Mauchly's contention under oath that the ABC's inventors were deliberately hesitant about revealing all of the machine's details would seem to be credible. All parties agreed that Mauchly took away with him no written technical description of the ABC. However, he was familiar enough with the ABC's basic method of operation, particularly the involvement of its rotating capacitor memory drum, to have described it to J. Presper Eckert in 1943 or 1944, and to have recounted it in some detail in a 1967 deposition, over 26 years after having visited the ABC in June 1941.
ENIAC though was the more important architecture to computer, but not the first. Little known fact... Ames, IA and Iowa State University legally, literally, lay claim to the first digital computer.
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