Colin McEnroe Show: Connecticut Inventions
Wiffle Balls. Can openers. The ice making machine. All were born in Connecticut.
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Diana McCain
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When you consider the range of every day products invented in Connecticut, you almost feel a little embarrassed never to have invented anything. Well, I do, anyway.
I've lived here all my life in the Tigris and Euphrates of American ingenuity, and I've never invented squat. My best idea was a telephone attachment that would allow you to hear the next ten seconds of speech uttered after the other person hung up the phone by somehow keeping the line open. You would learn about what the other person really thought of you. In fact, I'm not sure human affairs could withstand the damage done by my invention.
My other idea was a cocktail party helmet that utilizes the radio technology of a delay and dump button. So that if you said something untoward or regrettable, you could have 20 seconds to hit a dump button before anyone heard it.
What are you inventions? Or what are some Connecticut inventions that you'd like to talk about? Join the conversation! Leave your comments below, e-mail colin@wnpr.org or Tweet us @wnprcolin.
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There are so many things throughout the country that have a Connecticut connection.
-Diana McCain
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Listener E-mail from Carol
It was Dr. Larch, not Homer Wells that was addicted to ether.
Listener E-mail from Cynthia
Don't forget Silly Putty!!
Listener E-mail from Tom
I may have remembered this wrong, but wasn't Pez candy made in CT? You know...the one with the collectable dispensers with various heads on the top.
Also, you need to give a shoutout to Charlton Comics from Derby. There was a great story about it in the New Haven Advocate a couple years ago. Low budget comics that were never as popular as Marvel or DC, but a few of the characters in the superhero line were adapted and altered to become the heros in The Watchmen, the famous comic that came out as a much heralded movie a couple years ago.
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