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from the woods of upstate NY, now reside in central west florida, in what I call a city, but is pretty rural to the rest of you.

 

I have to come back and edit this one, in light of Juggernaut's post...

 

I was born in Dutchess country NY, and lived there my entire life until just a few months ago.

 

noteable points of interest off the top of my head:

 

FDR presidential estate

Vanderbuilt (oil baron) estate

Lafayette and Washington met there in the revolution and turned the war around. LOTS of revolutionary war history there.

the atomic bomb had part made there

charles manson has called it home

Vassar college (HOT girls, lemme tell ya)

Culinary institue of America

home to the governor of NY (I was his neighbor before I moved)

some of the best trout waters in the USA, often in field and stream

third highest per capita gun owning county in america

nolan ryan's minor league team and stadium is there

many many famous people live around town

home to the band soundgarden

one of the best small concert clubs is there "the chance theater"

Many of the most famous race horses have and do call it home

timothy o'leary estate is there (turn on, tune in, drop out.....what a rocket scientist)

 

 

I just HAD to outdo you JUGGS!!! I can keep going, too! Was sad to leave there, really...just trying to show why.

 

 

where I live now in florida? about the only thing I can say is there are no minorites (not that that matters much to me, but there are no illegals infesting the work force there), and I can walk twenty minutes in any direction and go bass fishing....we have manatees, tarpon, gators, and well, old people. oh yeh, and tornadoes and hurricanes.....WOO HOO. Hell of a trade up, aint it?

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Owosso, Michigan

 

Home of the Curwood Castle.

 

The 1225 Steam Engine (The one used to model the polar express)

 

Was also the home of the Author of "Not without my Daughter"

Betty Mahmoody

 

In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised.

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Binghamton, NY

 

Home of Rod Serling (Guy who created "The Twilight Zone")

 

Birth place of the IBM Corporation

 

Home of the original Dicks Sporting Goods, and the founder

 

Mentioned in a few TV shows and movies (To name a few: In the movie "Rounders", a poker game is played against some state troopers here. Not actually filmed here though. In "The Sopranos", had a mistress whose character was from Binghamton)

 

If you look up "Binghamton, New York" on Wikipedia, you can see the hotel I work in, in the picture of downtown :super: .

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Niceville Florida....yes NICE

Born on Eglin AFB while my dad was stationed there awaiting his trip to Nam.

 

Raised and still reside in the fina state of North Carolina! Three hour drive west to the beautiful Appalachian Mts...two hour drive east to the Atlantic coast!

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see? we all have some history at home!!! too cool!

 

maxwell: I have flown over the trinity site, but I may actually take the time to go visit it personally this visit to AZ. nice avatar! that was the day we won the 20th century, and the first in flight thing was the minute.......right on man.

 

I see IBM was mentioned.....back home, they made one of the rarer M1 carbines at IBM plant, in poughkeepsie. numrich arms and auto ordnace resides about two mile from the county line, as well, just over yonder.....

 

on a related note, one of the largest private collections (or three) still reside back home, and the largest colt pistol collection holder moved out of the state because of laws about two to three years ago. so it aint all that great a place.....

 

we all have a lot of history or relevant history at home, its just a matter of knowing what it is......

 

by the way, my avatar....that gun was made about 40 miles from where I was born in poughkeepsie, NY. It was bored and finished in troy, NY, by a "nelson lewis" in about 1888, and it was a pinnacle piece of his career. another bit of home. I regret trading it for a huge profit to this day.

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Dayton, Ohio

 

Home of the Wright Brothers (first in flight)

 

and honestly... not much else that is exciting...

Dayton as well. You might be suprised what has came from Dayton. I did a quick search and this is what came up. I thought I would also mention a couple things that aren't on the list I found.

The AA-12 shotgun :super: and the internet search engine. Check this list out! Some of the stuff had to have been a thanks to Wright-Patterson Airforce Base. Laser weapons, cash register, LCD screen, step ladder........

 

Vincent C. Apple

 

Isolated Home and Farm Electric Lighting System

 

John Balsley

 

Stepladder

 

John Birden and Kenneth Jordan

 

Radio Isotopic Thermoelectric Generator for Spacecraft

 

Frank Caldwell

 

Controllable Pitch Propeller

 

Carl Carlson

 

Microfiche

 

E. R. Churchwell

 

Collapsible Portable Crib

 

Leland Clark

 

Human Heart-Lung Machine

 

Luzern Custer

 

Motorized Wheelchairs

 

Tom Edwards

 

Walker Attachment for Wheelchairs

 

Ermal T. Fraze

 

Pull Tab and Pop Top Beverage Cans

 

Arthur Frei

 

Ice Cube Tray with Ejector Mechanism

 

Harvey Dunn Geyer

 

Automotive & Refrigeration Equipment

 

Lt. Col. Roger Gounard

 

Smart Fan (operates based on changes in temperature)

 

Barrett Green

 

Micro-Encapsulation

 

Wayne Hardy

 

Goniometer (measures location of thalamus for surgery)

 

Max Issacson

 

Manually Operated External Heart Machine and Expiratory Valve

 

John Janning

 

Liquid Crystal Alignment Methodology (LCD liquid crystal display)

 

C. Francis Jenkins

 

Movie Projector, Movie Camera, Movie Film and Movie Theatre

 

Jacob O. Joyce

 

Hydraulic Lifting Jack

 

Warren Kampf

 

Multiple Array Continuous Inkjet Printer

 

Charles F. Kettering

 

Automobile Starter and over 300 other patents

 

F. D. Klein

 

100 Octane Aviation Fuel

 

Fred Kohnle

 

Price Tag Affixing Machines

 

Geoffrey Kruesi

 

Directional Compass with Dual Radio Beam Triangulation System

 

Sidney Lambden

 

Flexible Radiator Hoses and Wire Impregnated Sweeper Hoses

 

William Lear

 

Learmatic Electrostatic Gyroscope

 

George H. Leland

 

Lighted Scoreboard, Leland Refractor

 

E. F. McDonald

 

Solenoid

 

William McHose

 

Incentive Stamps

 

Thomas Midgely

 

Ethyl-Leaded Gasoline

 

Dr. Sanford Moss

 

Airplane Supercharger

 

Tom Payne

 

Official Building Mail Chutes

 

Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky

 

Electrically Stimulated Ambulatory Motion

 

James Ritty

 

Cash Register

 

Daniel Webster Schaeffer

 

Gas Masks

 

Henry Seeler

 

Portable Breathing Resuscitator

 

Albert H. Smith

 

Computing Scale for Butchers and Grocers

 

Floyd Smith

 

Parachute

 

John P. Tytus

 

Continuous Rolling of Wide-Strip Steel Manufacturing Process

 

Orville & Wilbur Wright

 

Airplane, Controls for Rudder, Elevator, Wing Lift Shape

 

 

 

Other Inventions:

 

Airplane Ejection Seats

Artificial Heart

Artificial Kidney

Automobile Air Bags

Bionic Organs

Black Light

Blind Solo Flight

Carbonless Copy Paper

Chrome Plating

Computerized Aircraft Loading System

Double Glass Windows

Electric Cash Register

Filter Cigarettes

Fixed-Focus Headlights

Frost-proof freezer

Fuzzbuster & Radar Detectors

Glass Photographic Negatives

Ice Cream Cone

Instant Blood-Glucose Level Testing

Laser Weapons

Liberty Engine

Night Serial Photography

Nuclear Powered Pacemaker

Quick Process Malleable Iron

Room Air Conditioner

Time-Released Medications

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the computer that defeated kasparov was burned at IBM research by my father in east fishkill, ny.... :) I can go into a list of shit made there, some of which I cant actually say was made there, come to think of it. Hows about the hubble space telescope's brain?

 

search engine, NO FAIR!!!! NO FAIR!!!!

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