what is going on everyone what was the coolest thing invented in your state most of us learned
about something that was invented wherever we came from while we were growing up talked about
it in school whatever i always found that very interesting you could take a little pride in
something that you know bettered society if it was invented in your state in a way i've had a
few texans bring up how dr pepper was invented or created in their state they always act like
they had something to do with it too it's really weird but anyway which one is the most important
cool or just popular is debatable we had a group discussion here world according to
briggs and we couldn't decide on how we should approach this subject important to society
most mass-produced what was the most interesting in the end we just thought we would decide on a
state-by-state basis just whichever one we thought was the best one this should be fun if you think
we're wrong on what the coolest in your state was let us know in the comments section below there's
no right no wrong answer here this is just kind of an opinion all right let's take a look alabama
alabama is a pretty interesting state for a lot of different reasons but did you know the electric
hearing aid was invented in alabama and it's got an interesting backstory a man named miller rhys
hutchinson spent four years researching this because he had a friend who had become deaf and
mute after a childhood case of scarlet fever he designed worked on it and created it at alabama
medical college in 1898 it's how long they've been around alaska alaska gave us ranch dressing
no kidding a plumber named steve henson was kind of the cook for this remote job site in alaska
in the 1950s and one day i guess they were out of i don't know mustard or other salad dressing
and he decided to spice up buttermilk mayonnaise with some herbs threw it on a salad and it was a
big hit he continued to make it and then he got married him and his wife moved to california and
opened up a restaurant called hidden valley ranch alaska also gave us kayaks i feel that
one needs to be mentioned too arkansas now this one we were kind of on the fence with because
walmart comes from arkansas and that's really not an invention it's just really a business
but it's still got its roots in arkansas but this one may shock some of you movies with sound
started in arkansas a man named freeman owens put sound to film in 1923 and held 200 patents during
his lifetime arizona the taser everyone knows and loves the taser you can watch youtube videos about
people getting tased all the time it's one of my favorite things to do sadly the taser was invented
in arizona by a nasa scientist named jack cover now he developed the taser in the 1970s but it
used gunpowder to actually launch the prongs well nobody was buying it and the business eventually
collapsed well around 1993 two arizona brothers reached out to cover and asked him to help them
develop a taser that could be sold to civilians for personal protection maybe it was the time
or the switch over to compressed air instead of gunpowder either way it started selling and now
it's a big part of law enforcement and people trying to get to their car at the mall in the
middle of the night california the iphone yes in 2007 steve jobs brought us the iphone i should
say a bunch of engineers at apple along with steve jobs pushing brought us the iphone in 2007 is when
it launched and in 2007 time magazine named it the invention of the year colorado the cheeseburger
yes mcdonald's burger king none of them came up with the cheeseburger it was actually denver's
humpty dumpty drive-in they had this crazy idea to put some cheese on meat and then put two pieces of
bun around it i think they had hamburgers already at that point but putting the cheese on it was
just groundbreaking connecticut vulcanized rubber vulcanized rubber doesn't sound like a big deal
to most people but charles goodyear discovered the secret of vulcanizing rubber a process named after
the roman god of fire vulcan and it's not just in tires it's life jackets gloves pencil erasers
all kinds of good stuff use vulcanized rubber a runner-up for this one was the can opener
came from connecticut delaware kevlar kevlar came from dow chemicals and it was invented by
stephanie kwalik she was a long time chemist at dupont and she discovered this synthetic fiber
that's bulletproof i mean it saved a lot of lives saved a lot of injuries i you know could have at
least gotten a couple dozen stitches if it wasn't for a kevlar helmet on a couple occasions actually
but she invented this in the 1960s and now it's everywhere runner-up in delaware was again at
dupont the 1930s it was nylon florida florida gets two and they both have to do with how hot it is
in florida one this is where air conditioning was invented the original version of air conditioning
was just basically blowing air over frozen towels and different fabrics things like that
the second thing that was invented in florida that i think is significant gatorade an assistant for
the university of florida's football team asked university scientists about why so many of their
players were having heat-related injuries and all that they decided it was because electrolytes so
they decided to come up with a drink that would replace electrolytes that drink is gatorade and
the reason they named it that the university of florida's football team is the gators
georgia georgia has quite a few things coca-cola different forms of anesthesia but probably the
most important thing ever created in georgia was the cotton gin the cotton gin was invented by eli
whitney in 1794 he'd been working on it for some time but this amazing machine
separated cotton fiber from the seeds which used to be picked out by hand one little seed at a time
hawaii surfing they attribute hawaiians to surfing there's a lot of discussion on where it may have
actually started but what we know as surfing today is attributed to hawaii i mean they perfected it
and they made it popular and they have some of the best surf in the world too so it only makes sense
idaho idaho invented television well sort of the original blueprints for television were drawn on
a high school chemistry classroom blackboard in idaho by a guy named farnsworth in the early 1900s
but he didn't actually get around to making the device until 1927 when he relocated to san
francisco is anyone else surprised that idaho's invention didn't have something to do with fishing
with explosives illinois the transistor yep in chicago illinois in a hotel room william shockley
developed the first junction transistor in 1948 and if you don't know what that is that's just a
device that turns electric current on and off these days it's much more advanced and
it does everything from turn on lights to open your car doors with your remote
things like that indiana the washing machine we all have a machine doing our laundry these days
because of a dude in indiana his name was william blackstone and he built the first rotary machine
that removed dirt from clothes as a birthday gift to his wife in 1874. that is an incredible gift i
mean he didn't just give it to his wife he gave it to all of us in Iowa the first gas-powered tractor
was invented in Iowa an Iowa farmer named john flick got tired of dragging a steam engine out
to the fields and he came up with the gas-powered tractor Kansas the helicopter i was gonna go with
the icy you know like the Slurpee type thing that was invented in Coffeyville Kansas at a dairy
queen but we're gonna go with helicopters so there was a local inventor type dude in Kansas named rex
medieval he developed the helicopter in 1939. he only got so far with his invention before other
people took it over and kind of ran with it i mean when he was doing it he was only going a couple
feet off the ground and it was always attached to the ground by ropes but he could lift off the
ground with a helicopter and yeah that's where it started in kansas kentucky bourbon and the song
happy birthday but we're gonna go with bourbon i wonder if the two of those had anything to do with
each other but no bourbon was invented in kentucky there's a little discussion on who actually came
up with bourbon and who first distilled it but a lot of people uh attribute it to a kentucky
baptist minister named elijah craig he's the one that everyone thinks actually came up with bourbon
louisiana jazz most this list is actually things you can put your hands on jazz you can't put your
hands on but i think this one's important the first mention of jazz music was in 1916
in an article of the new orleans times where they actually called it jas bands like jazz instead of
a zns anyway that was the first time it was ever mentioned to know who actually invented jazz well
that's impossible but more than a hundred years later new orleans is known as the birthplace of
jazz it's also the birthplace of poker maine the diving suit yeah you gotta have a diving suit if
you can jump in the water in maine it's normally really cold while metal diving suit concepts date
way back to the 17th century leonard decross patented the first rubber diving suit in 1834.
they also invented donuts there maryland bottle caps they invented bottle caps in maryland a man
named william painter invented the bottle cap in 1891. massachusetts facebook yes mark zuckerberg
developed it in his dorm room at harvard he also sort of had to settle with the dudes he kind of
took the idea from but regardless of the backstory facebook was developed at harvard which is in
massachusetts michigan the automobile assembly line now the model t ford was also created
here too but ford wasn't the first automobile assembly line the first one was actually done by
ransom e olds who came up with the oldsmobile and that was in 1901 minnesota rollerblades
now everyone knows that scotch tape and post-it notes came from minnesota but not everyone knows
rollerblades came from minnesota scott and brennan olsen invented rollerblades in 1980.
mississippi pine saw you know the cleaning product pine salt was invented in the magnolia state
chemist harry a coal was living in some forests near jackson mississippi amongst all the pine
trees and started testing it as a disinfectant and deodorizer and now we have pine salt if you
ever spent any time in the military you know everything is cleaned with pine salt missouri
the ice cream cone the first ever ice cream cone was invented but it first showed up at the 1904
st louis world's fair montana the portable heart monitor so for all you with a bad ticker you could
thank montana for it actually helena montana was where it came from norman jeffers holter founded
the holter research foundation and in 1947 he invented the wearable halter heart monitor nice
get out get around nebraska the ski lift yeah the ski lift nebraska is one of the flattest states
we have and they came up with a ski lift well the first time it was put in use was actually in idaho
the reason the ski lift was invented wasn't for skiers it was actually to move bushels of bananas
nevada blue jeans in 1873 levi strauss introduced something that would become like iconic for
america it is probably the most successful article of clothing that the united states has ever had
and probably the world new hampshire the segway yeah you know that funky thing that's replaced
walking or they want it to the segway was invented in manchester new hampshire by dean kaiman he's an
american engineer who's come up with all kinds of crazy stuff right now he's working on a water
purification system that could you know turn swamp water into drinkable water it's pretty impressive
he's done things like the first at-home dialysis machine and a few other things the guy's a genius
and he's still alive a lot of people think he's dead because the guy that bought segway from him
drove a segway off a cliff a year after buying the company new jersey the light bulb thomas edison
gave us the light bulb and his laboratory was in menlo park new jersey not menlo park california
in a two-year time frame in the late 1800s he made over 3 000 different types of light bulbs
trying to make one work the way he wanted it to i should say new mexico the atomic bomb yes
we have new mexico to blame for blowing up couple cities in japan back in the 1940s the creation of
the first atomic bomb was done in alamogordo new mexico new york toilet paper toilet paper comes
to us from the great state of new york in 1857 an entrepreneur named joseph gady developed the
first paper that was designed for your backside north carolina the airplane the wright brothers
first flew and got their business off the ground quite literally in north carolina at kitty hawk
they actually first flew at a place called kill devil hill but kitty hawk sounds nicer when you're
telling the story people from ohio like to argue this one because the wright brothers are from
dayton ohio but they first flew at kitty hawk or kill double hill north dakota the kodak camera yes
it's from north dakota i would have never guessed that one i would have thought you know someplace
with a lot of industry like you know maybe ohio or new york or something like that but north dakota
ohio the traffic light that's not as exciting as superman superman was created in glenville which
is a neighborhood in cleveland in 1933 by joe shuster and jerry siegel they sold the rights to
dc comics in 1938 forget this and thirty dollars that's almost three thousand dollars in today's
money oklahoma the parking meter the parking meter was created in oklahoma city who had a problem
they didn't have enough parking places for all the cars so they were trying to encourage people to
get their shopping done and get out of town so other people could get there so they started
a nickel an hour parkour meter program and had these meters oregon wicked pages so wiki pages
would eventually become things like wikipedia but 1995 organ based programmer ward cunningham
wanted to create a website where the average joe could get on and update pages and add pages to it
and just have it always growing he used the word wiki wiki from the hawaiian term which
means very fast or quick pennsylvania pennsylvania has a lot of really cool things that came out of
there the suspension bridge the first computers ferris wheel and my favorite
bubblegum walter dimer was a full-time accountant in philadelphia when he started toying with the
different recipes for gum and he actually came up with bubble gum gum had already been around but
the actual type of texture and formula they have now where you could actually blow bubbles with it
was invented here in philadelphia rhode island rhode island has a very interesting one diners
they came up with diners they were the first ones to have them but i think the most impactful one
was the automatic sprinkler system that they put in buildings to you know knock out fires and stuff
south carolina the military submarine in 1864 during the civil war horace hunley developed the
first military submarine which was put into use during the civil war south dakota the cyclotron
ernest lawrence invented this particle accelerator 1932 and it was used to discover things like
different elements and cancer treatments tennessee cotton candy cotton candy was developed
in nashville tennessee in 1897 by a dentist i get the feeling he was just trying to get
more customers texas i'm sure a lot of you think that their inventions have something to do with
old west and things like that no they've invented some pretty cool stuff first one i want to tell
you about is the electric typewriter james field smathers invented the first electric typewriter in
1912. they also came up with the first handheld calculator utah airbags automobile airbags had
kind of been on the drawing board since the 1960s but they really weren't practical
until about the mid-1980s when they started installing them in cars vermont sandpaper at least
i should say the sandpaper we know today forms of sandpaper can be traced back to china in like the
13th or 14th century but what we know as sandpaper today was developed in 1834 in springfield vermont
virginia chapstick in the late 1890s dr charles brown fleet known for inventing
health products came up with chapstick in lynchburg virginia his wife was the one
that came up with the idea of selling it like lipstick in a tube and that helped the business
boom washington windows operating system which is on most of our computers originally bill gates
and his band of merry men started microsoft in new mexico but in 1979 they moved to bellevue
washington two years later they came out with the first personal computer operating system
west virginia steamboats steamboats were invented by james ramsey in 1787 on the potomac river
wisconsin the blender if you love margaritas you can thank wisconsin for your margarita wyoming so
they have two interesting ones one i'm not sure if it fits but we're gonna go with it
national parks the first national parks were in wyoming they were sort of placed there i wouldn't
say the whole idea was cooked up there but one thing they did invent wyoming was headgear you
know that weird thing you put on your head if you have braces if you had to wear one of those in the
1970s or 80s you could thank john divine for his 1924 invention all right that's today's video hope
you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information out of it a little bit different i thought this
one was interesting but i hope you guys enjoyed it everybody have a great day be nice to each other