The first Frisbees were pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company in Connecticut. In the 1950s, the pie tins were changed to plastic plates. The name then became the Flying Saucer, but later changed to Frisbee.

The first elevator was built in the palace of King Louis XV. It only traveled up one floor, and was hand powered by men inside the chimney.

McQueen died in 1980 from a rare form of lung cancer.

George Gamow. Gamow, who died in 1968, was a physicist, who published "Thirty Years that Shook Physics".

Invented in 1939.

His middle name, Lionel, is the source of the Lionel Train brand name.

He was an undertaker, and legend has it, he developed the automatic switch in 1889, to stop competitors from getting his work!

Ben also holds a lot of firsts - first U.S. ambassador, first political cartoonist, first American philosopher, organized the first fire department, and on and on.

On April 6, 1914, Hiram Percy Maxim proposed the formation of the American Radio Relay League.