Inventions

1. The man who invented the Lego bricks was Ole Kirk Christiansen (born 7 April 1891), a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932. In 1934, his company came to be called "Lego", from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". It expanded to producing plastic toys in 1947. Merlin Entertainments operates six Legoland amusement parks, the original in Billund, Denmark, the second in Windsor, England, the third in Günzburg, Germany, the fourth in Carlsbad, California, the fifth in Winter Haven, Florida, and the sixth in Nusajaya, Malaysia.

Legoland in Windsor, England

 2. It is officially declared that Louis Lassen, a small lunch wagon in New Haven, Connecticut, sold the first hamburger in the U.S. in 1900. The dish actually had no name until some sailors from Hamburg named the meat on a bun after themselves years later. A customer ordered a quick hot meal and Louis was out of steaks. Taking ground beef trimmings, Louis made a patty and grilled it, putting it between two slices of toast. 

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 ^3.  Ruth Marianna Handler (November 4, 1916 – April 27, 2002) was an American businesswoman, born to Jewish-Polish immigrants Jacob and Ida Moskowicz, the president of the toy manufacturer Mattel Inc., and is remembered primarily for her role in marketing the Barbie doll. Barbie "was born" on 9th March 1959.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MattelBarbieno1br.jpg

^{4. Three men have wanted to own the title of the first video game maker}. The earliest known interactive electronic game was by Thomas T Goldsmith Jr The game was a missile simulator inspired by radar displays from World War II and was released in 1948.

A bit closer to what we take as a video game today was Alan Turing's, a British mathematician, computer chess program

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbert_Awdry

A specially-built machine for playing Tic-Tac-Toe, Bertie the Brain was created over the summer of 1950 by a Canadian Dr Josef Kates

5  Wilbert Vere Awdry (15 June 1911 – 21 March 1997) was an English Anglican cleric, railways enthusiast and children's author. Better known as the Reverend W. Awdry, he was the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine.The characters that would make Awdry famous and the first stories featuring them were invented in 1943 to amuse his son Christopher during a bout of measles.By 1972 he had written 26 books about the engines

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John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was an American pharmacist, and is best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola. n April 1865 while serving as lieutenant colonel, he was wounded and became addicted to a common painkiller - morphine. He was a pharmacist and as such searched for a cure for his addiction. In 1866, in Columbus, Georgia, he started working on painkillers that would serve as opium-free alternatives to morphine. He next began experimenting with coca and coca wines. The earliest version of Coca-Cola was an alcoholic medicine, but later he started producing it without alcohol. His health didn't recover and he didn't manage to see his success