Category: Not-So-Famous
OK, so you probably won't read about these people in too many history books, but each of them has contributed in some quirky way to the betterment (?) of society.
- John Balsley (Invented the folding stepladder)
- L.M. Berry (Invented the Yellow Pages - disputed)
- Charles Feltman (First person to put a hot dog on a bun)
- Stephen Gerrard (Hybridized the Honeydew Melon)
- F. Carlyle Harmon (Invented Disposable Diapers)
- Walter Hunt (Invented the Safety Pin)
- Reuben Kulakofsky (Created the Reuben sandwich)
- Antoine Augustin Parmentier (Popularized potatoes in Europe)
- Otto Rohwedder ("Father of Sliced Bread")
- Charles Samson (Beheaded King Charles I of England)
- Lester Wire (Invented the Electric Traffic Light)
- Frank Zamboni (Invented the Zamboni Machine for cleaning ice during hockey games)