20 Inventions Connecticut Doesn't Get Enough Credit For

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20 inventions Connecticut doesn't get enough credit forSo it turns out that Gustave Whitehead of Bridgeport, Connecticut, successfully flew an airplane a full two years before Orville and Wilbur Wright. Add this to a long list of some of the country's and world's most significant inventions that originated in Connecticut but for which the state has not received much credit.In a piece written for the February issue of Connecticut Magazine, former Editor Charley Monagan talks about the identity crisis our state has suffered sandwiched between Boston and ...View "20 inventions Connecticut doesn't get enough credit for" on Spundge