Comments on: 9 Great Inventions that come from … Connecticut?

By: Nancy Jane

Nancy Jane — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:45:30 +0000

yes…and the wiffle ball!!

By: Joe G

Joe G — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:51:38 +0000

I’ll be moving to Wethersfield in 3 months! I’d love to say something witty about ‘what are the odds’ however it is after all an article about CT inventions. Also having grown up in a small coastal town in NJ that predates the Declaration of Independence by about 140 some odd years I never gave it much thought until my friend from work mentioned how she thought it was odd that the town was older than the Nation (She’s from SF).

By: Ryan B

Ryan B — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:36:20 +0000

Ha! Two Wethersfield-ites one once comment column! As a Newington-ite (which was formerly part of Wethersfield), I’m going to have to throw my vote in for Wethersfield also. :)

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:19:47 +0000

The Wiffle Ball company is just down the street from my office :)

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:14:56 +0000

“EPSN, as we all know, has grown to become the name in sports television and no longer needs to broadcast slow pitch softball or demolition derbies, instead focusing more on the major professional sports: football, baseball, basketball, tennis, golf and, yes, hockey…still.”

Hate to split hairs here, but ESPN (I take it that’s what you’re going for here) no longer carries NHL games. OLN (now Versus) started carrying the games in the 2005-06 season, leaving Barry Melrose with nothing to do except make the odd contribution to SportsCenter and feed his mullet.

By: Hamburglar

Hamburglar — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:04:40 +0000

Just adding #10 – Connecticut invented STEALING CREDIT FOR INVENTING THE HAMBURGER. Burgers were being enjoyed in Athens, Texas over 10 years before Louis ever served one. Just because CT shills petitioned the Library of Congress to give them credit doesn’t make it deserved. The LOC cites no references to support the claim, and since when is the LOC the arbiter of inventions? Isn’t that the patent office?

By: loomis

loomis — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:07:22 +0000

The item about Eli Whitney could possibly also be included in the plagiarism article, depending on what story you believe. Catherine Littlefield Green is often credited with inventing the cotton gin and sharing the idea with a man who was a tutor for her neighbor’s children — Eli Whitney.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:27:03 +0000

As a fellow Wethersfieldian (Wethersfieldite?) I have to agree with Ack. To paraphrase Bill Clinton, from what I understand it sort of depends on what your definition of “town” is. If memory serves me correctly, Windsor was more of an outpost than a town. There was no government, church, or other ecoutrements of a town. Wethersfield was the first with all that (not to mention a thriving economy).

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:16:01 +0000

Did they *actually* forget . . . WIFFLE BALL!!!!!!!!

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:56:46 +0000

Not so fact there, Ack. Windsor (not Windsor Locks) was Connecticut’s first town, established in 1633.