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Einstein's Refrigerator
and Other Stories from the Flip Side of History
by Steve Silverman
    

Lindbergh's
Artificial Heart
and More Fascinating True Stories
from Einstein's Refrigerator
by Steve Silverman
    
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  • Fartman
    • You can really earn a living releasing foul-smelling gas!
     
  • The Collyer Brothers
    • But where was Langley?
     
  • Michael Malloy
    • Possibly history's most bizarre murder scheme.
     
  • The Rooster Booster
    • The feathers will be flying!
     
  • Ballooning
    • Up, up and away in my beautiful lawn chair…
     
  • The Great Boston Molasses Disaster
    • History's stickiest disaster.
     
  • Citicorp Tower
    • Watch our for the Leaning Tower of Citibank.
       
  • The Lake Peigneur Disaster
    • And away goes the lake down the drain!
     
  • The Rainman
    • Don’t wish for too much of a good thing…
     
  • Kitty Litter
    • What’s the scoop?
     
  • Einstein’s Refrigerator
    • He really did design modern iceboxes.
     
  • The Foot Thingy
    • Whatchamacallit?
     
  • America’s First Subway
    • It was one big secret.
     
  • Vaseline
    • It’s yummy for your tummy!
     
  • Hedy Lamarr
    • Not exactly your typical nerdy inventor with a pocket protector.
     
  • The Zipper - (different story from the one on the web site!)
    • Hey!  Your fly is open!
     
  • Nikola Tesla
    • He makes Thomas Edison look like a dummy. 
     
  • Mike the Headless Chicken
    • He really was a chicken running around with his head cut off.
     
  • George Washington
    • He was really the 9th President of the United States!
     
  • Emperor Norton I
    • The USA’s first and only emperor.
     
  • Pennies for College
    • A college education for just pennies.
     
  • Fu-Go
    • The strangest weapon of World War II.
     
  • Bat Bombs
    • The other top-secret weapon.
     
  • Titanic
    • The curse of Violet Jessop.
     
  • Poon Lim
    • How did he manage to survive?
     
  • Mount Pelée
    • How an election killed the entire electorate.
     
  • Gadsby
    • An E-less novel.
     
  • Niagara Falls
    • The day that the Falls actually went dry.
     
  • The Al-Kuwait
    • How Donald Duck helped save the day.
     
  • The Baby Derby
    • How many babies can a woman have in ten years?
  • The U.S. Camel Brigade
    Something seems just a little out of place here.
     
  • The U.S. Camel Brigade
    Something seems just a little out of place here.
     
  • The Flubber Fiasco
    You just can’t keep a good toy down.
     
  • Philo Farnsworth
    How one boy changed the world…
     
  • The Great Toilet Paper Shortage
    • Blame it all on Johnny Carson.
     
  • Fight!
    • Why you should never scream that word in a crowded room.
     
  • The Exploding Whale
    • Son of Blubber takes flight…
     
  • The Peshtigo Fire
    • You’ve never heard of it because a cow stole the spotlight.
     
  • The Horrors of DHMO
    • This stuff is just downright scary.
     
  • The Matchstick Man
    • The most unusual instrument collection in the world.
     
  • Eveready Batteries
    He gave the company away to work on model trains. 
  • Murderous Mary
    The day Mary the Elephant was hanged.
     
  • Pez
    • Available in Eucalyptus, Peppermint, and Chlorophyll flavors!
     
  • Pink Flamingos
    • So tacky, yet so cool.
     
  • Barbequing
    • Who really needs lighter fluid?
     
  • Lindbergh’s Artificial Heart
    • He was more than a famous pilot.
     
  • Reginald Fessenden
    • The world’s first radio broadcaster.
     
  • Photographic Film
    • Eastman-Kodak’s big loss.
     
  • The Photocopier
    • The invention that nobody wanted.
     
  • Neil Armstrong
    • Was he really the first to walk on the moon?
     
  • AstroNOTS
    • Did they really have the right stuff?
     
  • Mayday at 41,000 Feet
    • Watch those units...
     
  • Sir Alfred
    • He’s still there.
     
  • The Miracle Man
    • Almost does count…
     
  • 1904 Olympics
    • These games were a sideshow in every sense.
     
  • Ota Benga
    • The guy that lived in a cage at the zoo.
     
  • Charles Ponzi
    • Double your money in 90 days.
     
  • The New English
    • Good luck understanding this one.
     
  • Murphy’s Law
    • It figures.
     
  • Arbor Day
    • A forgotten tradition.
     
  • The Electric Pickle
    • Lets hear it for pickle power!
     
  • Hiroo Onoda
    • Hey!  The war is over.
     
  • Rubber Duckies
    • The quack heard around the world.
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