T-1443 ObAmA Wisconsin

• Wisconsin




• 1854 – Grand Old Party Began (then the floodgates of goodstuff bagan)


• 1856 – First kindergarten


• 1868 – First typewriter


• 1878 – First ice cream sundae


• 1882 – First commercial hydro electric plant on Fox River


• 1884 – First Ringling Brothers circus


• 1891 – First round silo


• 1908 – First 4 wheel drive vehicle factory in Clintonville (ever been there Slick?)


• 1910 – First successful outboard engine


• 1912 – First speedometer


• 1915 – Oldest radio station, WHA


• 1918 – Developed highway number system NS odd, EW even


• 1927 – First snowmobile patent, Eliason


• 1935 – First automatic clothes dryer


• 1949 – First telephone answering machine


• 1967 – First Super Bowl champion


• Fyi – the Badger state is not named for the animal. It was named for miners who had to “live like badgers" in tunnels burrowed into hillsides. University of Wisconsin’s mascot is named Buckingham U. Badger.