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Inventions and Trampolines Shaped by Iowa Innovations
A survey of Iowa linked inventions highlights Otto Rohwedder bread slicer and George Nissen trampoline. It traces Rohwedder from early designs to 1928 patenting and Kellogg style rollouts, and Nissen’s Cedar Rapids upbringing to Olympic recognition and global manufacture.
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Paula Johnson
National Museum of American History
the Gazette
St. Joseph
Davenport
Illinois
Rohwedder
Johnson
Chillicothe Baking Company
Chillicothe
St. Louis
Gustav Papendick
Tom J. Korn
George Nissen
Cedar Rapids
Nissen
University of Iowa
Three Leonardos
Mexico
U.S
The
Leonardos
Gazette
Navy
Tom Ecker
Nissen Trampoline Company
International Gymnastics Federation
Atanasoff
Mauchly
Ames
Berry
ABC
Iowa State University
Iowa State College
Pearl Harbor
California
National Defense
Naval Ordnance Laboratory
Washington, D.C
Richard Trexler
J. Presper Eckert
ENIAC
Honeywell Inc
Sperry-Rand Corp
Honeywell
Earl Larson
Eckert
Nissen Trampoline Co
27Th Avenue
Otto Frederick Rohwedder
Bench’s Bakery
Smithsonian Institution