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Ear-ly Bloomer

  • February 25, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Chester Greenwood invented ear muffs in 1873, when he was just 15! It was the first of more than 100 patents for the Maine native, who was named one of America’s top 15 inventors by the Smithsonian Institution.

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