INVENTIVE OKLAHOMA TRIVIAChester Gould was born in Pawnee in 1900. He created the comicstrip Dick Tracy. He started drawing sports comics for the
This is the largest mural devoted to Dick Tracy. It is located in Pawnee. Staff photo.
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City Daily Oklahomaian (1921-1923) while in
law school. He also drew comics for Hearst newspapers. In 1931, he sold
his comic strip "Dick Tracy" to the Chicago Tribune and New
York Daily
News. He devoted the rest of his life drawing and writing "Dick Tracy."
His comic strip inventions such as wrist video cameras and hand-held
video cameras were used as models for real life aids to policeman He
retired in 1977.Gould passed away in 1985.
Bob Dunn from Beggs invented the electric guitar in 1935.
Sequoyah’s Cabin is located in Akin. Sequoyah is the teacher who invented a syllabify, making it possible to read and write in Cherokee.
NEXRAD (Next Generation Weather Radar) was invented at the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. The National Weather Service Forecast Office, home of the Operation
Facility for the NEXRAD program, is located at OU.
The aerosol can was invented in Bartlesville.
The
shopping cart was invented in Ardmore by Sylvan Goldman, of the
Standard Food Markets and Humpty Dumpty Stores. The shopping cart was
first used in Oklahoma City on June 4, 1937.
The first YIELD sign was used in Tulsa, designed by Clinton Riggs. It was first used in Tulsa, on a trial basis.
Credit
for the parking meter is given to Carl C. Magee, Oklahoma City,
patented it as “coin controlled parking meter.” It was first installed on May 13, 1935 in Oklahoma City.