Our first table syrups in the 19th century were made of corn syrup and molases, maple syrup was too expensive and hard to get. A Minnesota grocer named P.J. Towle wanted to bring maple syrup to ...

He had been stepping around a billiard table all evening ... having attached the pedometer to a piston rod. These 19th-century hacks presage a 21st-century example: In response to insurance ...