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November 21, 2013
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photo by Dennis Dalman Ruth Wakefield (played by Zoe Goetz) invented the Toll House chocolate-chip cookie quite by accident one day in 1930 at her inn in Massachusetts.

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by Dennis Dalman

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The United States is a country of ingenious inventors and landmark inventions, a fact underscored by dozens of Pine Meadow Elementary School fourth-graders during a special event Nov. 7.

On that day, in the school’s gymnasium, the students and their teachers created what they called “The Great Inventors Wax Museum.”

All around the gymnasium, standing next to the walls, were student “wax figures” dressed up as famous inventors, mostly American ones but also some from other countries in the long march of history. Each student/inventor stood there “frozen” like waxwork figures until one or more visitors would come up and shake the hand of an inventor. That was the signal for each waxwork to become animated to tell about their lives and their inventions. After each “waxwork” would give a short summary, “it” would again lapse into immobility.

One of the waxworks was Ruth Wakefield, played by Zoe Goetz. A Massachusetts native, Wakefield invented the “Toll House” chocolate-chip cookie in 1930. She and her husband had purchased a tourist lodge, called a “toll house,” in Whitman, Mass. Wakefiield was known for the delicious foods she served to her guests at the inn. One day, she had run out of powdered baking chocolate when making cookies. So she decided to break up a bar of chocolate into little bits and add them to the dough. Instead of melting, as she thought they would, they remained in pieces in the cookies. The new kind of cookie was an instant hit with her visitors and, in short order, with cookie lovers throughout the world. To this day, Wakefield’s accidental invention is known as “Toll House,” with the famous recipe printed on the back of every bag of Nestle’s chocolate chips.

Some of the other waxwork inventors at “The Great Inventors Wax Museum” were Eli Whitney (played by Jacob Schroeder), inventor of the cotton gin; Sir Isaac Newton (played by Noah Lutsen), who explained gravity among many other discoveries; Thomas Edison (played by Alex Ehrlichman), inventor of the light bulb and a thousand other useful items; Alexander Graham Bell (played by Michael Thieschafer), inventor of the telephone; and Johannes Gutenberg (played by Quentin Sigurdson), inventor of the printing press.

photo by Dennis Dalman
Ruth Wakefield (played by Zoe Goetz) invented the Toll House chocolate-chip cookie quite by accident one day in 1930 at her inn in Massachusetts.
photo by Dennis Dalman
Johannes Gutenberg (Quentin Sigurdson) invented the movable-type printing press in Germany in the 15th Century. The invention made possible the widespread advent of literacy throughout Europe and elsewhere.
photo by Dennis Dalman
Thanks to Alexander Graham Bell (Michael Thieschafer), millions of people can now gab and do business on telephones.
Ben Franklin (Ryan Joyce) was a founding father of the United States, an ambassador to Paris, founder of the U.S. Postal Service and an inventor of many things, as well as the discoverer of electricity.
Englishman Isaac Newton (Noah Lutsch) was a mathematical genius who discovered the laws of gravity. He also had big hair.
photo by Dennis Dalman
Most people would still be spending nights with dim candelight or kersosene lamps if it weren’t for Thomas Alva Edison (Alex Ehrlichman), who invented the light bulb, among many other useful objects.
photo by Dennis Dalman
Eli Whitney (Jacob Schroeder) invented the cotton gin, a machine that quickly separated cotton seeds from cotton bolls, a labor-intensive task that had to be done by hand before Whitney’s invention, which gave a boost to “King Cotton” in the American South.

 

 

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