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December 5, 2022
Opinion: Why I Love Manchester
"Manchester has always been home to innovation. From the time that Samuel Blodget constructed the first “Amoskeag Canal” in the early 19th century, which led to the creation of Amoskeag Manufacturing and made Manchester a textile powerhouse, our city has always been a hub of innovation. Other innovations that have come out of Manchester include the SpeeDee Service System, (created for McDonald’s restaurants by the McDonald brothers) and a system of using pigments instead of dyes to color nail enamel, (a revolutionary system created by Revlon, which was founded by Charles and Joseph Revson of Manchester along with Charles Lachman). The first video game console, licensed to Magnavox and Introduced as the Odyssey Home Game System, as well as the popular game Simon, were invented by Manchester resident Ralph Baer. More recently, we’ve had companies such as PillPack, that introduced a convenient and much safer way for people to take meds. (PillPack was purchased by Amazon in 2018), as well as a few companies founded by inventor Dean Kamen, including Segway and DEKA Research. And in the near future, a biofabrication cluster will be established in the Millyard. In other words, Manchester is to become the place where human organs are manufactured, potentially saving lives and wiping out the list of people waiting for organ transplants."