smiley,diesel engine,hashtag, ice cream, barbie doll

1. HISTORY
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2. Smiley
• The State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester purchased
Guarantee Mutual Company of Ohio.
• In an attempt to solve low employee morale, Harvey Ball was employed in
1963 as a freelance artist to create a smiley face to be used on buttons,
desk cards, and posters.
• In less than ten minutes the smiley face was complete.
• He was paid just $45for the design.

3. Harvey Ross Ball

4. Diesel Engine
• It was invented in the 1890s by a German engineer
Rudolf Diesel, and the engine was named after him.
• The diesel engine was designed to improve the
efficiency of internal combustion engines so that more
distance can be traveled.
• Rudolf Diesel committed suicide in 1913 because
he didn't think his invention would be successful.

5. Rudolf Diesel

6. Hashtag
• A hashtag is a user-generated tagging which makes it possible for others to
easily find messages with a specific theme or content.
• The use of hashtags was first proposed by Chris Messina in a 2007.
• First hash tag was "thing for nerds“ in twitter.
• Messina made no attempt to copyright the use.
• He has been credited as the godfather of the hashtag.

7. Chris Messina

8. ICE-CREAM
• A kind of ice-cream was invented in China about 200 BC when a milk and rice mixture
was frozen by packing it into snow.
• An ice-cream-like food was first eaten in China in 618-97AD.
• King Tang of Shang, had 94 ice men who helped to make a dish of buffalo milk, flour
and camphor.
• "Cream Ice," as it was called, appeared regularly at the table of Charles I during the 17th
century.
• It wasn't until 1660 that ice cream was made available to the general public.

9. King Tang of Shang

10. Barbie Doll
• The Bild Lilli doll was a German fashion doll launched on August
12(1955 and -1964).
• Its design was based on the comic-strip character Lilli in German
tabloid newspaper Bild.
• The Lilli doll was the inspiration for Mattel co-founder Ruth
Handler's creation of the Barbie doll and launched in March 1959.

11. Bild Lilli doll

12. The first Barbie doll was introduced in both
blonde and brunette in March 1959