Lesser Known Inventors

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Bikini

1947 - Louis Réard, a Parisian engineer, introduces an even smaller suit—made from just 30 inches of fabric—and calls it the bikini after Bikini Atoll, the Pacific Ocean site famous for hosting the first atomic bomb test on July 1 of the previous year.

High Five

1955 French Movie - Breathless ??
Women's volleyball in 60s
Not Derek Smith, Louisville
Not Glenn Burke
Not Murray State player (just made up, player and school picked at random)

Seattle Dog

Hadley Longe
Sold grilled vegetarian bagels from a pushcard in Carbondale Illinois
Moved to Seattle and ran deli cart between J&M and Central Tavern
“I didn’t want to sell out and be a hot dog vendor,” Long said. But he had these bialy sticks, essentially bagels shaped like hot dog buns. He put cream cheese and a hot dog on them.
Over time, other vendors started putting cream cheese and grilled onions on their hot dogs. It got the name Seattle dog.

Hawaiian Pizza

Sam Panapoulos

Frozen Margarita

In 1971, Mariano Martinez, Jr. adapted a Slurpee machine to create the world's first frozen margarita machine at Mariano's Hacienda restaurant in East Dallas

Big Mac - Jim Delligatti, in the kitchen of Delligatti's first McDonald's franchise, located on McKnight Road in suburban Ross Township; stated later he did not invent the Big Mac but merely copied the double deck hamburger marketed by the Big Boy hamburger chain since the 1940s. The Big Mac debuted at the McDonald's owned by Delligatti in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, on April 22, 1967, selling for US$0.45 (equivalent to $4.11 in 2023). It was designed to compete with Big Boy Restaurants' Big Boy hamburger. Eat'n Park was the Pittsburgh area's Big Boy franchisee at the time. The Big Mac proved popular and it was added to the menu of all U.S. McDonald's restaurants in 1968.

Filet o'Fish - Lou Groen, Cincinnati franchise, in appeal to Catholics during Lent - Originally halibut but now a highly sustainable Alaskan Pollock