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Many Americans may think of Labor Day as the end of summer or a day of rest, parades, picnics, or store sales. Labor Day is so much more.
In September 1950 the Insurance Company of North America (INA), the largest and oldest company of its kind in the United States, introduced a profoundly innovative idea that transformed the insurance industry.
Today when people hear someone speak of the "great depression" most automatically think of the severe financial downturn beginning in 1929, but for many years prior to that, the term "great depression" conjured up images of the financial distress ushered in by the Panic of 1873.
Patent number 221,360 was issued on November 4, 1879, for a machine that was designed to solve the problem of employee theft - the cash registered.
The Xerox 914 was unveiled on September 16, 1959 and has been a staple in office large and small ever since.
John Merrick was born enslaved on September 7, 1859. He went on to become an entrepreneur, a community leader, and a philanthropist.
New York City's subway system traces its history to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (built in 1908) and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (1902), but on September 10, 1932 the Independent Subway System opened as a combined system
Walter Reuther was born in Wheeling, WV, on September 1, 1907 and rose to lead the United Auto Workers, head the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and helped to coordinate the merger of the AFL-CIO in 1955.
