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 William Coffin Coleman
was selling typewriters when he came across a
gasoline-fueled lamp that gave off
such a bright glow he could actually read by it.
He subsequently bought the company that made the
lamp, and the Coleman Company is now a world
leader in portable camping and other recreational
equipment. |
 Arthur Hoyt
Valentine founded a chain of diners
housed in small, prefabricated buildings, and
then founded his own line of portable,
prefabricated buildings known as Valentine
Diners, which came with everything necessary to
start a restaurant -- the kitchen,
counter, stools, lighting and plumbing fixtures,
and even a bathroom. |
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