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Commercial air travel

The jet age itself can be considered a product of Boeing—first when the company introduced the iconic 707 in 1957, followed by the larger, longer-range 747 in 1968. They provided enough efficiency to market quieter and less chaotic vehicles. According to Boeing archivist Michael Lombardi, air travel is possible. “Their airplane made it possible for anyone on planet earth to board a jet and fly anywhere in the world.”

In the year Started in 1916, Bill Boeing established North America’s first international airmail service in 1919, a public airline route from San Francisco to Chicago in 1927. She assigned the first female flight attendants, all registered nurses, to the trips. The airline was later renamed United Airlines.

Boeing’s turbine work led the company to call the world’s first wind farm in Goldendale, Washington, though the claim is disputed. By the time the first primarily composite jet, the 787, was built, Boeing had moved far from its Seattle roots. – Alison Williams

Automatic car wash

In 1951, the first full-scale car cleaning business opened in Sodo. Eldon and Virginia Anderson’s Five Minute Car Wash installed a new pulley system, sprayers, nozzles and dryers for washing and scrubbing hoods.

Hydroplane

When Slo-mo-shun IV In the year In 1950, it hit 160 miles per hour on Lake Washington, setting a new standard for racing boat design: the Pro.Peeler was partially submerged in water and had a three-point shape perfected by Boeing engineer Ted Jones.

Aluminum frame bicycle

Gary Klein was not the first to build bicycles from aluminum instead of steel. But in his Chehalis shop in the early ’80s, the MIT grad technician reduced their weight by about 20 percent. His welding introduced the diversity of customization and shape into the world of two wheels.

Salmon Cannon

In the year Created in 2014 by Seattle’s Whistle Innovations, the contraption fish can fly over dams. A few years later, a video of a pneumococcal tube taking salmon from one body of water and placing it in another captured the internet.

Hoverboard and Solowheel

Shen Chen was busy.