Posts Tagged ‘innovation’
Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company: Eighty-Four Years in Cambridge (Part 1) by Alden S. Foss
Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company: Eighty-Four Years in Cambridge By Alden S. Foss The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company was founded in 1880. Based on a survey made by the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, it is the oldest of the dozen largest industrial concerns continuously in business in Cambridge. It is now…
Read MorePast “Whose Kendall?” History Café and Self-Guided Tour
Join us Tuesday, 9/12/17 at Cambridge Brewing Company for a Self-Guided Tour & Talk about this dramatically changing neighborhood of Cambridge with Daniel Berger-Jones from Cambridge Historical Tours and Peter Abair from Mass Bio. Cambridge Brewing Company is located at 1 Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02139. Click here to buy tickets Check back soon for…
Read MoreCars in Cambridge by Doug Brown
With air bags, anti–lock brakes, traction control, and GPS, the Uber driver of today operates a very different machine from the family chauffeur’s open–topped horseless carriage of 100 years ago. But regardless of the generation, Cantabrigians have always loved working on cars. Today that tinkering is just as likely to occur in a university lab…
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