Gustave Whitehead, a man of great mechanical skill in the creation and construction of lightweight engines, claimed to have made the first powered flight in his Number 21 that supposedly achieved 60m above ground for 800m. Still disputed to this day, with the waters made murkier by the fact that thirty years ago a replica successfully made 20 successful flights of up to 100m, it was an important day in aviation history as it certainly would have inspired more, better, avaiation inventors to build powered planes that would actually fly and, not much later, carry cargo.

This appeared in the Atlanta Journal for the first time:

And it wasn’t long after that (about 30 years) that it was being bottled in a standard process using a standard (and distinctive) package (bottle). While often known for its marketing, Coca Cola was an early pioneer in bottling and distribution — which should be obvious from the fact that it in the last 130 years the enterprise grew from a business with a single production plant limited to servings at local soda fountains to a global enterprise that serves up almost 2 Billion beverages (across all its brand lines) daily. And its continued ability to innovate is what keeps it a market leader.