After serious thinking micky wrote :
In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 29 Dec 2020 13:18:19 -0600, Dean Hoffman
wrote:

On 12/29/20 12:50 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 12/29/2020 09:58 AM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
* Blame Nebraskans.* A list of some things invented
in Nebraska:
https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/12-things-invented-in-nebraska/collection_9317c5df-fcee-5a73-9891-6e4c1d3cabf7.html#anchor_item_5


*** Some big city* type must've written this.* There is no mention of
center pivots.

https://www.tlirr.com/news/history-of-the-pivot/
https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farmin.../water_05.html
https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farmin.../water_09.html
https://www.invent.org/inductees/frank-zybach

Apparently Zybach grew up in Nebraska but headed west to Colorado before
his brainstorm. Daugherty bought the rights.

I searched for Colorado inventions and didn't find them on the sites
that showed up. Here's an example:
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/colorado/co-inventions/
Maybe it's because there are so few sold relatively speaking.

Apparently tampons were invented there.

Around 1973, I went to Europe and visited an ex-traveling partner in
Belgium. She was starting her summer trip and her boyfriend backed out
so I went. Strictly platonic, not my type. In Czechoslovakia, she got
somewhat sick so we went to a small-town hospital. Floors made of grey
cement, almost no medical equipment, not much lighting, just like the
stereotype of a communist country. Although also because it's
communist, they treated her for free.

After the exam, she told me that the doctor saw the string hanging down
from her, and s/he thought that was the problem. Had never seen it
before.

Being a communist HCW, he was probably expecting having no strings
attached.