Earmuffs were invented by a 15-year-old

In 1877, Chester Greenwood, a young man from Farmington, Maine, patented his simple invention: earmuffs. Greenwood, who first had the idea for this “improvement in ear-mufflers,” as the patent documents describe it, at the age of 15, turned chilly ears into a business.


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