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In an era before outboard motors or trucks with trailers, hunting and fishing boats often became waterlogged and too heavy to move. Even if a sportsman could move his boat, bad roads to the river, and lack of space on a train or in a wagon made the transport of boats...

John Evans Garage, now known as Evans Trailers in Sumter, South Carolina, has operated for more than 100 years. Despite no longer serving as a car repair garage, Evans once operated one of the most iconic tow trucks in the County: Big Bertha. Big Bertha was a Ford...

American inventor Thomas Edison is responsible for many famous creations, but his favorite was the phonograph. Edison devised his earliest phonograph prototypes in the mid 1870s, and by 1877 he had invented a device that could both record and playback sound. This...