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Baker's Chocolate, 1765 -- Ready made suit, 1826 -- Banana shipment, 1871 -- Gillette Safety Razor, 1903 -- Filene's Automatic Bargain Basement, 1909 -- Molasses flood, 1919 -- Newspaper, 1690 -- Novel, 1789 -- Thomas Alva Edison and the legislative voting machine, 1868 -- Telephone, 1876 -- TV for the deaf, 1972, and the blind, 1990 -- Science and engineering -- Smallpox inoculation, 1712 -- Ether, 1846 -- Subway, 1897 -- Kidney transplant, 1954 -- Lighthouse, 1716 -- Tontine Crescent, 1794 -- USS Constitution, 1797 -- Boston Public Library, 1854, 1858, 1895 -- Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court, 1903 -- Madam Alice, 1672 -- Hotel, 1829 -- YMCA, 1851 -- World Series, 1903 -- First night, 1976 -- Ice, 1806 -- Boston cream pie, 1856 -- Boston terrier, 1860s1870s -- Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School cookbook, 1896 -- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, 1988 -- Christmas ban, 1659 -- Massachusetts State Constitution, 1780 -- Gerrymander, 1812 -- School integration : Roberts v. the City of Boston, 1849 -- Massachusetts 54th Regiment, 1863 -- Same-sex marriage, 2003 -- Boston Common, 1634 -- The Public Garden, 1856 -- Metasequoia glyptostroboides, dawn redwood, 1948 -- Boston harbor cleanup : the longest, largest effluent outfall tunnel in the world, 1990-2000.
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