René Lacoste was a famous French tennis player who obtained fame in two areas: tennis and fashion. While winning the 1926 U.S. Open championship, René Lacoste of France wore something that he himself had created: a white, short-sleeve shirt made exclusively of a light knitted fabric called jersey petit piqué that served to wick away …
In 1907 there was a great need in America for private messenger and delivery services. To help meet this need, an enterprising 19-year-old, James E. (Jim) Casey, borrowed $100 from a friend and established the American Messenger Company in Seattle, Washington. According to accounts given by Jim there were quite a few messenger services already …
Adobe’s first products following PostScript were digital fonts beginning with their proprietary Type 1 fonts. Apple later developed TrueType fonts, a competing format which it licensed to Microsoft. TrueType had certain advantages: it provided not only full scalability, but also precise control of the pixel pattern created by the font’s outlines. A few months later …
MTV’s pre-history began in 1977, when Warner Cable (a division of Warner Communications and an ancestor of WASEC, Warner Satellite Entertainment Company) launched the first two-way interactive cable TV system, Qube, in Columbus, Ohio. The Qube system offered many specialized channels, including a children’s channel called Pinwheel which would later become Nickelodeon. One of these …
Bill Bowerman said this a couple of decades ago. The guy was right. It defines how he viewed the world, and it defines how Nike pursues its destiny. Ours is a language of sports, a universally understood lexicon of passion and competition. A lot has happened at Nike in the 33 years since we entered …
Jacob Schweppe can be considered as the father of the modern carbonated soft drinks industry: he was the first to produce carbonated mineral water on a commercial scale. From the formation of the Schweppes company in 1783 until today, Schweppes has continued to provide consumers around the world with high quality carbonated drinks. Schweppes today …