Within the navies of the world, an assortment of ships make up the fleet. From tankers and supply ships to cruisers and aircraft carriers, navies are composed of a lot of different kinds of vessels. Unsurprisingly, itâs the big ships that tend to get all the attention.
ITS FOUNDER PIONEERED THE DRIVE-THRU. Robert O. Peterson opened the first Jack in the Box restaurant in San Diego, Calif. in 1951 by converting one location of his Oscarâs restaurant chain into a new animal altogether: a drive-thru hamburger stand.
Confidence votes 13. Jack Johnson, the famed boxer, first black to become world champion boxer who was actually imprisoned for travelling across state lines with a woman (who later became his wife), invented a wrench so different from Stillson's 1870 pipe wrench it was granted a patent in 1920.