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Scotty Kirkland

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Retrospect: When Miller Hutchison met the Wizard of Menlo Park

Miller Reese Hutchison created the Acousticon and the Klaxon horn before working with Thomas Edison.

Retrospect: Thomas Eastin and the early days of Alabama’s press

Thomas Eastin launched The Halcyon and Tombeckbe Advertiser in 1815.

Retrospect: The cotton kingdom of Isidor Weil

Isidor and Herman Weil launched a cotton brokerage that would grow to one of the world's largest.

Retrospect: The French artisan who helped shape Alabama’s early identity

Mobile's poet, jeweler and pioneer Jean Simon Chaudron counted among his clients the nation's founding fathers.

Retrospect: The history of Holt’s Central Iron & Coal Co.

Holt's Central Iron & Coal Co. installed a foundry on the shores of the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County.

The early years of ice cream in Sylacauga

A building in Sylacauga has been home to decades of ice-cream manufacturing, most recently Blue Bell.

Retrospect: The Radio Products Corp.’s Superflex

Ernest W. House changed radios forever when he created a regenerative electric circuit to perfect tuning.

Retrospect: The rise and fall of Huntsville’s Whitesburg Theatre

From 1949 until the 1970s, the Whitesburg Theatre entertained residents and visitors to Huntsville.

Retrospect: ADDSCO during World War II

Mobile answered the call to war with the Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. building Liberty Ships and other vessels.

Retrospect: The story of Kymulga Grist Mill

Kymulga Grist Mill started producing ground flour in the late 1800s and continued into the 1970s.

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