97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

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This week, Scott and Aaron look back at historical inventors who were also geniuses when it came to marketing their new products – like the duo who invented the first toothpick-making machine and the man who developed modern-day lawn tennis. Also this week in history: children begin getting inoculated with Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine.

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