Well, that tag line wasn’t so great, but this T-Shirt is! The good folks at Dayton Prints have put together a very nice, visual representation of innovations that have from the Miami Valley (my old stomping grounds pre-California.) Back at the turn of the 20th century, it was kind of a early Silicon-Valley for mechanical innovation (cars, planes, cash registers, etc.) There are some pretty smart cookies still hanging out there making a living inventing things like next-generation scanning laser micrometers.

Love the T-Shirt. Decoding for those who aren’t in the know, that’s a pull-tab D, step ladder A, backpack parachute Y, airplane T, wire rim wheel O, and cash register N.