The man who made the first wine in the US and the man opened the first US kindergarten; the man who invented Thousand Island Dressing and the man who produced the first electric guitar.

What is the relation between these men?

Hi Mozart, I found this site: Swiss Roots, which claims that they were all Swiss.
I couldn't find anything within that site though, about names of the men.

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Originally posted by dance girl:
Hi Mozart, I found this site: Swiss Roots, which claims that they were all Swiss.
I couldn't find anything within that site though, about names of the men.

The 'inventor' of the kindergarten and the man who devised the name for it, was Froebel. He was born in what is now Thuringia, in central Germany Unlikely that he himself introduced to the US though. The electric guitar seems to have been invented either by Les Paul, who was British, or George Beauchamp who was, it seems, American, as was the Chicagoan who invented the thousand island dressing

Apparently, the inventor of Thousand Island dressing was a woman, Sophia Lalonde. But I couldn't find out if she was Swiss or not.

A bit more: the woman who founded the first US kindergarten was the sister of the German woman who promoted their use in Europe, so herself German, it would seem

kindergarten
As Mozart is looking for a male founder as his answer, perhaps she married a Swiss?

Les Paul was born in the US, I am almost certain. However, his claim to have invented the electric guitar is not very strong.

Your link didn't point out that the first kindergarten in the US created was a private school, taught in German. Many people around St. Louis, Missouri are convinced that it was Susan Blow who had the first kindergarten. However, hers may have been the first public one taught in English.

Wait a minute. Swiss? What did the Swiss ever invent, apart from Orson Welles' ad-lib (they didn't invent the cuckoo clock)

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Originally posted by FredPuli:
Wait a minute. Swiss? What did the Swiss ever invent, apart from Orson Welles' ad-lib (they didn't invent the cuckoo clock)

They invented Toblerone.

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Originally posted by dance girl:

They invented Toblerone.

Ah, yes. The original eternal triangle !Eternal because it lies in stacks in airports forever.

Swiss roots is what I was looking for. Besides dance girl source....

400 Swiss first .

J.A Sutter (Sutter wines) was Swiss.

Little known about guitar

Thank you dance girl.