Where were these items invented?

A 3M employee named Spencer Silver tried to create a super-adhesive glue in 1968 and came up short. He ended up with a weaker adhesive that could be easily lifted off, and he decided to use it for bookmarking and note-taking.

Hungarian László József Bíró used newspaper ink to create a pen whose marks dried quickly and smudge-free. He presented the first production of the ballpoint pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931.

The Tomaccio tomato was developed by laboratories in Israel, the result of cross-breeding with the Peruvian tomato species to create a sweet, snackable tomato with a longer shelf life.

Mobile, Ala., native Lonnie Johnson created the popular squirt gun essentially by accident. He was trying to build an environmentally friendly heat pump that used water instead of freon. Once he realized it would work better as a toy, he sold it to Larami Corp. in 1989.

Hungarian scientist Maria Telkes invented the thermoelectric power generator in 1947 to provide heat for Dover House, a Massachusetts structure that survived three years on solar heat.

Josephine Cochrane invented the dishwasher in Shelbyville, Illinois, in 1887. She's considered the founder of what's now known as the Whirlpool Corporation.

Though the concept of wrapping bread around meat dates back many centuries, the sandwich as we know it today is credited to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, in 18th-century England. It's believed he ordered a piece of meat between slices of bread and prompted others to follow suit.

The Slinky was developed by accident when engineer Richard T. James was trying to build a spring for industrial equipment. After it fell from a shelf and did its famous "Slinky walk," James decided to market it as a toy. It was demonstrated in a department store in Philadelphia in 1945.

Pharmacist John Stith Pemberton produced the syrup for Coca-Cola in 1886, and began sampling it out of Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta. It was pronounced "excellent" and placed on sale for 5 cents a glass.

M-Systems, based in Kfar Saba, Israel, introduced the flash drive to the United States in 2000. It soon became the next wave of computer-storage technology after floppy disks and CD-ROMs. The facility is now owned by SanDisk.