Kansas won the award for most beautiful license plate for the wheat plate design issued in 1981.
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Kansas inventors include Almon Stowger of El Dorado who invented the dial telephone in 1889; William Purvis and Charles Wilson of Goodland who invented the helicopter in 1909; and Omar Knedlik of Coffeyville who invented the first frozen carbonated drink.
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Russell Springs located in Logan County is known as the Cow Chip Capital of Kansas.