Recent posts about Houston, Mississippi on our local forum with over 2,000,000 registered users. Houston is mentioned 267 times on our forum: Latest news from Houston, MS collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: American (13.1%), English (9.6%), Irish (2.9%), African (1.4%), Scotch-Irish (1.2%). Current Local Time: CST time zone. Land area: 7.59 square miles.
Resomation was invented by  biochemist Sandy Sullivan, who is assisting Anderson-McQueen in the start up. Sullivan's Resomation, Ltd. has been developing the system since 2007, and it is distributed by Matthews Cremation of Orlando.
Around 1710 English ironmonger, Baptist lay preacher, and inventor Thomas Newcomen developed the atmospheric reciprocating engine, which unlike the steam pump (The Miner's Friend) developed by Thomas Savery in 1698, employed a piston in a cylinder, the vacuum pulling the piston down to the bottom of the cylinder when water was injected into it, ...