Did you know that Hellmann’s mayonnaise was invented by Richard Hellmann in Long Island City?

The Hellmann family went commercial with the "Absolutely Pure and Wholesome" homemade salad dressing in 1915. Years later, General Foods snatched up the "sandwich spread/salad dressing" and urged shoppers to "Bring Out The Hellmann’s.…and Bring Out The Best!"

• Likewise, Sunshine Biscuits came from Long Island City.

• The Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company purchased the rights to the products, and in 1914 the company built a 10-story building for production, sales and management, providing jobs for 2,500 people.

And who can forget the aroma of fresh baked bread that wafted from the Silvercup Bakery at Queens Plaza until the late 1970s?

You knew you were home (in Queens) when your No. 7 train hit the Plaza and the aroma engulfed your senses.

• Ronzoni pasta was stirred up in Long Island City, and Jack Frost sugar sweetened the air along the waterfront. One of the Ronzoni brothers lost a finger in machinery used at the Long Island City plant.

• Chiclets were manufactured in Long Island City until the company moved to the midwest in the late 1970s.

• Workers at the Daimler Mfg. Co. on Steinway Street in Long Island City drove local folks wild with their "American Mercedes – the counterpart of the world’s greatest automobile, the Mercedes."

Ads touted the cars as "exact, authorized copies of the famo  us Mercedes," and urged New Yorkers to "Save the Duty Tax" by buying the locally manufactured roadsters.

The Daimler factory burned down on Feb. 14, 1907.

• The first commercial broadcast ever made – when radio was new – was made to publicize Jackson Heights.

Four, 15-minute commercials aired over NBC’s "WEAF" in 1922.

Each slot aired at a fee of $100 for 15 minutes.

• Swingline stapled the world from its manufacturing plant/headquarters in Long Island City from 1952 to 1997, when company officials decided to take advantage of tax benefits, packed up and moved the firm to Mexico.

• Joe Bellacicco stoked his ovens in Queens until the early ‘90s, baking some of the best bread products in the city.

Frames sit ready for the "ebony and ivory" at the Steinway Piano factory.

• Henry Engelhart Steinway brought his Grand Pianos to Astoria in 1850. The music plays on.

• Servall Zippers "zipped" up the world from its headquarters in Flushing until the mid ‘70s.

• We shelled out our dough for Queens-made Taystee Bread products until the early ‘90s when the firm moved to Pennsylvania.

• Wetson’s hamburgers were charcoaled first in Queens – the predecessor of McDonald’s.

• Remember the face of Jane Parker – (the A & P Bakery trademark) smiling down over Flushing Meadows-Corona Park? The bakery operated there until the early ‘70s.

A couple of "gals" at the Sunshine Bakery, 1914.

• Dial-A-Mattress has put the nation to sleep from its Long Island City home since 1978.

• Bulova – Took a lickin’ and kept on tickin’ since 1875, when the plant opened in Woodside.

• The first objects to set foot on the moon – the Lunar Sensing Probers on NASA’s 1969 Lunar module – were made by the EDO Corporation in College Point.

• The first "Garden Apartment" was built in Jackson Heights in 1914, at Northern Boulevard and 82nd Street.

Silvercup — they once baked bread for the city; now they make bread fo the city.

• The State of Israel was born in Queens when, on Nov. 29, 1947, members of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park voted to create the new nation.

• The New York Mets – Queens’ Boys of Summer – took to the field in Flushing on April 17,1964.

• Hangstrom started mapping the world from Maspeth, Queens in 1916. The firm was then sold to Langenscheidt Publishing, which still makes maps in their Maspeth plant.

• Jackson Heights, the birthplace of the renowned board game Scrabble ®, was the site of the first school Scrabble Tournament ever when students at I.S. 145 converged at Community United Methodist Church where Rev. Austin Armitstead was pastor.

Scrabble was invented in 1931 by Alfred E. Butts, an architect from Jackson Heights. The game was dubbed "Scrabble" in 1947.

• The first newspaper advertisement for a theater ran in November 1920 for "Ward and Glynne’s Million Dollar Astoria Theater."

• In October 1938, the first photocopy was produced at 32-05 37th St. in Astoria in the second-floor kitchen of Mr. & Mrs. Chester Carlson.

Carlson, a patent attorney, set up a makeshift lab in his apartment and began experimenting with the process that created the first image.

Shortly after 1950, when the first Xerox copier was invented, Carlson became a millionaire overnight.

Frames sit ready for the "ebony and ivory" at the Steinway Piano factory.

Silvercup – they once baked bread for the city; now they make bread for the city.

A couple of "gals" at the Sunshine Bakery, 1914.