This technical drawing may appear to show a way to dry out soggy underwear. It may turn out to be a method to dry out soggy underwear. But the specified use is otherwise. The patent document explains [AIR 16:2]: “Teabag Squeezer and Holder”, U.S. patent #3550528, granted to Thomas Montague O’Neill, December 29, 1970: Heretofore, […]
Tag: Inventions
Your machine as a rule of thumb
If you don’t know how to build a machine that accomplishes as much as a Dr. Thomas Galen Hieronymus Machine — the all-in-one machine described here yesterday ‚ just get some ready-made plans. The self-noted inventor William D. Jenson has generously formulated a set of plans, which he placed on his web site along with […]
The Inventive Inventions of Dotts
A look back at an ovoidal innovation and other work The name of inventor Hiram S. Dotts is now less well known that it once was. So, too, are his inventions, two of which—perhaps Dotts’s most enduringly influential—are described here. Dotts’s Egg-Opener Be it known that I, HIRAM S. DOTTS, a citizen of the United […]