Last week we looked at Ives’s modern paper safe. Today we present Moodie’s 19th-century toilet-paper safe: “Toilet-Paper Safe,” Elhanan L. Moodie, US patent number: 416340, Filing date: Aug 31, 1889. It begins: “Be it known that I, Elhanan L. Moodie, of the city and State of New York, have invented aii Improvement in Toilet-Paper Safes, […]
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Cereals with that patented chameleon quality
When parents warn children not to play with their food, there’s now reason to add a menacing “even if”: “even if the food begins playing with you”. Recently, food was given a new ability to play, a little, the moment it encounters milk. Researchers have patented a way to make breakfast cereal change colour as […]
Figure from a possibly-innovative neti pot patent
This lovely drawing, below, is part of Syeda J.Z. Mansur‘s 2008 US patent application (#12/072,970) for a possibly-innovative “Portable sinus and throat cleansing system and method“. The inventor is pictured here, right. BONUS: The water matters, especially in parts of Louisiana. BONUS TO THE BONUS (unrelated, except that it related to Louisiana): Water and oil, mixed like […]
Scientists Gain Insights into and with Cereal Flakes
After generations of humans had been pouring cows’ milk onto breakfast cereal flakes and then pouring that milk/flake mixture into themselves, a researcher named Luigi Degano fed breakfast cereal to 21 cows in Italy. Degano wanted to see how this might affect the milk that later issued from the cows. Degano, based at the Istituto Sperimentale Lattiero […]