Tag: patents
Take me out to the ballgame (and then to court)
Today’s post is written by Kimberlee Ried, public programs specialist at the National Archives in Kansas City. “Take me out to the ball game, take me out with the crowd . . .” These words, written by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer in 1908, are still heard every night at baseball parks across America, [...]
Posted by Hilary on July 9, 2012, under News and Events, Unusual documents.
Tags: baseball, Bill Doak, catcher's mitts, Doak, mitts, patents, Rawlings, Rawlings Manufacturing, St. Louis, US Patent Office, Victor Sporting goods
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What’s Cooking Wednesday: National Waffle Day
Want a waffle with that earthshake? All Virginia earthquake jokes aside, today is a momentous day indeed. On this day in 1869, Dutch American Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York, received a U.S. patent for the first waffle iron. Described as simply a “device to bake waffles,” the waffle iron was heated over a coal [...]
Posted by Victoria on August 24, 2011, under - Presidents, Myth or History, Recipes, What's Cooking Wednesdays.
Tags: Cornelius Swarthout, John F. Kennedy, National Waffle Day, patents, waffle iron, waffles
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