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Thermos LLC is a manufacturer of insulated food and beverage containers and other consumer products. The original company was founded in Germany in 1904. [2]In 1989, the Thermos operating companies in Japan, the UK, Canada and Australia were acquired by Nippon Sanso K.K., which had developed the world's first stainless steel vacuum bottle in 1978, [3] before it renamed itself Taiyo Nippon ...
Diagram of a vacuum flask Gustav Robert Paalen, Double Walled Vessel. Patent 27 June 1908, published 13 July 1909. The vacuum flask was designed and invented by Scottish scientist James Dewar in 1892 as a result of his research in the field of cryogenics and is sometimes called a Dewar flask in his honour.
Sir James Dewar FRS FRSE (/ dj uː ər / DEW-ər; [1] 20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist.He is best known for his invention of the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with research into the liquefaction of gases.
The Stanley thermos became known for its durability. It was the only all-steel thermos in production until the mid-1960s. [6] The United States army reportedly tested Stanley thermoses in World War I by dropping them out of airplanes and running them over with heavy equipment. [4] Stanley thermoses were carried by bomber pilots during World War II.
The remaining recipes each earned one vote, but that doesn’t make them any less worthy of a spot on the proverbial Southern dessert "Mount Rushmore."
The e-book A teacher in Galicia, Spain, Ángela Ruiz Robles invented the first mechanical book way back in 1949. She was looking for a way to allow her students to carry fewer books to and from ...
Many fast-food chains rely on soft-serve or mixes for their milkshakes, but a few stay true to tradition and make theirs with real ice cream. Find out which ones.
Chrysler recently used "trademark awareness" advertisements to prevent the brand from becoming a generic noun or verb, including such statements as They invented 'SUV' because they can't call them Jeep [134] In Ireland all SUVs are colloquially called jeeps, whereas in the UK they are 'four-wheel drives'.