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Reblogged from ckck
Package saver, U.S. Patent No. 4498586, invented by Carmela Vitale in 1983.
I’m so curious about Ms. Vitale. She doesn’t have any other patents to her name. It was less than 30 years ago, is she still alive? Was she a pizzaiola, or maybe just someone who was delivered a squashed pizza and figured out how to prevent it? Did her invention net her any significant wealth?
Seems like fodder for an episode of This American Life.
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I was eating pizza the other day when my mind got to thinking about that little plastic tripod used to keep larger pizza boxes from caving in. …
“Only one thing can subdue poetry…”
Read the rest at 2D Goggles by Sydney Padua.
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Family Dinner by Graham Annable
Having Cronus as a father was tough on little Zeus.
And the rest of the family.
Fun fact: Goya’s popular and gruesome Saturn Devouring His Sons was one of seven of the so-called Black Paintings that he painted directly on the walls of his dining room.
