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Question Asked: What Year Was The BBQ Grill Invented?
The exact year is unknown. However, it’s strongly believed to have been invented in the early 1960s.
Wikipedia says:
The outdoor gas grill was invented in the early 1960s in Little Rock, Arkansas by William G. Wepfer and Melton Lancaster while working for ARKLA, the Arkansas and Louisiana power company. Wepfer, a graduate of the U.S.Naval Academy, was Director of Marketing, charged with finding new ways to sell natural gas to ARKLA residential customers, and therefore bought a basic charcoal grill and re-designed it in the Wepfer’s garage so that natural gas provided the fuel for the grill.
As time moved on, more and more types of outdoor grills came about, including hibachi, electric, and charcoal.
Question Asked: When Was Diet Soda Introduced?
Diet soda started out in 1952, when Kirsch Bottling (Brooklyn New York) came out with a sugar free ginger ale, called N0-Cal. It was intitally designed for diabetics, not for people on diets.
In 1958 Royal Crown Cola announced, in Atlanta, that they were producing a soda called Diet Rite.
In 1963, Coca-Cola joined the diet soda market by creating the soft drink Tab.
Pepsi didn’t jump on board until 1964.
Question Asked: When Was The Last Full Moon on Friday the 13th?
I’ve been saving this question for today, since today is a full moon on Friday the 13th!
The last time we had a full (or “new”) moon on Friday the 13th, was June 13th, 2003. Nearly six years ago. As you can imagine, it doesn’t happen all that often.
Many people believe that Friday the 13th is a bad luck day. I don’t believe that, myself. What about you? Are you superstitious?
Question Asked: When Was The Vacuum Invented?
The patent for the first “sweeping machine” was filed on June 8th, 1869.
The first device that we know today as a vacuum came from 1907’s invention by a janitor in Canton, Ohio.
In 1907, James Murray Spangler, a janitor in a Canton, Ohio department store, deduced that the carpet sweeper he used was the source of his cough. He tinkered with an old fan motor and attached it to a soap box stapled to a broom handle. Using a pillow case as a dust collector on the contraption, Spangler invented a portable electric vacuum cleaner. He then improved his basic model the first to use both a cloth filter bag and cleaning attachments, and received a patent in 1908, and formed the Electric Suction Sweeper Company. One of the first buyers was a cousin, whose husband, William H. Hoover, later became the president of the Hoover Company, with Spangler as superintendent. Hoover’s improvements resembled a bagpipe attached to a cake box, but they worked. Sluggish sales were given a kick by Hoover’s 10 day, free home trial, and eventually there was a Hoover® vacuum cleaner in nearly every home.
The quote above is cited from About.com
Question Asked: When Was The Soda Can Invented?
The following is from Wikipedia, and cited as the most accurate history of the “soda can” I can find on the internet. Short of driving to the Coca Cola factory, I think this is the best we’re gonna get.
The first all-aluminum cans were the same as their forebears, which still used the can opener to open them. Mikola Kondakow of Thunder Bay, Ontario invented the pull tab version for bottles in 1956 [Canadian patent 476789]. Then, in 1962, Ermal Cleon Fraze of Dayton, Ohio, invented the similar integral rivet and pull-tab version (also known as rimple or ring pull), which had a ring attached at the rivet for pulling, and which would come off completely to be discarded. He received U.S. Patent No. 3,349,949 for his pull-top can design in 1963 and licensed his invention to Alcoa and Pittsburgh Brewing Company. It was first introduced on Iron City Beer cans by the Pittsburgh Brewing Company. The first soft drinks to be sold in all-aluminum cans were R.C. Cola and Diet-Rite Cola, both made by the Royal Crown Cola company, in 1964.