Inventions

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Contact lenses are surprisingly older than most of us realize. In 1888, the

German physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick constructed and fitted the first

successful contact lens.

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The first patent for a non-electrical washing machine was issued in England

in 1692. Nearly two hundred years later, Louis Goldenberg of New Brunswick,

New Jersey invented the electric washing machine (late 1800s to early

1900s).

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In 1962, Ermal Cleon Fraze of Dayton, Ohio, invented the integral rivet and

pull-tab (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.

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Tin was first replaced by aluminum starting in 1910, when the first aluminum

foil rolling plant, “Dr. Lauber, Neher & Cie., Emmishofen.” was opened in

Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.

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The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to

J. Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing implement

that would be able to write on the leather he tanned, which the then-common

fountain pen couldn’t do.

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Shampoo originally meant head massage in several North Indian languages.

Both the word and the concept were introduced to Britain from colonial

India. The term and service was introduced in Britain by a Bengali

entrepreneur Sake Dean Mahomed in 1814, when Dean, together with his Irish

wife, opened a shampooing bath known as ‘Mahomed’s Indian Vapour Baths’ in

Brighton, England.

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In 1847, the Fry’s chocolate factory, located in Union Street, Bristol,

England, moulded the first ever chocolate bar suitable for widespread

consumption. The firm began producing the Fry’s Chocolate Cream bar

(arguably the best tasting chocolate bar in the world in my opinion) in

1866.