Anyone know who invented the charcoal brickette?!

[Tripper]

Koool factoid... Henry Ford. Ford hatred waste & noticed they had a lot of wood & sawdust waste so with the help of a chemist he invented the brickette & Henry marketed Ford Charcoal Brickettes. He convinced people to drive in their car somewhere, have a picnic & grill with his brickettes. He later sold the brickette company to E. G. Kingsford who still makes them to this day!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/magazine/who-made-that-charcoal-briquette.html?_r=0

Never knew this but saw it on one of my fav shows... Mysteries At The Museum!

BoB

 

[8literbeater]

Good ol' Henry. He sure knew how to make a buck. He was friends with Thomas Edison. They were also, supposedly, friends with Ellsworth B. A. Zwoyer, who invented and patented the charcoal briquette in 1897.

 

[IronRat]

Interesting fact.

Here's another about Ford's credit for the assembly line.

"The 1901 to 1904 Oldsmobile Curved Dash was the first mass-produced car,[1] made from the first automotive assembly line, an invention that is often miscredited to Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company. (Ford was the first to manufacture cars on a moving assembly line.)"

- From Wikipedia

 

[kenny c]

Mass production and the assembly line were around before ford. Gun manufacturers and others were using them.