Saturday’s ad is for Budweiser, from 1914, No. 3 in another series they did in 1914-15 called the “National Heroes Series.” The third one features Tadeusz Kościuszko, who “was a Polish-Lithuanian military engineer and a military leader who became a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States. He fought in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s struggles against Russia and Prussia, and on the American side in the American Revolutionary War. As Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces, he led the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising.”
Archives for February 13, 2016
Patent No. 1017086A: Process Of Removing Alcohol From And Purifying Beer
Today in 1912, US Patent 1017086 A was issued, an invention of Henry E. Deckebach, for his “Process of Removing Alcohol From and Purifying Beer.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
The process of treating beer consisting of withdrawing it from the fermenting tub, passing heated, compressed air through it, carrying off the air, sending the beer a strainer, returning it from the strainer to the fermenting tub, and continuing the circulation until the beer has been lowered to the desired temperature.
Breweries Of Europe
Pop Chart Labs, who’ve done some great infographics on beer, such as Breweries of the United States and Breweries of the 13 Original States of the United States of America. Their latest is the more ambitious Breweries of Europe.
Patent No. 272089A: Beer-Pump
Today in 1883, US Patent 272089 A was issued, an invention of Egbert B. Ruggles, for his “Beer-Pump.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
My invention relates to the class of devices I5 used for drawing ale, beer, and the like from barrels or casks from a point at a distance from and usually above the barrel, and it is perhaps best described as a beer-pump, although adapted for use with many other liquids.`
The invention consists in the peculiar combination of an air-pump and a faucet with a connecting-lever, by which both are operated, and by means of which the pressure in the barrel usually reduced by drawing of its contents is constantly maintained at any desired degree by the same movement of the hand that opens and closes the faucet.