At Lunch
@Lunch - Uitvindsel van die Week - "Blizzard Cones"─── 13:08 Fri, 29 Jul 2016
Lees hier om uit te vind wat die doel van hierdie 1930's uitvindsel was...
It sounds like a treat from Dairy Queen, but the "blizzard cone" was actually a beak-shaped mask designed to shield the wearer's face from ice and snow once upon a time.
Invented in 1939 in Montréal—where temperatures can dip to -4 F and the worst storm on record dropped more than 18 inches of snow—the plastic snowstorm mask was one of the most bizarre contraptions of its decade, along with baby cages and carbon-dioxide freckle freezers. Obviously, it never took off; otherwise we'd all be walking around with our pointy face shields on anytime meteorologists saw a major blizzard on the horizon.
