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I have a Encyclopedia of Inventions here but it does not have Potato Masher in it. It's I think designed for school age children but it is a very interesting book with short history of 340 inventions with drawings and pictures.

I've learnt things like the first dishwashers that appeared in the USA around 1900 were turned by hand but unfortunately leaked and only washed a few dishes at a time. And the the wringer for washing machines was invented in 1861.

So, who invented chips? I mean, why on earth did someone think that would be a good idea?

Jill

Hating to go back on track though I am ...

http://articles.latimes.com/1991-01-21/business/fi-618_1_potato-masher

Inventor of Potato Masher Dies
January 21, 1991|From Times Wire Services

PARIS — French industrialist Jean Mantelet, who vowed to free women from cooking chores and built an industrial giant on a potato masher, has died a month after retiring, his Moulinex company said today.

Mantelet, known in France as "Monsieur Moulinex," died at his Paris home Saturday. He was 90.



Going back off track -- there is a law firm in Ontario, barristers & solicitors & patent agents, called
SMART & BIGGAR.

Now, if you wanted to patent your invention, whom would you hire?

And he had a brother called Michael Whirls

Fantastic family lol

Hah Joy! --

"Modern instant mashed potatoes, though, does have an inventor, Canadian scientist Edward Asselbergs."

I saw the question and was all prepared to give the answer: Humph. A Canuck invented the potato masher. Canucks invented everything. A Canuck invented the zipper.

And there I was, upstaged by reality. ;)

Yes but JJ your lot are all over the World................my lot are just London/norfolk ............................

Pyle, was she a teacher?

yes thats right, cos he married a Celia Mill...............

while looking for someone i found a fanny pyle lol xx

haa lol joy.......

that reminds me of another in my tree. I have many Kings, ie surnames that is.................I have a Fanny King and daughter Afeelia and husband and master Wayne...

They're on the 1901 census.........

his occupation was a master Baker...............

Joy if my life anything to go by it be Tesco Value lolxx

I got an Everard Dick, if that counts for anything xxx

maris piper

invented mash i think pmsl

or was it king edwards

PMSL, i cant even ansa that one lol xxx

JJ I recon Alko has us on a mission that has no answer, i think she is wuming us..............

Another member in my tree. is a Lena Wellback, born to my aunty Fanny in 1720, husband was Richard known as Dick...

its true, its in my tree....

when mashed get smashed or something like it them metal things said it lol xx

No i havent Lisa, even Google cant help

Joy YUKKKY lo xxx

MY BUTLER USED TO COMPLAIN
HE ALWAYS FOUND LUMPD IN HIS MASH

TILL OUR ANGEL SAID I MASHED IT SO IF YOU FOUND A LUMP

YOU CAN SPIT IT ON MY HAND
SO I CAN SEE IT

he never complained ever again lol

No way was it a man, it was defo a lady lol xx

A Man anything to make things easier for our ladies.