The ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis Worlds Fair by Ernest Hamwi in 1904. His waffle booth was next to an ice cream vendor who ran short of dishes. Hamwi rolled a waffle to hold ice cream and the cone was born.
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| 5405469 | Method for forming globe map on rubber basketball A method for forming a globe map on a rubber basketball having an inner ball base comprising steps of a) providing plural pieces of particularly shaped rubber pieces which can be put together to form a spherical piece, b) printing plural globe map element... | 04/11/1995 |
| 4493649 | Collapsible globe assembly A globe of inflated envelope is supported by a bowed arm formed of releasably connectible curved segments and detachably mounted on a stand. The bowed arm further carries a casing containing a driving mechanism for rotating the globe and producing a music... | 01/15/1985 |