Inventions
After seeing employees filch stamps, Arthur Pitney developed this type of machine.
What is a postage meter?
Flavor shared by Tia Maria & Gallwey’s.
What is coffee?
Someone saying "God bless" after you do this is said to keep your soul from wandering.
What is sneezing?
As the constellation Ursa Minor is the Little Bear, Leo Minor is this.
What is Little Lion?
Mass. for Massachusetts for example.
What is abbreviation?
Erroneously called the "Clermont", his ship is also often erroneously called the 1st steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
The French term for a wine waiter.
What is sommelier?
The Duchess of Bedford brought this afternoon custom to England about 1840.
What is tea?
Of elliptical, spiral, or irregular, shape of the Milky Way Galaxy.
What is spiral?
From Greek "a-" (not) & "methy" (wine), this gem was once thought of as a remedy for intoxication.
What is amethyst?
Trying to invent a sensor that could detect poison gas, this was made instead by accident.
What is the smoke detector?
Italian for "sparkling", its use is applied to genuine sparkling wines.
What is spumante?
For frogs it's singing the night away; for boobies, dancing, whistling & pointing at sky.
What is a mating ritual?
An area in space where the pull of gravity is so strong nothing can escape, not even light.
What is a black hole?
The white of an egg.
What is albumen?
In 1946, Percy LeBaron Spencer of Raytheon Corp. accidentally found you can cook with these.
What are microwaves?
Traditionally, in England, 2 jiggers equal 1 jack, & 2 jacks equal this.
What is a gill?
The Yokozuna ring-entering ritual is performed by participants in this sport.
What is sumo wrestling?
Brightest star in constellation Centaurus, its planetary system was the destination in "Lost In Space".
What is Alpha Centauri?
This plant got its name from the Indians using it to draw poison from certain types of wounds.
What is arrowroot?
In 1808, the first crude typewriter was built for an Italian countess afflicted with this.
What is blindness?
This grain is the main ingredient of both Irish & Scotch whiskey.
What is barley?
To aid a patient, a Navajo medicine man would "paint" a ritual design in this medium.
What is sand?
A supernova explosion observed by the Chinese in 1054 left this hazy cloud in Taurus.
What is Crab Nebula?
Term for any medicine, such as aspirin, that reduces or eliminates pain.
What is analgesic?