New York Times on Briquettes

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New York Times on Briquettes on September 29, 2014 at 2:30 PM

It's a good read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/magazine/who-made-that-charcoal-briquette.html?_r=0

I had always thought Henry Ford had invented charcoal briquettes, but apparently, he got the idea from the inventor, a scientist at the University of Oregon.