Another great one lost.

Pringles Can Inventor Buried in Pringles Can
Posted by Adam Kuban, June 1, 2008 at 1:00 PM

From the Cincinnati Enquirer:

Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles potato crisps that he asked his family to bury him in one.

His children honored his request. Part of his remains was buried in a Pringles can—along with a regular urn containing the rest—in his grave at Arlington Memorial Gardens in Springfield Township....

He developed many products, including frying oils and a freeze-dried ice cream, for P&G. The ice cream was patented and marketed, but didn't catch on. "Basically, what you did, you added milk to it, put it in the freezer and you had ice cream," said his son Lawrence J. Baur of Stevensville, Mich. "That was another one he was proud of but just never went anywhere."

Um...the carboard tube wasn't around until this guy "invented" it?? Oooookkkaaaayyyyyyy.

i95 wrote:

Um...the carboard tube wasn't around until this guy "invented" it?? Oooookkkaaaayyyyyyy.

Everyone knows that before this scientific genius figured out how to put a top and a bottom on the cardboard tube all it was good for was holding a roll of toilet paper. Procter and Gamble's gain was NASA's loss.

pastrami-on-wry wrote:

Procter and Gamble's gain was NASA's loss.

The parents of these early protype test pilots, lost in a tragic conflagration would beg to differ...



Fortunately, after the tragedy, one which NASA likes to keep hidden, Dr. Baur's was terminated and went into the private sector, where his attentions were diverted to more appropriate uses for cardboard.No more lives were lost, other than those lost to poor diet.