Jack Daniel's

---

Jack Daniel's logo

Name: "Jack Daniel's Old No. 7"

Category: Liquors

Subcategory: Whiskey

Inventor: Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel

Producer: Jack Daniel Distillery

Production start: 1866 - Lynchburg, Tennessee, USA

Recipe: Made with corn, rye, barley malt and iron-free water from our limestone Cave Spring. Twice distilled, charcoal mellowed, matured to perfection in new, charred, white oak barrels on all levels of warehouses. Well-rounded and balanced whiskey with a pleasant mix of caramel, vanilla and wood notes highlighted by a slightly fruity aroma. Color: medium amber whiskey. Proof: 80 since 2002, including the black label, which had been 86 proof since 1987 and was 90 proof before that.

Interesting facts: Registered in 1866 by Jack Daniel, the Jack Daniel Distillery is the oldest registered distillery in the United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1866, Jack Daniel first bottled his Tennessee Whiskey in earthenware jugs with cork stoppers. To distinguish his whiskey from others, he began stenciling his name on the jugs, which became the first form of distillery advertising. By the late 1870s glass bottles were the common way to store whiskeys. Jack Daniel followed the standard round glass bottle and embosses with the distillery name. "Old No.7" appeared as Jack Daniel's product name in 1887. Everyone has a theory as to its origin; each theory is different, no one knows for sure. Jack Daniel's Black Label is the world-famous whiskey awarded seven international gold medals, including the one collected by Mr. Jack Daniel himself at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. It received highest honors then as the "world's best whiskey".

Motto (Jack Daniel): «Every day we make it, we'll make it the best we can»

Property: Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow Prop, Inc.

Product website: http://www.jackdaniels.com

Jack Daniel's, earliest jug (c. 1865 - 1870). Stenciled "Jack Daniel Whiskey Lynchburg Tenn.", height 15", dark brown and sand coloured, with narrow band of lighter brown around shoulder. Maker's imprint "3" near neck indicates 3 gallon capacity.

Jack Daniel's, one-gallon jug (c. 1870 - 1875). Stenciled: "Jack Daniel's Old Time Distillery Lynchburg, Tenn.", height 10", overall medium brown glaze.

Jack Daniel's, square border jug (c. 1880). Stenciled: "Jack Daniel's Old Time Distillery Lynchburg, Tenn.", made in several sizes from half Gallon to 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Gallon, overall medium brown glaze.

Jack Daniel's, Old No. 7 jug (c. 1890 - 1895). Stenciled: "Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 Lynchburg, Tenn.", height 10", dark brown glaze over beige.

Jack Daniel's, "Old Time" bottles sold by the merchant and filled with a quart of Jack Daniel's Whiskey. Left: "Jack Daniel's Old Time Distillery, Lynchburg, Tenn.", clear glass 8 1/2" high (c. 1880 - 1890). Right: "Old Time Distillery Old No. 7 Jack Daniel Lynchburg, Tenn.", cork finished clear glass quart, gave Jack Daniel a circular design, but left the "'s" off of "Daniel" (c. 1885).

Jack Daniel's, the square bottles that became the iconic packaging (c. 1895 - 1900). Embossed: "(One Quart) Old Time Distillery No. 7 Jack Daniel Distiller Lynchburg, Tenn.", height 11", clear glass, fluted bowed neck, cork finish.

Jack Daniel's, early labeled bottles (c. 1906 - 1910)

Jack Daniel's, newspaper advertisement (Lawrence democrat. - Feb. 8, 1895)

Jack Daniel's, newspaper advertisement (The Nashville globe - May 1, 1908)

Jack Daniel's, newspaper advertisement (The Nashville American - June 21, 1908)

Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel (Lynchburg, 1850 - October 10, 1911), American distiller and founder of the Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery. The 150th Anniversary Bottle (1850 - 2000) celebrates his birthday. No one knows exactly when Jack Daniel was born because there are no birth records, but it's customary to celebrate his birthday in September.

Jack Daniel's, the Whiskey family in its advanced version

Blogger

---

Blogger logo 1999

Name: "Blogger"

Category: Internet

Subcategory: Blog host

Registered: June 22, 1999

Released: August 23, 1999

Developer / Founder: Pyra Labs (founded by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, acquired by Google in 2003)

Place of develop: 350 Townsend Street, San Francisco, California, USA (Pyra Labs Headquarters)

Programming language: Python

Subdomain: .blogspot.com

Features: Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. Generally, the blogs are hosted at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be hosted in the registered custom domain of the blogger (like www.example.com). So blogspot.com domain publishings will be redirected to the custom domain. Blogger cannot be installed on a web server. One has to use DNS facilities to redirect a custom URL to a blogspot domain. Blogger allows its users to choose from various templates and then customize them. Users may also choose to create their own templates using CSS.

Interesting facts: Blogger was developed by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra. Pyra was co-founded by Evan Williams, computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur, also co-founder of Twitter, and Meg Hourihan, Internet entrepreneur, also co-founder of Kinja news aggregator. The company's first product, also named "Pyra", was a web application which would combine a project manager, contact manager, and to-do list. In 1999, while still in beta, the rudiments of Pyra were repurposed into an in-house tool which became Blogger. The service was made available to the public on August 23, 1999. Much of this coding was done by Paul Bausch and Matthew Haughey. In February 2003 Blogger was acquired by Google.

Slogan (2000): «Amphetamines for your website»

Property: Pyra.com Ltd., Google Inc.

Website: https://www.blogger.com

Blogger, Pyra Labs launches the service from its website (see: Monday, August 23, 1999)

Blogger, about page on Pyra website (screenshot February 2000)

Blogger, the first home page (screenshot October 1999)

Blogger, restyled home page (screenshot November 2000)

Blogger, official announcement of acquisition by Google in February 2003: «Big news: Yes folks, it's true. As you may have read, Blogger's parent company, Pyra Labs, was purchased by Google» (screenshot March 2003)

Founders of Pyra Labs, the company that created Blogger in 1999

Evan Williams, computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur, also co-founder of Twitter, and Meg Hourihan, Internet entrepreneur, also co-founder of Kinja news aggregator.

Blogger in its advanced version (2015)

Philips (electric razor)

---

Philips logo 1938

Name: "Philips Philishave" Type 7730

Nickname: "Cigar"

Categories: Electronics, Beauty

Subcategory: Electric razors

Inventor: Alexandre "Sacha" Horowitz

Producer: Philips Company (founded by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik Philips on May 15, 1891, named "Norelco" in USA)

Production start: March 9, 1939 - Eindhoven, Netherlands

First price: 19.50 NLG

Alexandre Horowitz
(Antwerp, Mar. 24, 1904 -
Switzerland, 1982),
the technical engineer
who invented the
Philips Philishave

Features: The first Philips Philishave - model 7730, which acquired the nickname "Cigar" - was of simple design. It had a Bakelite body, 3 bronze cutters which quickly became blunted and only shaved a small area of the face. These characteristics clearly reflect the properties of the first product phase. The first updated model 7736 "Philishave 6" in 1941 mainly improved on performance through adding 3 cutters, replacing the cutter material with steel, and adding an additional ring to tense the skin around the shaving head. Next model 7733 "Steelbeard" in 1946 has a larger shaving head. These improvements reduced both shaving time and skin irritation. The main production methods rely on early injection molding techniques.

Interesting facts: Philishave Type 7730 was developed by the technical engineer Alexandre Horowitz and the first product was manufactured on March 9, 1939. Only five days later, the first six products in the Philishave family were presented to the general public at a trade fair in Utrecht, Netherlands. By 1940, 12,000 shavers had been manufactured. In the following years Philips set up a dealer network and trained salesmen in selling electric shavers, which all added to the success of the 7733 "Staalbaard" (Steelbeard) Philishave. Philips used the Philishave brand name for their shavers from 1939 to 2006; from March 2006, all Philishave products will be rebranded with the Philips brand name.

Slogan (1939): «Met Philishave geen last van mes en zeep en kwast!» - "With Philishave not suffer from knife and soap and brush!"

Property: Koninklijke Philips N.V.

Producer website: http://www.philips.com

The first Philishave: Type 7730, nickname "Cigar", 3 bronze cutters (March 9, 1939)

Philishave, images from patent granted to A. Horowitz (March 7, 1944 - filed May 31, 1939)

Philishave 7730, shaving trial demo at Spring Fair in Utrecht, Netherlands (March 1939)

Philishave 7730, advertisement and folder (1939)

The second Philishave: Type 7736, named "Philishave 6", six steel cutters, additional ring to tense the skin around the shaving head (1941)

The third Philishave: Type 7733, named "Steelbeard", larger shaving head (1946)

Philishave 7733 mascot: Mr. Staalbaard (Steelbeard)

Philishave 7733 advertising (1946)

Philips celebrates 75 years as a leader in shaving and skincare with an exhibit in the new Philips Museum, Eindhoven (2014)

McDonald's

---

McDonald's logo 1940

Name: "McDonald's"

Category: Food - Drink

Subcategory: Restaurants

FIRST OPENING
--- Original name: "McDonald's Bar-B-Q"
--- Founders: Richard and Maurice McDonald
--- Founded / Opened: May 15, 1940 - San Bernardino, California, USA

CORPORATION
--- Original name: "McDonald's System, Inc."
--- Founder: Ray Kroc
--- Founded: March 2, 1955
--- Opened: April 15, 1955 - Des Plaines, Illinois, USA

Raymond "Ray" Kroc
(Oak Park, Oct. 5, 1902 -
San Diego, Jan. 14, 1984)
the American businessman
who founded the
McDonald's Corporation

Features: McDonald's original restaurant in California served only hot dogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, milkshakes, and the original pre-1960s type of French fries. Today's menu includes numerous other items that have been added through the years. Most standalone McDonald's restaurants offer both counter service and drive-through service, with indoor and sometimes outdoor seating.

Interesting facts: In 1937 Patrick McDonald opens a food and drinks stand called "The Airdrome" on historic Route 66 (now Huntington Drive) near the Monrovia Airport in Monrovia, California, with Hot dogs being the first item sold. In 1940 his sons Richard and Maurice move the building 40 miles (64 km) east to San Bernardino, California, where they open the first McDonald's restaurant, near U.S. Route 66, at West 14th St. and 1398 North E St., on May 15. Its menu consisted of 25 items, mostly barbecue. As was common at the time, they employed around 20 carhops. It became a popular and highly profitable teen hangout. In 1948, after noticing that almost all of their profits came from hamburgers, the brothers closed the restaurant for several months to remodel it and implement their innovative "Speedee Service System", a streamlined assembly line for hamburgers. The carhops are fired, and when the restaurant reopens it sells only hamburgers, milkshakes, and french fries. At 15 cents, the burgers are about half as expensive as at standard diners, and they are served immediately. The restaurant is extremely successful, and its fame spreads by word of mouth. In 1954, entrepreneur and milkshake-mixer salesman Ray Kroc becomes fascinated by the McDonald's restaurant during a sales visit, when he learns of its extraordinary capacity and popularity. Kroc approaches the McDonald brothers, who have already begun franchising, with a proposition to let him franchise McDonald's restaurants outside the company's home base of California and Arizona, with himself as the first franchisee. On March 2, 1955, Ray Kroc founds "McDonald's Systems, Inc." as a legal structure for his planned franchises. On April 15, Kroc opens the ninth McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois. In the following years, Kroc sought franchisees for his McDonald's chain: by 1958, there were 34 restaurants; in 1959, Kroc opened 68 new restaurants, bringing the total to 102 locations; in 2012 McDonald's operates over 35,000 restaurants worldwide.

Slogan (1960): «Let's eat out!»

Property: McDonald's

Official website: http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com

The first McDonald's opened by Richard and Maurice McDonald on May 15, 1940, at West 14th St. and 1398 North E St. in San Bernardino, California. Female carhops in majorette boots and short skirts served customers.

McDonald's menu in 1943

The McDonald brothers in 1948 closed their restaurant for alterations

McDonald's reopened in December 1948 as a self-service drive-in restaurant

McDonald's announcing a new opening in Des Plaines in 1955 (Des Plaines Journal, Apr. 14)

The ninth McDonald's was the first franchised restaurant opened by Ray Kroc on April 15, 1955, at 400 North Lee Avenue in Des Plaines, Illinois. Kroc incorporated his company as McDonald's Systems a month before, on March 2.

The McDonald brothers: Richard James "Dick" McDonald (Manchester, Feb. 16, 1909 - Bedford, July 14, 1998) and Maurice James "Mac" McDonald (Manchester, Nov. 26, 1902 - Riverside, Dec. 11, 1971), the American fast food pioneers who established the first McDonald's restaurant at West 14th St. and 1398 North E St. in San Bernardino, California in 1940.

McDonald's Corporation celebrates 60th Anniversary (April 15, 2015)

LEGO (see here) set dedicated to McDonald's 80th anniversary (1940-2020)