Stephen Poplawski
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Stephen Poplawski
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| Name | Stephen Poplawski |
| Description | Stephen J. Poplawski was born in Poland in 1885. When he was nine years old, he and his family emigrated to the United States and ended up in Racine, Wisconsin. At the young age of 23, he founded his own company. A year later, the young man was commissioned by the Arnold Electric Company to come up a machine that would automatically mix malted milk drinks for restaurants. He was the first person to ever come up with the idea of connecting a blade at the bottom of the container to an agitating mechanism so that it could spin, chop, puree, and do all the things that restaurants needed a blender to do. Poplawski patented his design in 1922. In 1926, Arnold Electric Company was bought by Hamilton Beach, and Poplawski went to work for them. Poplawski never stopped inventing, though. In 1933, he developed a blender for home use. This led to him forming the Stephens Electric Company. Seven years later, he filed his patent for the first blender ever to be used in household kitchens. In 1946, Poplawski sold his business to the Oster Manufacturing Company, and then retired. He died ten years later. Both the Hamilton Beach and the Oster companies are still going strong, and they are both still offering quality blenders to smoothie-loving consumers - proof that Poplawski's legacy lives on in a big way. |
| Birth | 1885 |
| Occupation | Inventor |
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