Some inventions seem small but change the way things work significantly, and these old-fashioned egg beaters were just such a ...

Invented by Willis JOhnson, the egg beater was patented in 1884. Originally he inented the device as a mixing machine not intended to whisk the eggs only. The rotary beater transfers the action of ...

The first U.S. patent for a rotary egg beater was granted in 1856 to Ralph Collier and Alfred Reip. We don’t know what inspired Ralph and Alf. Perhaps they were chefs or just tinkerers.