1. In 1967, in lieu of retirement, engineer and physicist Carl Sontheimer and his wife Shirley started a new business that combined Carl's expertise in electronics with his love of cooking. That business became Cuisinart blenders.
2. In the early 1900s, the Hobart Manufacturing Company began producing the first electric food-grinding machines. The name Kitchen Aid blenders was first introduced in 1912 as a brand name for one of those machines: the very popular electric stand KitchenAid mixer. That electric KitchenAid mixer is still a popular item today.
3. Some of the first products sold by Black and Decker blenders were a milk bottle cap machine, a cotton picker, candy dippers, and machinery for the U.S. mint.
4. In 1910, two industrial tool designers by the name of Alonzo G. Decker and S. Duncan Black formed Black and Decker blenders. With $600 from the sale of Black's car and a loan of $1,200, they set up a machine shop in a rented warehouse in Baltimore, Maryland.
5. Before World War II, Oster blenders primarily sold beauty care products. During the war, the Oster blender company shifted to the production of small electric engines for military aircraft. Oster blenders later applied this knowledge to the development of cutting-edge household appliances.
6. A year after World War II, Oster blenders took its first foray into household appliances with an Oster blender it called the Osterizer. This Oster blender was so popular, it quickly became a household name.
7. In 1911, when different regions of the United States used different types of power, Chester Beach and L. H. Hamilton developed the first universal motor. Their collaboration led to the creation of Hamilton Beach blenders, which used the Hamilton Beach blender motor to create and nationally market the first commercial drink mixer.
8. Cuisinart blenders founder Carl Sontheimer developed the first American home food processor in the early 1970s. He adapted the design from that of a French industrial blender.
9. Because of the immense popularity of malts and milkshakes in the early 1900s, the first commercial drink mixer, which was created by Hamilton Beach blenders, enjoyed great commercial success.
