Sketches of Earl S. Tupper’s Pre-Tupperware Inventions
See the early concepts Tupper worked out before striking it big with his plastic food storage containers
Inventor Earl S. Tupper’s mind was always on. Before his Tupperware food storage containers brought him fame and fortune, his early inventions were flops. Here are five of his product concepts that never took off.
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A water motorcycle with an outboard motor would provide “thrills on leans and curves, or afford absolute sea worthiness under worst sea conditions,” Tupper wrote on this sketch from an unknown date.
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With his fish-propelled boat, drawn in the spring of 1926, Tupper imagined that a large fish would be harnessed to the underside of the boat. A “wing” would prevent the fish from diving.
Tupper conceived a no-drip ice cream cone in 1936. In the sketch, he notes that melting cream would run down the side of the cone into a gutter. The cream would then run back into the cone through drain holes in the gutter.