Waring-who had a degree in architectural engineering-was intrigued. It blended via a propeller at the bottom of a tall, sealed glass jar, marking an improvement over the earlier wand-like mixers sold since 1911 by Hamilton Beach and common in milkshake shops.
His fellow inventor, Stephen Poplawski, had been working on a powerful motorized mixer for more than a decade and Osius sought to improve upon it. One day after performing on the radio, Waring was approached by an inventor named Frederick Osius.
(The patent was for a “disintegrating mixer for producing fluent substances.”) And Waring? He was best known as the bandleader of Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, one of the most popular dance bands of the 1930s. About a year after its debut, the mixer was rebranded as the Waring Blendor, with the intentional misspelling enabling the owners to claim a trademark. Introduced in 1937 at the National Restaurant Show in Chicago (and originally billed as the Miracle Mixer), the blender was a compact silo of mechanical might, something powerful enough to defeat the stuff that sank the Titanic, yet compact enough to sit on a bar top. Occupying the center of a Venn diagram where Industrial Progress and Callow Wantonness overlap is a shiny, high-pitched object.
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