Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Everyone loves a good invention, something that took time to design and engineer to

solve a particular problem.

Come up with an idea that scratches and itch and people will line up to buy it in droves.

Some are novel, like liquid paper or the super-soaker, while others change the world like the

television or the printing press.

But some inventions aren't inventions at all.

They're simply ingenious ways to use existing products, and even though nobody spent thousands

of dollars building a prototype, that doesn't make these products any less useful.

Perhaps no one knows the utility of a common everyday item?

Better than Ed Lowe.

Lowe was born in 1920 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Several years later his family up and moved everyone to Casapolis, Michigan, just over

the border from Indiana.

When he was in his 20s, Lowe enlisted to serve in World War II and returned home in 1946

to work for his father, Henry, who owned a company that sold blocks of ice and absorbents,

such as Sawdust to local customers.

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