The saddle-shaped chip that let Pringles stack — and win
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The saddle-shaped chip that let Pringles stack — and win
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In 2008, the children of a retired Procter & Gamble chemist buried part of his ashes inside one of his own inventions: a Pringles can. He had spent two years perfecting the shape that let the chips stack without breaking — then was pulled off the project before it ever reached a shelf. How does an object outlive the argument over who actually made it?
In this episode, we trace the fifty-year dispute over what a Pringle legally is, who invented it, and who profited from it, asking what happens to credit and identity when a single product passes through four inventors, two tax courts, and three corporate owners.
Person: Fredric J. Baur
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Date: 1956
Case: the hyperbolic paraboloid potato chip and its stackable can
Status: sold twice, taxed both ways, name still unconfirmed
- Procter & Gamble assigned Fredric Baur, an organic chemist born in 1918, to fix broken and stale potato chips starting
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