It’s Halloween! Time to Preserve Corpses
November 16, 2017
Patent
It’s Halloween, which, of course, means that it’s time to preserve corpses. Consider Joseph Karwowski’s invention (U.S. patent 748,284 issued December 29, 1903*). Joe was a Russian national (‘…a subject of the Czar of Russia’) living in New York state. He was presumably impressed by the ability of waterglass (sodium silicate, or Na2SiO3) to preserve fresh […]