Enduring
Stanley: The 110-Year-Old Bottle That Became a Fashion Craze
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For a hundred years, the Stanley bottle belonged to construction workers. Then, in about four years, it belonged to everyone. We trace William Stanley Jr. — the Westinghouse engineer whose 1885 transformer made AC power practical — and his 1913 patent for an all-steel vacuum bottle. Then the strange afterlife of the brand: sold from owner to owner while the green bottle went to war, onto…