This Day, That Year – August 24

Chef George Crum prepared the first potato chips at Moon’s Lake House on this day in 1853.

Did you know that:

• Cornelius Swarthout patented a stove-top waffle iron on this day in 1869
• Rupert Grint is an English actor born on this day in 1988
• A patent for a Bubble Dispensing Doll was issued to Vowles, Barad, Smith, and Stern on this day in 1993