Peterson of Dublin

 

(PM) ... The brothers Kapp—Friedrich and Heinrich—from Nuremburg, Germany, opened a smokeshop in Dublin in 1865 and sold briar and meerschaum pipes, tobacco, and smoker’s sundries. Within a few years, Charles Peterson, a Latvian from Riga, appeared on their doorstep with an invention; a curved pipe with a well beneath the bowl, south of the smokestream, a stem with a graduated bore, and a special extended lip with a small hole at the top. The well trapped moisture away from the main smokestream, thus avoiding the "curved pipe gurgle." The graduated bore encouraged the smoker to puff more lightly to get the same volume of smoke, and the special lip passed the smoke over rather than directly onto the tongue, avoiding "tongue bite."
Not only had Peterson built a better mouse trap, but he had a patent for it too. Continued