SODAPOPBOB
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The only other thing I can think of that might explain this mystery is to relate it to the situation that occurred with the design and patent of the 1915 Coca Cola bottle. The patent was registered under the name of Alexander Samuelson, who was the plant superintendent for the Root Glass Company in 1915. But in reality, the bottle was designed by Earl R. Dean, who was the mold shop foreman for Root Glass at the time. But it took almost 100 years before Earl R. Dean finally got the recognition he deserved. Today, even the Coca Cola Company gives credit to Dean for designing the bottle. Based on what I know about all of that, the main reason the patent was in Samuelson's name is because he was a suit-wearing plant superintendent and Dean was only a grease-under-the-fingernails mold shop foreman.
Perhaps something similar occurred with the 1940 Pepsi Cola bottle. Because James Steelman worked for the Armstrong Cork Company at the time, and who already had 20 other bottle patents under his belt, that it was decided to put the 1940 Pepsi Cola bottle patent in his name instead of the bottle's true designer, James Gordon Carr.
In other words ...
1. The 1940 Pepsi Cola bottle was actually designed by James Gordon Carr.
2. James Shipely Steelman had nothing to do with the bottle's original design other than his name was put on the patent.
But even if this is true, how is anyone ever going to prove it?
[ 1915 Coca Cola bottle patent - With Alexander Samuelson's name - Which should be Earl R. Dean ]
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