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silence you can wear, invented by a teenager who just wanted to ice skate
means A pair of padded coverings joined by a band over the head, worn to keep the ears warm or to block out noise.
from A transparent English compound of "ear" and "muff" — "muff" coming from Dutch "mof" (and ultimately Latin "muffula," a covering for the hands), which is why the word once conjured warm sleeves for cold fingers before it migrated up to the ears. The famous tale, often repeated, credits a teenage Chester Greenwood of Maine with patenting ear-warmers in the 1870s; the patent is real, the wider story is the sort that grows in the retelling.
- inventor age
- Chester Greenwood was 15 in 1873
- factory town
- Maine made earmuffs by the millions
- official day
- Maine declared March 13 Chester Greenwood Day
- original name
- he called them ear protectors
- wire frame
- his grandmother sewed fur to bent wire
dec athletic earmuffs — chester greenwood's 1873 invention, patented as the first modern earmuffs in farmington, maine
ugg australia earmuffs — luxury sheepskin earmuffs brand popularized in the 2000s, sold globally with prices $60-120