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[[File:03222267ec9b184928dd36dffbddca63.jpg|thumb|A Complete Pyro-Bol with Instructions and Complimentary Tobacco]] | |||
[[ | '''Frank Furedy''' was a tobacco blender from Chicago, Illinois who filed for a patent on a smoker's pipe<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US3308834</ref> in May of 1960. Sadly, Furedy passed away before his patent was granted and published some seven years later at the request of his heir. His invention was marketed as the [[Pyro-Bol]], and was notable for its glass inner combustion chamber, surrounded by a series of removable, vented wooden pieces. | ||
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