Robert Chesebrough Vaseline. In 1875, he founded the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company that in 1955 became Chesebrough-Ponds, a leading manufacturer of personal-care products. Chesebrough patented the process of making petroleum jelly (U.S. Patent 127,568) in 1872. By 1874, stores were selling over 1400 jars of Vaseline a day. Chesebrough's success stemmed from firm belief in his product. Before he began selling petroleum jelly, he tested it on his own cuts and burns. Chesebrough was still unable to sell any to drug stores until he travelled around New York demonstrating his miracle product. In front of an audience, he would burn his skin with
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro her sugar sculpture "A Subtlety." For the Criterion Collection, Jelly-Schapiro has contributed essays on classics of world cinema such as "Memories of Underdevelopment" and "Buena Vista Social Club". In 2018, he collaborated with the British artist Chris Ofili on the catalogue essay for Ofili's "Paradise Lost," a volume containing Ofili's photographs of the island of Trinidad, which is accompanied by Jelly-Schapiro's essay on the cultural history of chain-link fencing. Jelly-Schapiro lives in New York, where he is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (born June 16, 1979) is an American geographer