Robert Chesebrough acid or an open flame, then spread the clear jelly on his injuries while demonstrating past injuries, healed, he claimed, by his miracle product. To further create demand, he gave out free samples. Chesebrough opened his first factory in 1870. The first known reference to the name Vaseline is in his U.S. patent: “I, Robert Chesebrough, have invented a new and useful product from petroleum which I have named 'Vaseline…'" . The word is believed to come from German "Wasser" (water) + (oil). Chesebrough lived to be 96 years old and was such a believer in Vaseline that he claimed
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