bubble wand | container: The Bubbler

In the early 1900s, Charles Schindler, a pharmacist and drug store owner in Toledo, Ohio, introduced his Bubbler. The novelty was intended to make bubbles without soap suds. The set included a donut-shaped tablet of soap—by pressing soap bar shavings into something similar to a Tablet Press (powders and ingredients pressed into the shape of pills or tablets), soap-tablets could be formed. Tricks that could be performed with The Bubbler included floating bubbles, repeaters, surprise bubbles, double bubbles, boxers, lung tester, rolling bubbles, and smoke bubbles, among others. Within a few years, Schindler sold his pharmacy and opened a factory to produce The Bubbler. He searched for other inexpensive patents his firm could produce and succeeded with many small toys. In the 1920s, Schindler’s son became manager and morphed the company into a provider of parts and electronics.