Don Graves


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How To Maintain Your Hummingbird Feeder and Make the Syrup They Love.

The first commercially made hummingbird feeder was designed by Laurence J. Webster of Boston for his wife, who had read a 1928 National Geographic story about feeding hummers from small glass bottles. Sometime between 1929 and 1935, Webster had his design produced by an MIT lab glassblower (possibly James Ryan). In 1947, National Geographic ran an article by Harold Edgerton about his... (posted by Don 2 years 343 days ago.)