Named after "nothing", the first practical one of these appliances was invented in 1907
.... they were the invention of an American named Sir Benjamin 
Thompson,... [DOC] [TLE] Packard - Wikipedia [PAR] Packard was an American luxury automobile marque built by the Packard Motor 
Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States, and later by the Studebaker-
Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana.