Zeppo Marx, the youngest member of the Marx Brothers comedy group, founded the Marman Products Company which manufactured the clamps used to secure the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. He also patented heart rate monitors and a heating pad.
Zeppo Marx may have been the “straight man” among his brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Gummo), but he got a chance to laugh his way to the bank in other ways. The youngest member of the famed Marx Brothers comedy crew, Zeppo (whose real name was Herbert Manfred Marx) had a knack for mechanical processes and founded the Marman Products Company in Inglewood, California in 1941. The largest (and infamous) the company’s claim to fame was manufacturing the clamps used to secure the atomic bomb dropped by the Enola Gay on Hiroshima during WWII. In fact, Marman clamps are still used in a variety of spaceflight systems, including the Cassini orbiter. In addition to his work on the Marman caliper, Zeppo Marx was also awarded two patents for the first heart rate monitors and another patent for a heating pad.
Doing their Marx:
Groucho Marx hosted The Tonight Show for two weeks after Jack Paar resigned. He also introduced Johnny Carson as the show’s new host in 1962.
The Marx Brothers originally intended to be singers, but after a commotion caused by a runaway mule disrupted an initial performance, Groucho had the crowd roaring with laughter, and a team of comedians was born.
Chico once played Harpo on the TV show I’ve Got a Secret and got away with it.
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