Invented by Alfred M. Moen
In 1937, Alfred M. Moen was still a student at the University of Washington
To pay for tuition Alfred M. Moen worked as a cleaner at the school
One evening when he had to do the last job of cleaning the sink
He turned on the traditional two-handle faucet with both hands , but the hot water did rush towards him
At that time, he stepped back alertly, but he felt fear in his heart and had the intuition that if it had happened to others, he would have gone to the hospital for emergency treatment
Since then, Alfred M. Moen has been thinking about how to improve and solve this problem
The original idea was to have a faucet that can control the water volume and water temperature with one hand
So he He changed his course in mechanical engineering, and then after continuous attempts at drawing, he came up with the predecessor of the current single-handle faucet
At first, he borrowed money to make samples himself and tried his best to sell them, but no one recognized this new invention.
The major faucet manufacturer at the time even said that his product had major shortcomings
It was not until twelve years after he invented the single-handle faucet that >The company Ravenna Metal Products in Seattle helped him sell 250 sets of products to suppliers in San Francisco.
The demand for the products has been increasing since then (its retail price was $12)
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In 1959, Moen's design was selected as one of the top 100 best-designed mass merchandise
Until Alfred M. Moen officially retired in 1982, he held 75 patents in one lifetime
And he has never actually run the company MOEN, but has been engaged in development work behind the scenes
MOEN (called Dream Faucet in Taiwan) has been one of the largest faucet companies in the United States for decades.