 With Tech Trends, I'm Mike Daboski, ABC News. In the almanac this morning, it was this date in 1872. Breakfast would never be the same again. John Blondell of Thomaston, Maine, patented the donut cutter. This date in 1878, the corncob pipe was patented by Henry Tibb of Washington, Missouri. Wouldn't be until the following winter we would get the button nose and the two eyes made out of coal.