thermos flask

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The late Hudson Silva began this process in 1964, by packing a few eyes into an ice-filled thermos flask normally used for tea, and having them carried by hand on a flight to Singapore.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2016

In September 1976, a package containing a shiny, blue thermos flask arrived at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2014

Messages and music scores were conveyed via a pneumatic tube system in a thermos flask capsule.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2012

Here you can see various contraptions and instruments from the RI's past – including the world's first thermos flask – and watch genuine scientists going about their business in the nanotech lab.•

From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2012

They entered all the contests, availed themselves of all the discounts that were advertised and had, on two occasions, won a T-shirt and a thermos flask that Baby Kochamma kept locked away in her cupboard.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy