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Napkin Notebooks For Your Next Inspiration

Started by dponce80 · 10 months ago

By Andrew Liszewski
How many times have you heard that a revolutionary idea, design or invention started out as just a doodle on a napkin? Well in an effort to tap into whatever magical ability napkins have to inspire mankind, someone has created a coiled notebook that uses napkins instea ... Continue reading »

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  • Sanitary tissues appeared in 1907 when a delivery of creped paper turned out to be too thick to be usable as toilet paper. So instead, Arthur Scott, head of the Scott Paper company, cut it up into larger sheets and invented the disposable paper towel. http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/pa...

    The first real "paper napkins" appeared only much later in the 1930s. http://www.scottbrand.com/us/history/ - Around the same time when "splinter-free" toilet paper became available. (Yay for splinter-free toilet paper!)

    Thus, indirectly, napkins owe their invention to crappy toilet paper. ...uh, can I rephrase that?
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