http://ohgizmo.disqus.com/enWed, 21 Nov 2007 07:02:14 -0000http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/11/20/napkin-notebooks-for-your-next-inspiration/#comment-1764736<p>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. <a href="http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/papertowel.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/papertowel.htm">http://www.ideafinder.com/h...</a></p><p>The first real "paper napkins" appeared only much later in the 1930s. <a href="http://www.scottbrand.com/us/history/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.scottbrand.com/us/history/">http://www.scottbrand.com/u...</a> - Around the same time when "splinter-free" toilet paper became available. (Yay for splinter-free toilet paper!)</p><p>Thus, indirectly, napkins owe their invention to crappy toilet paper. ...uh, can I rephrase that?</p>YoctoWed, 21 Nov 2007 07:02:14 -0000