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Scott Paper Company Plant in Chester, Pennsylvania. 1915 newspaper ad for the toilet paper made by the company. Scott Paper was founded in 1879 in Philadelphia by brothers E. Irvin and Clarence Scott, and is often credited as being the first to market toilet paper sold on a roll. They began marketing paper towels in 1907, and paper tissues in ...
Paper shredders are used to cut paper into chad, typically either strips or fine particles. Government organizations, businesses, and private individuals use shredders to destroy private, confidential, or otherwise sensitive documents. The first paper shredder is credited to prolific inventor Abbot Augustus Low of Horseshoe, New York. His ...
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles [ 1] and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. [ 2] Initiated in reaction against the perceived impoverishment of the decorative arts and the ...
Clearwater Paper Corporation is a pulp and paper product manufacturer that was created on December 9, 2008, via a spin-off from the real estate investment trust company Potlatch Corporation. With its headquarters in Spokane, Washington , the new company started with four locations for the manufacture of bleached paperboard , consumer tissue ...
Joseph C Gayetty [disputed – discuss]. Joseph C. Gayetty (c.1827 – May 2, 1895) was an American inventor credited with the invention of commercial toilet paper. [1] [2] [3] It was the first and remained only one of the few commercial toilet papers from 1857 to 1890 remaining in common use until the invention of splinter-free toilet paper in 1935 by the Northern Tissue Company.
A full roll of toilet paper Toilet paper and toilet paper holder; the paperboard center of a spent roll is visible on the holder.. Toilet paper (sometimes called toilet tissue, [1] toilet roll, [1] or bathroom tissue [1]) is a tissue paper product primarily used to clean the anus and surrounding region of feces (after defecation), and to clean the external genitalia and perineal area of urine ...
Paper craft. Paper craft is a collection of crafts using paper or card as the primary artistic medium for the creation of two or three-dimensional objects. Paper and card stock lend themselves to a wide range of techniques and can be folded, curved, bent, cut, glued, molded, stitched, or layered. [ 1] Papermaking by hand is also a paper craft.
Dec. 12—A renowned Japanese architect has brought an example of a quick-build home for displaced fire survivors to Maui. A renowned Japanese architect has brought an example of a quick-build ...