Product Origins

Were Kotex Products First Manufactured as Bandages During WWI?

• 15 December 2020

The company that designed a new and improved wartime essential was faced with a dilemma...

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Were Kotex Products First Manufactured as Bandages During WWI?

Cocktails Came Out of Prohibition?

• 14 April 2016

A long-running claim that cocktails were an entirely American invention appears to be something of...

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Cocktails Came Out of Prohibition?

Potato Chip Origin Were potato chips invented thanks to a cook's momentary fit of pique?

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Potato Chip Origin

Brassiere and Otto Titzling Was the brassiere invented by Otto Titzling?

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Brassiere and Otto Titzling

Play-Doh Origins Play Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner?

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Play-Doh Origins

Life Without Black People List of technological innovations brought about by African-American inventors.

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Life Without Black People

Monkee Mike Nesmith and Liquid Paper Did Monkee Mike Nesmith's mother invent Liquid Paper?

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Monkee Mike Nesmith and Liquid Paper

Cabbage Patch Dolls Were Cabbage Patch dolls designed to resemble what people will look like after a nuclear...

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Cabbage Patch Dolls

Champagne Glass Origin Were champagne glasses modeled on Marie Antoinette's breasts?

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Champagne Glass Origin

Botts’ Dots How Botts' Dots, the rounded raised markers on California roads, came to be invented.

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Botts’ Dots

Post-It Note Origin How post-it notes came to be invented.

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Post-It Note Origin

Ivory Soap Origin How Ivory Soap came by its ability to float.

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Ivory Soap Origin