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Plastic straws have been a hot favorite topic of intellectuals and commoners alike this year. Everyone seems to be joining the effort and stepping up to save the environment! Here is the brief history of how the plastic straws took over the world...
From Where it all Began & the First Drinking Straw
Earlier, humans used hollow cylindrical tubes as straws for drinking alcohol. Those were made up of metals. Marvin Stone was the first man who filed a patent for the drinking straw in 1888. In 1880 while Stone was drinking Mint Julep with a piece of ‘rye grass’ (which was used as straw earlier) his grass straw began to disintegrate. Marvin was the manufacturer of paper cigarette holder. He decided to make something better. He made a paper drinking straw. Marvin gave a patent to his paper straw design in 1888 and began producing them!
Later Inventions in Straw
Later, a number of inventions were made and amendments made in the paper straw. Inventor Joseph Friedman made the ‘bent straw’ by inserting a screw into it. Interestingly, the idea (to bend the straw) came to his mind when he saw his daughter struggling with the paper straw to have her milk!
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