Inventers. Invention. Did: Kostikova Ksenia
Inventor diaper considered American Marion Donovan. Her lacked the time to washing bed sheets, and she decided to improve the process of care for a newborn daughter. Initially, Marion came up with rainproof children's panties, which put on ordinary oilcloth. Donovan called them The Boater (from the English. Boat - boat) - panties helps the child stay afloat.
In 1949 boutery so successfully sold to in the famous New York department store Saka Fifth Avenue, that Donovan managed to get for the rights to his invention 1 million dollarov. No inventor went even further - she came to sew the resulting design for children's panties, and instead of oilcloth began using special absorbent paper. Finally, it is replacing safety pins, which they kill a diaper, a secure metal buckle.
The patent for invention Donovan was in 1951, but was not able to sell it to a single firm. Consumers cautiously embraced a new idea - to use a diaper once, and then throw it seemed impractical.
But ten years later, disposable diapers interested company Procter & Gamble. Her co-worker Victor Mills, adopting the idea of Donovan, invented diapers Pampers. The first diaper was released in 1961.
Interesting facts about diapers: On the decomposition of a diaper need 250 years To date, to bury all the diapers need very large pit about 10 cubic kilometers. The time taken on the purchase and utilization disposable diapers more than the time spent on care for reusable diapers. Set of reusable diapers can be used for subsequent children and grandchildren.