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Toilet Paper
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1391 The first modern toilet paper was used by the Chinese Emperor Family
1857 Joseph C. Gayetty created the first commercially packaged toilet paper
1871 Zeth Wheeler patents rolled and perforated (row of small holes) toilet paper
1879 Thomas Seymour, Edward Irvin and Clarence Wood Scott founded the Scott Paper Company and made the first toilet paper sold in rolls Walter Alcock creates toilet paper on a roll and used perforated toilet paper instead of flat sheets
1880 The British Perforated Paper Company began selling toilet paper in boxes of individual squares
1885 Oliver Hewlett Hicks patented packages of toilet paper and the manufacturing process
1897 Wheelers Company began selling and marketing standard perforated toilet paper on a roll
1921 The Waldorf brand toilet paper made Scott Paper Company the number one toilet paper company
1890 Scott Paper Company makes Waldorf brand toilet paper in rolls
1928 German, Hans Klenk become the first toilet paper rolls seller in Europe.
1935 Northern Tissue invented splinter free toilet paper
1942 St. Andrew's Paper Mill in England began selling the first two layered toilet paper
1943 Novelty toilet paper was printed with images of Hitler
1973 Johnny Carson, a famous comedian, made a joke about supermarkets running low on toilet paper, people took his words seriously and bought as much as they could, and the supermarket then ran low on toilet paper
1990 Moist toilet paper was introduced to the UK by Andrex
2001 Moist toilet paper was introduced to America by the company Kimberly-Clark, which took over Andrex
Today The toilet paper industry is large and toilet paper is available in several types
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2nd Century CE The Chinese developed the first papermaking process
2nd Century BE The Chinese invented paper
6th Century CE The first documented use of toilet paper in early medieval China
Late 15th Century Paper became widely available
Late 19th Century Mass manufacturing of modern toilet paper began
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