Fun fact: the tea bag was also invented by women - or at least they got the first patent for it. (I have a hard time believing that in the thousands of years of people drinking tea, nobody thought to put it in a bag)
Seven years after Roberta and Mary filed their patent, Thomas Sullivan would start distributing samples of his tea in little silk bags. He’d later say he had intended for customers to tear open the bags and brew loose, and was surprised that they would prepare a single serving sample of tea by leaving it in a porous bag. This became a popular legend of him inventing the tea bag by accident
Fun fact: the tea bag was also invented by women - or at least they got the first patent for it. (I have a hard time believing that in the thousands of years of people drinking tea, nobody thought to put it in a bag)
Seven years after Roberta and Mary filed their patent, Thomas Sullivan would start distributing samples of his tea in little silk bags. He’d later say he had intended for customers to tear open the bags and brew loose, and was surprised that they would prepare a single serving sample of tea by leaving it in a porous bag. This became a popular legend of him inventing the tea bag by accident
I wonder what bags these might have been.
Well bags got wheels just the last century 😅