HISTORY OF STRAW

Straw is a very useful thing. Drinking milk or juice with a straw patio more enjoyable. Besides drinking, straw can be used to playing the soap bubbles. Even a straw can be used to make Crafts hand. Before the discovery of a straw-made, people use straw from wheat grass material or of glass materials. The inventor of the first artificial straw was a cigarette paper factory owner named Marvin Stone. In 1888, he created a straw-based paper. This paper straws are made in a way that is quite unique. The paper is wound on a pencil to form a pipe. Furthermore, this paper glued together. However, a straw-based paper is not impervious to wet. Marvin Stone perfected his invention by using manila paper which is coated with paraffin. Creates a waterproof straw. Mervin Stone also determine the ideal size for a straw. Length is 8.5 inches (21.25 cm). Diamaternya approximately slightly smaller than the diameter of the seed lemon, lemon seeds to prevent entry into the straw and stuck in it. This product was patented on January 3, 1888. In 1890, the factory producing more straws than cigarette paper. In 1906 Marvin Stone have created a straw making machine. Thus, the straw is no longer made by hand. In 1938 Joseph B. Friedman developed a flexible straw, known as the flexy-straw. Initially he was sorry to see her daughter's upset with his soda straws that bend and hinder the flow of muniman. From there he made a flexy-straw that can be bent without blocking the flow of drinks as we are seeing now. At the top of the straw there is a small folds which is bent in all directions. Joseph B. Friedman also assess the straw creations Marvin Stone still has shortcomings, such as cracks and less easy to clean. Joseph B. Friedman replacing the straw with a plastic material that is clean and not easily damaged. Flexy-straw creates what we see today.