Month: February 2017

This is a test post from Lindsey.

While Earl Tupper actually created all of the products known later known as tupperware, Brownie Wise revolutionized marketing at home. Their partnership created a very successful business.

Earl Tupper and Brownie Wise at the
Tupperware factory in Farnumsville,
Massachusetts, 1951
© Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C

The computer mouse is an interesting topic to me mostly because it is a piece of technology that seems overlooked. A lot of people know about how the computer was invented, and even what the first computer looked like. But not many know about the computer’s mouse.

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/mice/comfort-mouse-4500/4fd-00025

Students Sit At Desk With Typewriter. 1964-04-21. Centennial Image Collection, Special Collections and University Archives. http://archive.umw.edu:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/umw:2897

Brownie Wise, Tupperware House Parties, and Female Empowerment

Before inventing Tupperware, Earl Tupper was a subcontractor for DuPont’s plastics war production. In the 1940s, he began experimenting with polyethylene with the intention of creating a commercial product. In 1947, Tupper invented what we now know as Tupperware: “an airtight, watertight” lid and a container made of “a tough, nonporous, and nonsmelling substance.”

http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.umw.edu/docview/503181662?accountid=12299

Star Trek the Next Generation Pinball Flyer. Printed Paper. National Museum of Play. Rochester, New York. Accessed February 8, 2017. http://www.museumofplay.org/online-collections/22/53/113.5458.

(Shannon K.)

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https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/243412

Khayla McGowan