In which decade were tea bags invented ?!
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A bit more information from the above site (http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Tea_bag) may be in order to clarify things!. It is important to distinguish between the invention of the very first and the tea bag as most of us know it today!.
Hand sewn silk muslin teabags were first available commercially round 1904, the decade, then the first decade of the 20th century!. The modern paper fibre bag as we know it today was not invented until much later by a William Hermanson of Boston!. The patent was sold in 1930 to Salada Tea Company!. So techincially, in the second third decade (1920-1930)!.
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Hand sewn silk muslin teabags were first available commercially round 1904, the decade, then the first decade of the 20th century!. The modern paper fibre bag as we know it today was not invented until much later by a William Hermanson of Boston!. The patent was sold in 1930 to Salada Tea Company!. So techincially, in the second third decade (1920-1930)!.
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In the early 1900's tea bags were first developed!. But many don't know why they were invented!. In the early 1900's a salesman was trying to figure out how he could better display, sell, and use his product that he was trying to sell, loose leaf tea!. So, the salesman experimented by separating his different varieties of loose leaf tea in to cheesecloth bags!. By doing so he was able to easily carry, pack, display, and sell his product to different vendors in a much more convenient way!. It was also not as messy as dumping loose tea leaves into the hot water, it was a bit more easier to clean up!. Most tea lovers hate tea bags, and prefer to buy loose leaf tea when it is available!. They say that the bags distort the natural flavor of the tea and take away from the tea drinking experience!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The first tea bags were made from hand-sewn silk muslin bags and tea bag patents of this sort exist dating as early as 1903!. First appearing commercially around 1904, tea bags were successfully marketed by tea and coffee shop merchant Thomas Sullivan from New York, who shipped his tea bags around the world!. Modern tea bags are usually made of paper fiber!. The heat-sealed paper fiber tea bag was invented by William Hermanson[citation needed], one of the founders of Technical Papers Corporation of Boston!. Hermanson sold his patent to the Salada Tea Company in 1930!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Along with many labour saving devices, the tea bag is a post-WW2 invention!. As late as the 1980's and 90's people of a certain age were still being snobbish about teabags not being "real" tea!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
According to Wikipedia, the first tea bags were made in 1903!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
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