Marvin Stone of Washington, D.C., patented the paraffin-covered paper drinking straw on January 3, 1888. He made his first prototypes by winding a strip of paper around a pencil and gluing it at the ends.
Stone's drinking straw was designed to have a diameter slightly smaller than the typical lemon pip, as he was tired of getting lemon seeds in his mouth when drinking lemonade.
Prior to Stone's paper straw, people used natural rye grass straws, which were undesirable because they imparted a grassy flavor in beverages.
Stone owned a factory that made paper cigarette holders and by 1890, his factory was producing more drinking straws than cigarette holders.
In 1906 a machine was invented by Stone's "Stone Straw Corporation" to automatically wind the straws.
If you place two straws in your mouth, one inside of a drink and the other on the outside, you won't be able to drink through either of them.
There's a maximum height that water can be sucked up a straw: 10 meters (34 feet). At this height, a perfect vacuum is created at the top of the straw, and water will begin boiling spontaneously.
In Japan, McDonald's straws are designed so that when used with a shake, the speed will be the same as an infant drinking breast milk.
The average American uses 35,000 plastic straws in their lifetime.
Every single day, Americans toss 500 million plastic straws in the trash. That's the equivalent of 125 school buses full of plastic drinking straws.
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Stone's drinking straw was designed to have a diameter slightly smaller than the typical lemon pip, as he was tired of getting lemon seeds in his mouth when drinking lemonade.
Prior to Stone's paper straw, people used natural rye grass straws, which were undesirable because they imparted a grassy flavor in beverages.
Stone owned a factory that made paper cigarette holders and by 1890, his factory was producing more drinking straws than cigarette holders.
In 1906 a machine was invented by Stone's "Stone Straw Corporation" to automatically wind the straws.
If you place two straws in your mouth, one inside of a drink and the other on the outside, you won't be able to drink through either of them.
There's a maximum height that water can be sucked up a straw: 10 meters (34 feet). At this height, a perfect vacuum is created at the top of the straw, and water will begin boiling spontaneously.
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In Japan, McDonald's straws are designed so that when used with a shake, the speed will be the same as an infant drinking breast milk.
The average American uses 35,000 plastic straws in their lifetime.
Every single day, Americans toss 500 million plastic straws in the trash. That's the equivalent of 125 school buses full of plastic drinking straws.
Source Treehugger
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