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Joseph C. Gayetty (c.1827 – May 2, 1895) was an American inventor credited with the invention of commercial toilet paper.[1][2][3] It was the first and remained only one of the few commercial toilet papers from 1857 to 1890 remaining in common use until the invention of splinter-free toilet paper in 1935 by the Northern Tissue Company.[4][5]
- ^ David Wallechinsky; Irving Wallace (1975). The People's Almanac. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-04186-7.
- ^ Victor Kelley (8 March 2006). Hubris from a Not-So-Humble Hermit. AuthorHouse. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-4670-9962-2.
credited with producing the first packaged toilet paper in the U.S. in 1857
- ^ Professor Steven Connor; Steve Connor (9 June 2011). Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things. Profile Books. pp. 120–. ISBN 978-1-84765-282-9.
First proprietary lavatory paper.
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Cowboy Bobwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Quilted Northern Bath Tissue History, Georgia-Pacific, 2013 Archived March 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine