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TP Trivia
Everything you never needed to know about toilet paper.
See also: TP History • TP
Museums
Related Site: Toilet
Paper Encyclopedia (ToiletPaperWorld.com)
Ancient: TP Before Bible
Toilet Paper was used in China as early as 875 A.D., twenty years prior to the earliest known
Hebrew manuscript of the Old Testament on paper.
Source: The Paper Project: a
new light on paper
Modern Origin of Toilet Paper
In our age,  Joseph
Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857. His new toilet paper was composed of flat sheets. Before
Gayetty's invention, people tore pages out of mail order catalogs - before catalogs were common,
leaves were used. Unfortunately, Gayetty's invention failed. Walter Alcock (of Great Britain)
later developed toilet paper on a roll ( instead of in flat sheets). Again, the invention failed.
In 1867, Thomas, Edward and Clarence Scott (brothers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) were
successful at marketing toilet paper that consisted of a small roll of perforated paper . They
sold their new toilet paper from a push cart - this was the beginning of the Scott Paper Company.
Source: (Enchanted
Learning > Inventors > G)
Misc.
Irony
- These two statements appeared in separate items at happyover40.com about tax time.
- Did you hear about the man who printed his tax return out on a roll of toilet paper. When
he submitted it to the IRS, his note read, "Don't worry, it's clean".
- President Bush's new motto is "Let's Roll". Today the IRS adopted their new
motto: "Roll Um, Roll Um, Roll Um, Tax Time"
Page Created by SDA
May 14, 2002
Page last updated May 23, 2002
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