{"id":21,"date":"2017-02-09T01:44:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T01:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/tupperware\/?p=21"},"modified":"2017-02-09T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T02:00:12","slug":"who-invented-tupperware-earl-tupper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/tupperware\/uncategorized\/who-invented-tupperware-earl-tupper\/","title":{"rendered":"Who invented Tupperware? Earl Tupper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.historyhole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/05010814\/tupperware-feiert-100-geburtstag-des-unternehmensgruenders-earl-s-tupper_1_pwxhij.jpg\" width=\"2113\" height=\"1409\" \/><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/historyhole.com\/brownie-wise-tupperware-house-parties-and-female-empowerment\/<\/p>\n<p>Before inventing Tupperware, Earl Tupper was a subcontractor for DuPont&#8217;s plastics war production. In the 1940s, he began experimenting with polyethylene with the intention of\u00a0creating a commercial product. In 1947, Tupper invented what we now know as Tupperware: &#8220;an airtight, watertight&#8221; lid\u00a0and\u00a0a container made of &#8220;a tough, nonporous, and nonsmelling substance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.proquest.com.ezproxy.umw.edu\/docview\/503181662?accountid=12299\"><b>http:\/\/search.proquest.com.ezproxy.umw.edu\/docview\/503181662?accountid=12299<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/historyhole.com\/brownie-wise-tupperware-house-parties-and-female-empowerment\/ Before inventing Tupperware, Earl Tupper was a subcontractor for DuPont&#8217;s plastics war production. In the 1940s, he began experimenting with polyethylene with the intention of\u00a0creating a commercial product. In 1947, Tupper invented what we now know as Tupperware: &#8220;an airtight, watertight&#8221; lid\u00a0and\u00a0a container made of &#8220;a tough, nonporous, and nonsmelling substance.&#8221; http:\/\/search.proquest.com.ezproxy.umw.edu\/docview\/503181662?accountid=12299<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/tupperware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/tupperware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/tupperware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/tupperware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/tupperware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/tupperware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/tupperware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/tupperware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/tupperware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftech.mcclurken.org\/tupperware\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}