Earl Tupper

Earl Silas Tupper ( born July 28, 1907 in Berlin, New Hampshire, † October 5, 1983 in Costa Rica ) was an American inventor and founder of the eponymous Tupperware Group.

Life

Tupper was born on a small family farm in Berlin ( New Hampshire), USA. His father Earnest Leslie Tupper worked on the farm and his mother Lulu Clark Tupper helped in a wash house and a guest house. Tupper joined the school in 1925 and then worked on the family farm. After some time he started his own business, his company went bankrupt in 1936. He then worked for two years at the chemical company DuPont.

With its Earl S. Tupper Company, he presented from 1938 fro plastic products and drove them first in retail. Brownie Wise, who noticed this, came up with the idea of ​​Tupperware from there to market via Tupperware parties from house to house. She beat Earl Tupper right to take its products from the retail and to sell them now only on direct marketing. Thus it allowed in the 50s housewives, also enter into the workforce. Earl and Brownie built in 1951 worldwide sales of its plastic products. Before Tupper in 1958 retired from active business, he sold the company. Earl Tupper died in 1983 in Costa Rica.

Work

Even as a child made ​​Tupper several inventions. Later he experimented with polyethylene and discovered a material that was flexible and transparent, but neither brittle nor porous. He also invented a lid, which can be used a plastic box sealed airtight and watertight. This invention he had patented in 1949.

  • Engineer, inventor, engineer
  • Americans
  • Born 1907
  • Died in 1983
  • Man
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