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	Inventor Earl Tupper
		Earl Silas Tupper was born in 1907, to a New Hampshire farming family of modest means.
		Earnest Tupper loved to tinker, developing labor-saving devices for the farm and family greehouses; one of his devices, a frame to faciliate the cleaning of chickens, was granted a patent.
		Tupper was an ambitious young man, though, and he was was determined to earn his first million by the time he was thirty.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/tupper.htm (1388 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Earl Tupper
		Earl Silas Tupper (July 28, 1907–October 5, 1983) was the inventor of Tupperware, an airtight plastic container for storing food.
		Using inflexible pieces of polyethylene slag given to him by DuPont, Tupper purified the slag and molded it to create lightweight, non-breakable containers, cups, bowls, plates, and even gas masks that were used in World War II.
		Tupper later founded the Tupperware Plastics Company in 1938, and in 1946, he introduced Tupper Plastics to hardware and department stores.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Earl_Tupper (367 words)

	American Experience \| Tupperware! \| People & Events \| PBS
		Earl Tupper was a dreamer and a tinkerer who liked to improve the things he saw around him.
		After World War II, Tupper received a block of polyethylene from DuPont, which was hoping plastics manufacturers would invent peacetime uses for the new material the company had developed during the war.
		Brownie Wise and Earl Tupper were an odd, but perfect, match.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/tupperware/peopleevents/p_tupper.html (1252 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Earl Silas Tupper was born on a farm in New Hampshire in 1907.
		Tupper rose to the occasion first by inventing a method to transform polyethylene slag, a fl, malodorous by-product of the crude oil refinement process, into a plastic that was resilient, solid, and grease-free, but also clean, clear and translucent.
		By 1946, Tupper was marketing his home products, which now came in a range of bright colors: cases for cigarettes, tumblers for the bathroom, and containers for leftovers.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/tupper.html (635 words)

	Tupper, Earl - Farmer and Tree Surgeon, An Interest in Plastics
		Earl Silas Tupper was born in 1907, the only child of Ernest Tupper, a farmer, and Lulu Tupper, who supplemented the farm income by running a boarding house and taking in laundry.
		Earl Tupper didn't like to use the word "plastic"; to describe his creation, which he always referred to as Poly-T. He felt plastic had a bad reputation due to its earlier faults, and wanted to emphasize the clear difference between his product and the plastics known to consumers in the past.
		Tupper felt Wise was getting too much publicity and Wise had a hard time convincing Tupper to try her new business ideas, which she felt were crucial to success.
	www.referenceforbusiness.com /businesses/M-Z/Tupper-Earl.html (1481 words)

	Tupperware MediaRoom - Press Releases
		Tupper’s sturdy, yet lightweight and flexible "Poly-T" material was probably first used in the production of gas masks that American G.I.’s wore on the battlefields of Europe.
		Thus the “Tupperized‿ kitchen was born; a kitchen that was well-organized and neat, and featured a variety of containers that replaced unsightly open packages and that kept food fresher, longer.
		Her demonstration and sales techniques were so effective that in 1951, Tupper brought her into his company to establish and build the direct selling method that has made the Tupperware party as famous as the products themselves.
	tupperware.mediaroom.com /index.php/press_releases/16 (1846 words)

	Tupperware History - Invention of Tupperware
		Earl Tupper knew immediately that Polyethylene, the new plastic that was formulated in 1942, was exactly what he had been looking for over the past several years.
		Tupper was able to sell his company for approximately sixteen million dollars and retire for life.
		Wise was so successful demonstrating and selling Tupper's plastics that he brought her into his company in 1951 to build the direct selling system that has made the Tupperware party almost as famous as his products.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/story035.htm (824 words)

	sig.biz/combibloc \| Portrait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Earl Silas Tupper was born in 1907 in New Hampshire.
		Earl was an ambitious young man and wanted to earn his first million by the time he was 30.
		Tupper was inspired for this idea by the lid of a paint tin, which he used upside down, and the "wonderbowl" went on the market in 1946.
	www.sig.biz /combibloc/en/02h_13_001.html (937 words)

	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It honors the memory of Earl Silas Tupper, a pioneer in the plastic industry and recognized as an inventor, researcher and brilliant businessman.
		The Tupper Research Center includes offices and laboratories for a wide spectrum of disciplines such as chemistry, histology, plant physiology, acoustic communication, and entomology; an herbarium; a scanning electron microscope; computer and instrument rooms; and a bookstore.
		The Tupper Conference Center includes a 176-seat auditorium and exhibit hall, with facilities for simultaneous translation; meeting rooms for seminars, education programs and local and international conferences; a gallery for temporary exhibitions; and a small cafeteria.
	www.stri.org /english/research/facilities/tupper/index.php (193 words)

	Tupperware, Inc. - All about Plastic, The Invention of Poly-T, Meeting Brownie Wise
		Earl Tupper formed his first company, the Earl S. Tupper Company, in 1938, after working in the plastics division of DuPont, a scientific research company, for one year.
		Meanwhile, Tupper was experimenting with polyethylene (pronounced pah-lee-eh-thuh-leen) slag, a smelly, greasy, and breakable material left behind after the process of refining oil.
		Earl Tupper dies of a heart attack at age seventy-six.
	www.referenceforbusiness.com /businesses/M-Z/Tupperware-Inc.html (1943 words)

	History of Tupperware
		Tupper was a chemist and inventor who worked in a DuPont chemical plant in 1937 where he was involved with that company's experiments with plastics before World War II.
		Earl took a block of polyethylene slag, a waste product of the oil refining process, and did what no one had done before him - he purified it and turned it into a moldable plastic.
		Earl Tupper and Brownie Wise, a pair of geniuses in their respective areas, became a team and dedicated the company to the home party plan.
	www.larissabrown.com /history.cfm (798 words)

	Story - A Smithsonian Tupperware party
		In December 1984, The Tupper Foundation -- the foundation started by Earl Tupper -- gave $4 million to the Smithsonian's Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
		Earl Tupper's papers were donated to the Museum of American History -- papers that Clarke relied on to research her book.
		In May 1993, the Tupper Foundation also gave $200,000 to the archives collection at the museum, where Earl Tupper's papers are housed.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /util/printready.asp?id=1505 (728 words)

	Exploding Plastic Inevitable
		By 1939 Tupper had founded his own company; by the early forties he was designing his own plastic housewares, using a versatile new form of polyethylene that had originally been developed for wartime industries.
		Tupper's great innovation (for which he applied for a patent in 1947) was the "Tupper seal," based on the inversion of a paint-can lid, which created an air- and liquid-tight closure (emitting the famous "Tupperware burp") and became the core of a mass-producible system of unbreakable, stackable, generic containers in a variety of "sculptural" shapes.
		The Tupper seal "transformed the product from a flexible plastic bowl to a patentable technological form"--and made it possible for Tupper to project his entire line of products as exemplars of a social ideal that combined beauty, affordability and efficiency--to, in effect, bring modernity within reach of the average household.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19991227/jacobson (691 words)

	Plastics Gone Soft
		Tupper’s success played a small part in one of the great growth industries of postwar America: plastics.
		Tupper concluded that the plastic containers were unfamiliar and needed explaining.
		Earl Tupper sold his company to Rexall Drug in 1958 for more than $4 million worth of Rexall stock.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF0504/Samuelson/Samuelson.html (4120 words)

	American Experience \| Tupperware! \| Gallery \| PBS
		Earl Tupper grew up dirt poor and never got beyond high school.
		Earl fancied himself to be the next Thomas Edison or Henry Ford.
		Earl sent letters and prototypes to companies all over the country, hoping to sell his inventions.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/tupperware/gallery/index.html (147 words)

	Tupperware St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Earl Tupper (1907-1983), inveterate experimenter from Harvard, Massachusetts, used his experience in 1937 working for Dupont to develop his own kind of plastic,; which he used to make all types of products.
		Tupper's most famous and effective innovation, in 1947, was a set of storage canisters with resealable lids that could be "burped" to let out and keep out excess air.
		Tupper's plastic products were not only utilitarian, but also materially seductive.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101252 (808 words)

	Mass Moments: Tupperware Inventor Born
		...in 1907, Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware, was born.
		Tupper was a poor student; in fact, he barely graduated from high school.
		Earl Tupper was a gifted engineer but a difficult man with no interest in or knack for public relations.
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=219 (1042 words)

	All Tuppered out (Metro Times Detroit)
		Earl Silas Tupper was born in Berlin, N.H., in 1907.
		Success notwithstanding, she and Earl Tupper never reconciled their differences, much like the differences that exist in our national character, between thrift and excess, piety and partying down.
		In tones of moral superiority, Tupper accused Wise of betraying the corporate ethos and endangering the Tupperware reputation; she had been observed, by an unnamed source, using a Tupperware bowl as a dog dish in her glamorous lakeside home.
	www.metrotimes.com /20/25/Features/culTuppered.htm (1042 words)

	Tupperware Company Profile
		Self-styled Yankee trader and inventor Earl Tupper of Berlin, New Hampshire, invented a method of purifying a by-product of the oil refining process into a material that was durable, flexible, odourless, non-toxic and lightweight.
		Tupper introduced his new line in 1946 through department and hardware stores, but consumers were not accustomed to high-quality plastic products and did not understand how to apply Tupperware's unique seal.
		Wise was so successful demonstrating and selling Tupper's plastics that he brought Wise into his company in 1951 to build the direct selling system that has made the Tupperware party as famous as the products themselves.
	www.tupperware.co.nz /dir064/webnz.nsf/pages/companyprofile (753 words)

	Five Decades of Change
		Just prior to its consumer introduction in 1946, inventor Earl Tupper's plastics like the materials of many manufacturers were dedicated to the war effort.
		Tupper's first consumer plastic products the Wonderlier Bowl and Bell Tumbler offered a unique benefit that traditional food containers did not they were lighter and less likely to break than traditional glass and crockery.
		In 1946, Tupper introduced his legendary airtight seals patterned after the inverted rim on a can of paint which prevented food from drying out, wilting or losing its flavor in the now-common refrigerator.
	order.tupperware.com /coe/app/tup_company.decades?fv_item_category_code=80000 (1245 words)

	Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America. - Review - book review Journal of Social History - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Clarke draws on Earl Tupper's diaries and invention notebooks, company records and promotional materials, and oral histories from Tupperware dealers, in her examination of one of the postwar era's most unique products and corporations.
		Tupper, Clarke claims, had less in common with the industrial designers among whom MOMA placed him than with the visionary inventor-engineers of the nineteenth century.
		Although Wise believed her extravagance was essential to Tupperware's success, Tupper grew increasingly unhappy with the expense and style of her management, particularly as it overshadowed his product.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2005/is_1_34/ai_65576705 (838 words)

	Business Binder - Welcome
		Earl Tupper, inventor and entrepreneur, had a goal to provide the consumer with a quality plastic product.
		Earl put Brownie in charge of developing a home party sales force, and Tupperware parties became a cultural phenomenon.
		Earl Tupper focused on developing a product that was not only useful, but thrifty, and would save the consumer money.
	my2.tupperware.com /ccm-html/businessbinder/welcome.htm (905 words)

	AlterNet: A Smithsonian Tupperware Party
		But for years, Americans were not impressed with plastics or Earl Tupper's food containers.
		Earl Tupper's papers were donated to the Smithsonian's Museum of American history -- papers that Clarke relied on to research her book.
		In May 1993, the Tupper Foundation also gave $200,000 to the archives collection at the Museum of American History, where Earl Tupper's papers are housed.
	www.alternet.org /story/980 (1040 words)

	Technology, invention, and innovation collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Earnest Tupper loved to tinker, developing labor-saving devices for the farm and family greenhouses; one of his devices, a frame to facilitate the cleaning of chickens, was granted a patent.
		Later, Tupper would say it was at Dupont “that my education really began.” Tupper took the experience he had gained in plastics design and manufacturing at DuPont, and struck out on his own.
		Tupper experimented with department store sales, but as Businessweek magazine reported in 1954, “in retail stores it fell flat on its face.” It seemed clear that the new lid required explanation or demonstration.
	americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d8470b.htm (846 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tupperware: Books: Alison Clarke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yet since the late 1940s, when it was invented by Earl Tupper (who envisioned the product as both an emblem and agent of postwar household cleanliness and thrift), Tupperware has changed the lives of millions of women who not only used it but found personal and economic freedom as Tupperware salespeople.
		When Earl Silas Tupper invented the process for making the product in 1942, he was able to get his wares distributed to department stores nationally, but sales were quite low.
		Early on, Clarke appears to be concerned mainly with outlining the historical circumstances of Earl Tupper, the inventor of Tupperware.
	www.amazon.ca /Tupperware-Promise-Plastic-1950s-America/dp/1560988274 (1747 words)

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