The modern drinking straw was patented in 1888 by Marvin C. Stone.
However, the straw is believed to go back to the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia, who used natural materials to form cylindrical drinking funnels so they could drink beer - doing to through a straw helped them avoid the sediments left over from the fermentation process.
Straws used for drinking liquids were made from rye-grass, and tended to give drinks a grassy flavour, so weren't very popular, even though they were practical.
The modern drinking straw was actually patented on 3 December 1888 by Marvin Chester Stone who was employed at a paper cigarette holder factory in Washington DC. He used a fine piece of paper from the cigarette holder factory, rolled it around a pencil then coated it in wax to prevent it becoming waterlogged.
Scarletino a french man who wanted to make drinking easier since he always got drunk at bars cause he got divorced at the time.
The basic principles of a drinking straw are very old, probably dating back to pre-historic times. The straw is believed to go back to the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia, who used natural materials to form cylindrical drinking funnels so they could drink beer - doing to through a straw helped them avoid the sediments left over from the fermentation process. Straws used for drinking liquids were made from rye-grass, and tended to give drinks a grassy flavour, so weren't very popular, even though they were practical. The modern drinking straw was actually patented on 3 December 1888 by Marvin Chester Stone who was employed at a paper cigarette holder factory in Washington DC. He used a fine piece of paper from the cigarette holder factory, rolled it around a pencil then coated it in wax to prevent it becoming waterlogged. Also, see the related link.
No, because they were made of straw.
There was a real Saint Patrick who did live in Ireland, although he was not of Irish descent. For years, St. Patrick\'s Day was a religious holiday in Ireland. It was only in America in the 1970s that it was invented into the drinking holiday it is today.
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The drinking straw as we know it today was invented in 1888 by Marvin Stone.
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the chinese invented the straw made of bamboo
It was a man named Joseph Friedman, who patented the flexible drinking straw in 1937.
Marvin Chester Stone invented the drinking straw because he didn't like the earlier invention of drinking straws by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia where they used dry, hollow, rye-grass as drinking straw's. He believed it made beverages taste like grass.
The modern drinking straw was patented on 3 December 1888 by Marvin Chester Stone who was employed at a paper cigarette holder factory in Washington DC. He invented the drinking straw by using a fine piece of paper from the cigarette holder factory, rolled it around a pencil then coated it in wax to prevent it becoming waterlogged.
Drinking from a straw can cause you to swallow air, which may lead to bloating.
No, not a drinking straw. As for straw as in grass, I guess someone could eat that.
The modern drinking straw was patented on 3 December 1888 by Marvin Chester Stone.
Historians have four that the earliest drinking straw was made by Sumerians for drinking beer. It was used to avoid the solid byproducts of fermentation.
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It is prehistoric.