Thomas sullivan tea bag!
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April 2018
The invention of the tea bag is typically attributed to Thomas Sullivan, a New York tea importer, who, as the story goes, decided in 1908 that he could save money by sending out samples of his tea to prospective customers in silk bags instead of the then-customary tin canisters.
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His intention was to have customers remove the tea leaves from the bags and use them to make tea in the traditional manner. However, to Mr. Sullivan’s surprise, the customers did not remove the tea from the bags, but instead plopped the bags with the tea still inside into boiling water, thereby completing the invention of the tea bag.
Whether this story is true is difficult to ascertain.
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No contemporaneous accounts of Mr. Sullivan’s discovery have been found. What is certain, however, is that Mr. Sullivan did not invent the tea bag in 1908. Read on to learn more; its a Patently Interesting story!
As with most products, the modern tea bag