Following on from our recent note regarding ‘A Time/Cost Assessment of Toilet-Paper Folding, Worldwide’ may we also recommend a non-exhaustive selection of other toilet paper papers which may be perused at your convenience :- ● A System for Identifying Toilet User by Characteristics of Paper Roll Rotation ● Objective Hand Measurement of Toilet Paper ● […]
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A Time/Cost Assessment of Toilet-Paper Folding, Worldwide
Three Swedish researchers spent time estimating the aggregate time spent folding the corners of toilet paper. They published this study (which tells only their estimate of how much time those other people spent folding, but does not disclose how much time the authors spent calculating and writing): “It is worth 10 million working hours a year […]
Moodie’s Toilet-Paper Safe [patent]
Last week we looked at Ives’s modern paper safe. Today we present Moodie’s 19th-century toilet-paper safe: “Toilet-Paper Safe,” Elhanan L. Moodie, US patent number: 416340, Filing date: Aug 31, 1889. It begins: “Be it known that I, Elhanan L. Moodie, of the city and State of New York, have invented aii Improvement in Toilet-Paper Safes, […]
Recycing: office-to-loo converter
Investigator Ura Daniels recommends this DigInfo News report: At Eco-Products 2009, Oriental Co., Ltd. exhibited a revolutionary recycling machine called White Goat, which makes toilet paper from shredded paper. White Goat also has a shredding machine in it…. The dry paper is wound into finished toilet rolls, which emerge from the outlet one at a […]