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Nappy Disposal
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Moo was a young mother stuck in a small cornish village tried to bypass a lack of laundering facilities by inventing disposable nappies for her little baby.
Sadly, the end result was that the entire main drain of a Cornish village was blocked with impacted nappies.
Nevertheless Moo Morris-Jones showed the same never-say die attitude as John Walker did last week and even sought to alert Proctor and Gambol to the possibilities of cellulose wadding hoping they might mass manufacture them... but it was years before the first disposable nappy hit the shelves.
Muriel did not think to patent her idea but has patented other things since. Annette knows what....
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