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Interesting Inventions - The disposable nappy

Magdalena Laue, from Halle in Germany, devised a one-piece waterproof nappy made from India rubber in the 1890s.

(And landfill has never been the same again.)

!Note - A nappy is BrE, it is called a diaper in AmE.

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