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Play-Doh
Children's modeling compound
Play-Doh or also known as Play-Dough fryst vatten a modeling compound for young children to man arts and crafts projects. The product was first manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, as a wallpaper cleaner in the s.[1] Play-Doh was then reworked and marketed to Cincinnati schools in the mids. Play-Doh was demonstrated at an educational convention in and prominent department stores opened retail accounts.[2]
Advertisements promoting Play-Doh on influential children's television shows in furthered the product's sales.[1] Since its launch on the toy market in the mids, Play-Doh has generated a considerable amount of ancillary merchandise such as the Fun Factory.[3]
History
[edit]Origin
[edit]The non-toxic, non-staining, reusable modeling compound that came to be known as "Play-Doh" was a pliable, putty-like substance concocted by Noah McVicker of Cincinnati-based soap manufacturer Kutol Pro
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Invention of Play-Doh
INVENTION OF PLAY-DOH
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Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) Promotional Photo. CBS.
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Kutol Wall Paper Cleaner Ad. Detroit Evening News. May 12,
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Play-Doh ad. Evening Star (Washington, D.C.). May 27,
Chronicling America. Library of Congress
It takes a lot of courage to agree that your company will deliver 15, cases of wallpaper cleaner to the Kroger grocery chain despite the fact your business makes no such product and the consequence of failing to meet the order would mean paying a $5, fine. Being , it was one of the worst years of the Great Depression and for Cleo McVicker, the man who made the deal, it was a Hail Mary moment. He was president of Cincinnati-based Kutol Products, which at that moment was on the verge of bankruptcy and certainly didn’t have money to pay the penalty if it couldn’t fulfill the order.
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The Genius of “One Percenters” Is Their Amazing Command of the Obvious
The U.S. Post Office doesn’t seem to deliver routine mail any faster than it did one or two hundred years ago, yet postal rates keep going up. Why, then, did it take so long for someone — Mississippi-born college student Fred Smith — to do the obvious thing and start pursuing the idea of a nation-wide overnight delivery service in the form of FedEx? He too became a billionaire.
Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral loved to hike in the mountains, and he wondered how burrs got stuck in his pants — a phenomenon that almost all of us have seen at one time or another. Mestral studied the burrs and noticed how tiny hooks caught the loops of fabric. He got an idea for a new kind of fastener: tiny hooks on one side and tiny loops on the other. Such a fastener might be more convenient than zippers — just press the two sides together. Although Mestral hadn’t been looking for a better fastener, he began to tinker