History of pampers
Right at the end of XIX century in the city of Milford, that in American state Nebraska, in modest Millz family the boy was born. He has received a proud name Victor from his parents. The childhood of our hero is noted by a little essential achievements.
Further there was a military service on the American fleet, concurrent on time with the first world war, then he worked as a welder. He studied at George Washington’s university at chemical technology.
From the moment of the ending of study (1926) and before retire (1961) Millz was working at Procter and Gamble company, showing miracles of an ingenuity in a post of the leading chemist-technologist.
Nevertheless his life did not consist at all of one work. The daughter was born, and after some decades Millz became the grandfather. As there was not one grandson, Millz had to help her daughter in his free time. We can imagine the thoughts of a grandfather who had to pull out wet diapers from his own grandsons, wash and dry them.
Millz has created an idea that it was possible not to wash them. It was necessary to throw out! And on this idea of the great chemist we shall for a short while stop our attention. The idea of a disposable diaper was born not because grandfather Victor wished to improve a life of the grandsons. The essence of Millz invention has been dictated by man’s egoism, elementary aspiration to facilitate a life to himself.
So, house torments of Millz have led him to mobilize several employees that the idea has received a practical embodiment.
The primary goal was a creation of a folded lining with high absorbing ability. And this lining was planned to place in plastic cowards of the special form.
First models Millz has tested on his own grandsons. In general he tested everything on his family. His wife and daughter perfectly remembered that time when everybody was cleaning their teeth with a tooth-powder, and they did it by a liquid tooth-paste that was thought up by Millz.
Home tests have confirmed a perspectivity of idea, so then it was necessary to create an experimental batch and to look how the American population would react to a new product.
The population has reacted extremely negatively and the idea of disposable diapers was nearly to die.
It was difficult to think up conditions for tests more adverse. Disposable diapers have tried to use in the summer in the city of Dallas when the temperature did not fall below 90F. It is rather easy to imagine now the reaction of parents who, in the described weather conditions, have been proposed, to dress on the child plastic cowards. And few agreed daredevils very quickly stopped experiments with babies as the irritation of a skin arose almost instantly.
But as it is known bad result is also a result. Fortunately, developers didn’t feel utterly discouraged. As a result, March, 1959 became date in the history of the mankind which has marked first successful mass use of disposable diapers.
The experimental batch has been prepared for this time from 37 thousand diapers. Founders have refused the dense plastic that nearly has not ruined good undertaking, the product became softer, the lining absorbed a moisture is better, moreover it was offered at once two variants on buttons and on stickums. The city of Rochester of state of New York was the place for experiments. Two thirds of the families, that participated in experiment, have admitted that fact, that new disposable diapers, for certain, are not worse old and habitual reusable. They liked the model with buttons more.
There were two tasks : first, to think up of the product name and and the second thing was to create the equipment for mass production of disposable diapers.
With the first task not without difficulties of course, but coped quickly enough. Having touched set of variants, a diaper was named “Pampers” using as a basis an English word “pamper”, that means “to indulge”. Some people like other variants of translation more - “to cherish, “coddle”, but it does not change an essence of business.
The second task was much serious. Some technologists even assure, that, at least, in long-term history of Procter and Gamble there was nothing more difficult than that. At first sight all is elementary: there are three layers which should be stuck together. But when from a lining the heap of a dust is formed, and this dust incorporates to glue and scatters in all the sides any equipment very quickly stops to be the equipment. Nevertheless, the technology of product could finally be improved, and pampers began the victorious procession all over the world. Firstly it (procession) was not so such impetuous, and the main brake of this promotion was the price of a product. Pampers liked parents, but, in view of the price in 10 cents for a unit, economical Americans were ready to continue washing.
And only after the volume of production grew in some times, the price has satisfied all - both buyers and manufacturers. The ripened revolutionary situation has predetermined a full and unconditional victory of disposable diapers over greater pleasure of all progressive mankind.