Earl Silas Tupper

Earl Silas Tupper (born July 28, 1907 in Berlin , New Hampshire , † October 5, 1983 in Costa Rica ) was an American inventor and founder of the Tupperware group named after him .

Life

Tupper was born on a small family farm in Berlin (New Hampshire) , USA . His father, Earnest Leslie Tupper, worked on the farm and his mother, Lulu Clark Tupper, helped out in a wash house and boarding house. Tupper graduated from school in 1925 and then worked on the family farm. After a while he went into business for himself ; his company went bankrupt in 1936. He then worked for the chemical company DuPont for two years .

With his Earl S. Tupper Company he manufactured plastic products from 1938 and initially sold them in retail. Brownie Wise, who noticed this, came up with the idea of marketing Tupperware from house to house via Tupperware parties . She suggested to Earl Tupper to take his products out of retail and to sell them immediately through direct marketing. In this way, it enabled housewives to enter professional life in the 1950s. Earl and Brownie built up the global sales of its plastic products from 1951. Before Tupper retired from active business in 1958, he sold the company. Earl Tupper died in Costa Rica in 1983.

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Even as a child, Tupper made a number of inventions. He later experimented with polyethylene and discovered a material that was flexible and transparent, but neither brittle nor porous. He also invented a lid that can be used to seal a plastic box airtight and watertight. He had this invention patented in 1949.

Web links

• Earl Silas Tupper at pbs.org (English)