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When was the tea bag invented?
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#3011. Asked by lipton.
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dave_fl
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1908 American tea importer Thomas Sullivan decides to cut costs, and send tea samples to clients in small quantities contained in small silk bags. Not knowing what to do, they placed the whole bag into boiling water, and the tea bag was invented.
Actually the tea-ball was intentionally invented, and the Gertrude H. Ford Tea Company still puts whole tea leaves into tied tea-balls.
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zbeckabee

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The first tea bags were made from hand-sewn silk muslin bags and tea bag patents of this sort exist dating as early as 1903. First appearing commercially around 1904, tea bags were successfully marketed by tea and coffee shop merchant Thomas Sullivan from New York, who shipped his tea bags around the world. Modern tea bags are usually made of paper fiber.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_bag#History
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