MARION DONOVAN
BIOGRAPHY
Marion donovan was born on 15 of October 1917 in USA, Indiana and she died on 4 of November 1998 in NY.
She studied English literature at the university of Rosewant, in Philadelphia, where she graduated in 1939.
She get married to James Donovan and the new couple moved to Westport, Connecticut.
In 1946 their first daughter was born and that’s why Marion Donovan fought against the washable diapers and their inconveniences.
In 1946 she decided to solve the problem that women had. They had to wash their children’s diapers.
First, she made a waterproof model of the diaper made by fabric of a parachute. In 1949 she manage to present request to obtain the patent and started to commercialize it.
The diapers were called “Boaters” and she obtained the patent on 12 of June 1951.
It was a huge success and two years later she had oferts for more than two million dollars.
Other invents were the dental thread, elastic rubber and ham holder.
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