The First Teabag...

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

From this site, you all are getting a lot of information about many, first invented things and also about the persons who invented it. And our today's post is about the first invented "Tea bag". Tea bags were invented by Thomas Sullivan around 1908. The first bags were made from silk. Sullivan was a tea and coffee merchant in New York who began packaging tea sample in tiny silk bags, but many customers brewed the tea in them (the tea-filled bag was placed directly into the boiling water where the tea brewed, instead of the traditional way of brewing loose tea in a teapot). Later tea bags were made of thin paper. Thus i think that you have got a lot of info about the first invented teabag. In our next post we will see about the invention of different items...

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