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Source: The History of Drinking Straws | inventors.about.com
Description: Before his straws, beverage drinkers were using the natural rye grass straws.
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Marvin Stone patented the spiral winding process to manufacture paper drinking straws in 1888. Cheers from ChaCha!
Marvin Stone was the first man to get a patent for the winding paper we now call drinking straws. More info? ChaCha on!
Tired of drinking out of Rye grass straws, Marvin Stone in 1888, came up with the drinking straw, experimenting before landing it.
In 1888, Marvin Stone patented the spiral winding process to create the drinking straw. Before then, people used rye grass straws.
