Tuesday, July 10, 2007

SciTech Spotlight

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Edward H. Lowe, the inventor of Kitty Litter. In 1947, Lowe suggested the use of the clay instead of ashes for his neighbor's cat's box to avoid sooty paw prints. It worked well and Lowe thought other cat owners would use this new cat-box filler. He filled ten brown bags with clay, wrote the name "Kitty Litter" on them and began selling it through the local pet store. By 1990, his marketing effort had grown into a clay mining and consumer product business.

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