Born 28 Mar 1897; died 1 Nov 1997 at age 100.
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American chemical engineer who Invented #Pampers disposable diapers. He joined #Proctor&Gamble company in 1926, and soon after developed a continuous process to superheat the liquid #soap and spray it in concentrated form through an extruder producing bars of Ivory soap. That cut the production time from seven days to just a couple of hours.
He improved Duncan Hines #cake mixes by passing ingredients through large milling drums designed to polish aluminum foil but made the finished cake less lumpy.
He developed a process for preventing the #oil from separating in Jif peanut #butter.
His invention of disposable #diapers as a product was created to utilize the clean, absorbent paper available from a pulp mill acquired by the company.
