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<\/p>\nPretty much every office and every home has some in the kitchen drawer.<\/p>\n
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First of all used to waterproof military aircraft, Cling Film (polyvinylidene chloride) has been a world-wide hit.<\/p>\n
It was actually invented way back in 1933 by Ralph Wiley, a science student attached to Dow Chemicals. He discovered a compound which was very difficult to remove from laboratory glassware, and jokingly named it ‘Eonite’ after an indestructible material in the comic strip Little Orphan Annie.<\/p>\n
Introduced to the market as an anti-corrosion coating by Dow Chemicals, the product really took off a miracle food wrap in 1953, when people went Cling Film crazy and stuffed their trollies full of the elastic plastic.<\/p>\n
Now we can hardly imagine life without this indispensable invention, as we jam it into the top of a bottle of wine as a makeshift cork, or wrap up our paint brushes up at the end of a hard day\u2019s decorating.<\/p>\n
You can even wrap it round your shampooed and conditioned locks for a cheap beauty treatment. Thanks Ralph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pretty much every office and every home has some in the kitchen drawer. First of all used to waterproof military aircraft, Cling Film (polyvinylidene chloride) has been a world-wide hit. It was actually invented way back in 1933 by Ralph Wiley, a science student attached to Dow Chemicals. He discovered a compound which was very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Catering","category-Fun"],"yoast_head":"\n