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Did you know that most people are said to use blue toothbrushes over any other color? However, that was not the case in 3500 BC when Babylonians used chewing sticks to clean their teeth. Let's just assume those sticks were not dyed blue like your bluish granite and marble countertops. These large sticks removed shreds of meat and vegetables in between teeth just like a toothpick today. Speaking of that, maybe we can always find blue toothbrushes on granite countertops in New Jersey.
To get the picture, get a pencil and put it on your marble granite countertops. Strip the lead, eraser, and the company's engraved name. Now, it's bare-naked and that looks like the ancient toothbrush. These sticks have aromatic scents which were chewed on one end until shredded. The shredded end of the stick will then be used like a modern-day toothbrush. The other end, however, is pointed and used like a toothpick.
Moving forward, the design of the toothbrush as we know it today appeared in China around 1500 AD. The neck and body of these toothbrushes were made from bamboo and the bristles came from hairs of animals like pig. The same idea occurred to a prisoner who used to sleep on a muddy floor, which seemed to have served as inspiration to granite countertop installation NJ-based companies for marble tile installation.
Jailed because of causing a riot, William Addis of Clerkenwald, England drilled holes on an animal bone and glued the bristles. He then used it to clean his teeth substituting the then popular rag and salt teeth cleaners. After he served his time, he capitalized on the idea, marketed on it, and the first-modern day toothbrush was born in 1780. His invention was very popular that dentists recommended the use of it.
The toothbrush became popular in America through the efforts of H.N. Wadsworth. He patented the toothbrush in 1857. Wadsworth used boar's hair as bristles but consumers felt it was disgusting and inefficient as hair would frequently come off the toothbrush.
In the 1937, Du Pont's Wallace H. Carothers used nylon bristles and was massively accepted. It gave a cleaner feel and taste. The electronic brush, on the other hand, was introduced in 1939 in Switzerland. But it was not until 1960 that Squibb Company widely produced electronic toothbrushes in the US. The first ever rechargeable electronic toothbrush was introduced in 1961.
