Female towels

It was a mixture of cotton and celulose. It existed even before the war and it was made by an American company. They’ve got the fact that this material absorbes five times more than just cotton. They started to make the cotton wool used in surgery. Soon nurses got on the idea they could use it for personal purposes. And the rest is history.

But buying this product wasn’t that successful especially if there was a male seller. So the customers were able to take them and simply leave the money at the right place.

Paper towels
These were just an extension of the previous one.

Tanning machines

1918 winter in Berlin, meant rachitis for the kids. They didn’t know why this happened, they thought it was because of poverty.
A town doctor noticed that all the patients were pale.
So he left four patients under UV lamps. And the cause of the rachitis was discovered! In Dresden they even wanted to cut the street light and point it to healing the kids!

Summer and winter time

To cut the wasting of candles Benjamin Franklin suggested this. And later on German government made everybody change from 11pm to 12pm at the 30 of April in 1916, to gain an hour of time to cut wasting coal and soon it spread from there to the world.