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Gerstenzang

One day in 1923, Leo Gerstenzang found himself watching his wife applying cotton wads to toothpicks in an attempt to reach hard-to-clean areas. Gerstenzang, inspired, had soon produced a one-piece cotton swab.

Gerstenzang's initial name for what became the Q-tip? Baby Gays.


Gerstenzang, Leo (?-    ) American inventor [noted for invention of the Q-tip]

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