Modern day basic plastic toothbrush
The Toothbrush
After a history of frayed twigs and salt and soot covered rags, the Toothbrush revolutionised the world’s way of cleaning teeth. While in prison, William Addis of England drilled holes in a bone and filled them with bristles to scrape unwanted plaque and food from his teeth, creating the toothbrush. In 1870 he mass-produced his innovative range of ‘toothbrushes’ that provided an efficient clean and reached those harder to reach places. From then on the world has never looked back and In 2003 the toothbrush was selected as the number one invention Americans could not live without according to the Lemelson-MIT Invention Index.
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