Why Are Legal Pads Yellow?
为什么信笺是黄色的?
The legal pad got its start with Thomas Holley in 1888. Holley was 24 and working at a paper mill in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Every day, he and his co-workers threw out a lot of scrap pieces, called sortings, left over from cutting paper into the right sized sheets. He knew there had to be a use for them and eventually hit on the idea of cutting the sortings to the same size and binding them into small notepads. Since the paper was essentially trash to the mill, they could sell the pads at low prices.
1888年,Thomas Holley创造了信笺。24岁的他在马萨诸塞州霍利约克的一家造纸厂工作。每天他和同事们都会扔掉很多被称为“边角余料”的废料,这些废料是将纸张切成合适大小的尺寸后剩下的部分。他知道它们一定有用武之地,最终想到了一个好点子,就是把这些“边角余料”切成统一尺寸并装订成记事本。因为这些纸张对造纸厂来说就是垃圾,所以他们可以以很低的价格出售这种小本子。
The first few batches of pads sold so well that Holley quit his job at the mill and started his own company—Ampad, or the American Pad and Paper Company—to collect scraps from the local mills and manufacture and sell his pads. His company still exists, and they still manufacture notepads in a variety of sizes and shapes. And colors.
最初的几批记事本卖得非常好,以至于Holley辞去了造纸厂的工作,成立了自己的公司Ampad(即美国记事本及纸业公司),从当地造纸厂收集废料后,生产、销售小记事本。这家公司目前仍然存在,仍在生产各种大小和形状,还有不同颜色的记事本。
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