Earl Silas Tupper (July 28, 1907 – October 3, 1983) was an American businessman and inventor, best known as the inventor of Tupperware, an airtight plastic container for storing food, and for founding the related home products company that bears his name, Tupperware Plastics Company.
Early life and career
Tupper was born on a farm in Berlin, New Hampshire. The Tupper family moved when he was three years old, spending the rest of his youth growing up on different farms in central Massachusetts.[1]
After studying at Bryant College (now Bryant University) in Providence, Rhode Island, he began a landscaping and nursery business until the Great Depression forced the business into bankruptcy. He then got a job with the DuPont chemical company.[2]