What’s a Barf Bag?

Gilmore T. Schjeldahl, a self-taught inventor from North Dakota, is credited with creating the first plastic-coated airsickness bag, which debuted on Northwest Oriental Airlines planes in 1949. The vomit bag provides a discreet option for passengers experiencing motion sickness, anxiety or claustrophobia. Schjeldahl developed the plastic-coated paper bag for food packaging, which turned out to […]

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