Before a 19th-century Connecticut inventor named Washington Wentworth Sheffield came up with the idea of using a collapsible lead tube for long-term toothpaste storage, people used to keep the stuff ...

Dainty but durable, elegant yet affordable — this was Washington Sheffield’s vision for toothpaste in a tube, first conceived in the 1870s out of his New London dental practice. From his Broad Street ...

Up until the year 1892, anyone who wished to clean their teeth had one procedure: They would dip their toothbrushes into a porcelain jar of dental cream. At least one local dentist, Dr. Washington ...

Toothpaste tubes count among the worst-designed packaging on the shelf today. Even those of you who are meticulous about squeezing from the bottom wind up wasting toothpaste simply because it’s too ...