Plastic forks were invented in the mid-1850's by Alexander Parkes. Parkes was impressed with his invention but because it never took off, he soon went bankrupt.
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In Tuscany, where forks were first invented, before their were forks the upper class used three finger s t oeat and the lower class used five fingers.
The first forks came from the Middle East prior to the year 1000. from there it made its way through the Byzantine empire then moving on through southern in the 14th century Europe where it became popular there in the 14th century, it became popular in northern Europe during the 16th century and spread to the rest of the word from there
The first human-made plastic was invented by Alexander Parkes in 1862; he called this plastic Parkesine. The development of plastics has come from the use of natural plastic materials (e.g., chewing gum, shellac) to the use of chemically modified natural materials (e.g., rubber, nitrocellulose, collagen, galalite) and finally to completely synthetic molecules (e.g., bakelite, epoxy, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene).
it was invented in 2134 you swine.
They were invented in Ancient Egypt.