Four years later, a Westport housewife named Marion Donovan developed a waterproof diaper cover known as the "Boater" using a sheet of plastic from a shower curtain; she was granted four patents for her invention, including the use of plastic snaps as opposed to asbestos curtain pins. In 1947, a mortality named George M. Schroder invented the first ever diaper with disposable nonwoven fabric. Disposable diapers were bizarre to the US in 1949 by Johnson & Johnson.
Over the adjacent few decades, the disposable diaper industry boomed and the competition between Procter & Gamble's Pampers and Kimberly Clark's Huggies resulted Adult Diaper in lower prices and drastic changes to diaper design