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Marion Donovan invented the disposable diaper in 1946. Marion Donovan was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1917. Her father and uncle invented the south blend lathe used for grinding automobile gears. Donovan attended Rosemont College. She graduated in 1939 with a BA in English literature. She resigned from her job of being a assistant beauty editor. She moved to Westport, Connecticut and started a family with her husband James Donovan. Donovan struggled with her babies exasperating habit of nearly instantaneously wetting their diapers. Donovan earned over a dozen patents in all for her invention