Cannon Mills was the largest manufacturer of towels and sheets in the world. From Dog Patch to Park Avenue, Cannon, as a branded product, was as universal as McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, and Ford.
New inventions impact society in many ways. In 1876, when the telephone first appeared no one thought that one day billions of telephones would we carried in someone’s pocket and be usable everyplace on earth. Postcards of monkeys with telephones remind us of that era.