ocr: Their inventor, Charles Stilwell, gave them the name S.O.S. - Self Opening Sacks. But a brown paper bag by any other name is still a brown paper bag. In the summer of1883 Stilwell created the first machine to produce paper bags. Paper bags existed before this machine, but they were V-shaped and made by hand. Stilwell's bags became popular because they had flat bottoms and could stand on their own, making them the perfect container for filling with groceries at the market. In the Alli isolated 1930S, the development of the supermarket created the Series objectsi Object in have a bigger demand f ...