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They warn you on the box not to insert these things in your ear canal, but it sure beats what the inventor's wife used prior to his creation. Q-Tips were invented in the 1920's by a Polish-born American named Leo Gerstenzang. It seems that Leo's lovely and beautiful wife had rigged up a different device to clean their baby's ears at bathtime - a toothpick stuck into a piece of cotton.
Apparently Q.T. is derived from quiet and originated in the 19th century, although its provenance is not certain. From phrases.org.uk: The slang term 'qt' is a shortened form of 'quiet'.There's no definitive source for the phrase 'on the q.t.', although it appears to be of 19th century British origin-not, as is often supposed, American.orld Wide Words cites the use of QT as an abbreviation as a clear sign that the origin must have been US, based on abbreviationism being a known linguistic feature of late 19th-century American English.