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How did people come up with the idea of cardboard boxes? Was it scientifically thought or was it an accident? The history of packaging and the evolution of bags is a long and fascinating tale. Let's explore the evolution of packaging.
History of Cardboard
The origin of cardboard and the various stages of changes and growth.
According to the history books, the first cardboard (or more specifically paperboard) box was invented in 1817 in England by the firm M.Treverton & Son. Cardboard box packaging was made the same year in Germany.
The First Fold-Up Box
The telephone, television, and tarmac were all invented by Scotsmen, he also had his hand in the development of cardboard boxes. Scottish-born Robert Gair invented the pre-cut cardboard box in 1890 – flat pieces manufactured in bulk that folded into shape. Gair's invention was the result of a happy accident. He was a Brooklyn printer and paper-bag maker during the 1870s, and one day, while he was printing an order of seed bags, a metal ruler normally used to create the bags shifted in position and cut through them. Gair discovered that by cutting and creasing at the same time he could make prefabricated paperboard boxes. Applying this idea to corrugated boxboards was a straightforward development when the material became available at the end of the 1800s.
Cardboard Boxes For Breakfast
The invention of lightweight flaked breakfast cereals increased the use of cardboard boxes. The Kellogg Company was one of the first to use cardboard boxes as cereal cartons.
Innovation Through Corrugation
Corrugated – or pleated – paper was patented in England in 1856, and originally used as a liner in the manufacture of tall hats, but corrugated boxboard was not patented and used as a shipping material until 1871. The patent was issued to Albert Jones of New York City for a single-sided corrugated board.
Jones used the corrugated board for wrapping bottles and glass lantern chimneys prior to transportation. The first machine for producing large quantities of corrugated board was built by G. Smyth in 1874, and in the same year, Oliver Long improved upon Jones's design by inventing corrugated boards with liner sheets on both sides. This was the forerunner of the corrugated cardboard we know today. The first corrugated cardboard box manufactured in the US was in 1895. By the early 1900s, wooden crates and boxes were being replaced by corrugated paper shipping cartons. Cardboard boxes were much lighter and much easier to handle.
Whether you’re moving home, putting stuff into storage, or building a fort for the kids, there is every kind of box you could possibly need.
Evolution of Bags
Earlier brown paper bags were used as packaging material. To make things attractive plastic bags were introduced. But, as civilization became conscious of the ill effects of plastic, items like cloth were introduced for packaging or carrying material.
Cardboard is made from recycled paper and extensive use of this material for packaging helps save the use of other non-biodegradable materials; compared to heavier materials like wood or metal, cardboard is a lot lighter.
Pyramid packaging replacing square or rectangular-shaped
packaging helps in storing more packages in any given space.
Customers today are asked to pay the cost of plastic carry bags to dissuade them from using such bags which affect the environment as they are not biodegradable.
Advertisers use packaging very intelligently and aesthetically so that the product attracts the attention of prospective customers over other products in the same category. The packaging material, the written words, the shape, and size, etc are all micromanaged at the time of launching a new product.
What's your favorite bag?
Plastic bag
Cloth bag
Brown Paper Bag
Others
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