The simple cardboard box plays an important but unsung role in our modern society. It 'hard to imagine how we ever be together before they were invented, but use only together for the last hundred years have been. The story of this simple but important invention follows.
The cartons are industrial-box, which are mainly for the packaging of goods and materials for moving prefabricated. The first commercial cardboard box was produced in England in 1817 by SirMalcolm Thornhil and board first in the United States was prepared 1895th prepared
In 1900, wooden crates and cartons have been replaced by corrugated paper shipping. The advent of flaked cereals increased the use of cardboard boxes. The first use cardboard boxes, like cereal boxes were the Kellogg brothers.
In France, the cardboard box and has a history even longer. The Musée du cartonnage et de l'Imprimerie (Museum of the box) inValréas, France traces the history of the board is in the region and found that boxes have been used there since 1840 for transporting the Bombyx mori moth and its eggs from Japan to Europe by silk manufacturers. In addition, for over a century the production of cardboard boxes was a major industry in the region.
Boxes and kids
A common stereotype says that if a child is a large and expensive new toy, where is he / she in a hurrybored playing with the toy and place with the box.
Although this is usually said a little 'joke, the kids certainly love to play with the boxes, using their imagination to portray the box as an infinite variety of objects.
An example from popular culture is Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes comics. He often used a cardboard box for imaginative purposes from a "Transmogrifier" for a time machine
so widespread the reputation of the table like a toy, which2005, a cartoon was taken at the National Toy Hall of Fame. And 'one of the few non-branded toys to get honored. In addition, a toy box "house" (actually a log cabin) from a large box made for the hall has hosted in the Fort - National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.
Another use of the dark box is the stereotypical image of homeless people in a cardboard box. In 2005, Melbourne architect PeterRyan actually designed a house composed largely of cardboard.
An important point of trade, a toy for children, a home of last resort, these are just some of the roles played by the boxes in the last 200 years.
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