Inspired by the British Museum’s “Stuff That Defines Us: A History of the World in 100 Objects,” Padua360 shares with readers the origins of certain objects and how they play a role in life today.
A man named Robert Gair had the brilliant idea to take corrugated paper that two men in England created and made a box out of it. Little would Gair know that his brilliant idea would last for a long time. Everyone knows what the cardboard box is a little or big brown box that would have some sort of item in it, and to little kids the cardboard box is a fort or a robot. In 1856 the cardboard box was used to send food, or clothes to people who needed them. The cardboard box was first mass produce because of Kellogg’s who wanted to use it as put its food packaging.
Today cardboard is also used to ship food and clothes, but it also can be a huge present to some. Boxes today hold vital medicine that is needed to save someone’s life or it could be the thing a soldier needs so that he or she can remember what home is like. The cardboard box actually has changed a lot throughout the years. Now boxes can be waterproof and biodegradable. More companies today are switching to cardboard boxes because they are more eco friendly. Cardboard boxes define us because many of our necessities are shipped in them today.
