- Cardboard box
Cardboard boxes are industrially prefabricated
box es, which are primarily used forpackaging goods and materials. "Cardboard box" is a misnomer, as what most people know as cardboard boxes are actually made ofcorrugated fiberboard , notcardboard .Cardboard boxes can be recycled to produce paper, or given a post-primary life as a cheap material for the construction of a range of projects, among them being science experiments, children's
toy s,costume s and insulative lining.Living in a cardboard box is stereotypically associated with
homelessness .ref|iowan However in 2005,Melbourne architect Peter Ryan designed a house composed largely of cardboard.ref|obrienHistory
The first commercial cardboard box was produced in England in 1817.ref|hook The first cardboard box manufactured in the
United States was made in 1895.ref|farusa By 1900, wooden crates and boxes were being replaced bycorrugated paper shippingcarton s. The advent offlaked cereal s increased the use of cardboard boxes. The first to use cardboard boxes as cereal cartons was the Kellogg brothers.Cardboard box manufacture in France
The Musée du Cartonnage et de l'Imprimerie (Museum of the Cardboard Box) in
Valréas ,France traces the history of cardboard box making in the region.ref|geary Cardboard boxes have been used there since 1840 for transporting theBombyx mori moth and its eggs fromJapan toEurope bysilk manufacturers, and for more than a century the manufacture of cardboard boxes was a major industry in the area.Fact|date=September 2007Cardboard boxes and children
Eartheasy recommendsref|eartheasy "the simple, basic, unglamorous, glorious cardboard box" as a present for young children, citing as its merits the fact that it doesn't matter if it breaks or wears out.A common cliché is that, if presented with a large and expensive new
toy , a child will quickly become bored with the toy and play with the box instead. Although this is usually said somewhat jokingly, children certainly enjoy playing with boxes, using their imagination to portray the box as an infinite variety of objects. One example of this from popular culture is Calvin of theCalvin and Hobbes comic strip, who often used a cardboard box for imaginative purposes from a "transmogrifier " to a time machine.So prevalent is the cardboard box's reputation as a plaything that in 2005 a cardboard box was added to the
National Toy Hall of Fame , one of very few non-brand-specific toys to be honoured with inclusion. As a result, a toy "house" (actually alog cabin ) made from a large cardboard box was added to the Hall, housed at theStrong - National Museum of Play inRochester, New York .References
#cite news|title=When a cardboard box is 'home'|first=Danielle|last=Stratton-Coulter|publisher=The Daily Iowan|date=
2005-04-20 |url=http://www.dailyiowan.com/media/paper599/news/2005/04/20/Metro/When-A.Cardboard.Box.Is.home-930741.shtml
#cite news|title=Out of the box|first=Kerrie|last=O'Brien|date=2005-06-08 |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/News/Out-of-the-box/2005/06/07/1118123836379.html|publisher=The Age
#cite web|accessdate=2005-10-26|url=http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/0133.html|title=Paper and paper products|work=A History of Packaging|author=Paula Hook and Joe E. Heimlich
#cite web|accessdate=2005-10-26|url=http://www.farusa.dk/en/arkiv2.shtml|title=Corrugated cardboard - packaging that has been used for almost 150 years|work=Farusa Packaging
#cite news|title=Thinking Inside the Box: Discover the wonderful world of cardboard at the Museum of the Cardboard Box|given=James|surname=Geary|url=http://www.time.com/time/europe/webonly/londoneye/2000/10/cardboard.html|publisher=Time (magazine)|date=2000-10-13
#cite web|accessdate=2005-10-26|url=http://eartheasy.com/give_tips_for_susgivg.htm|title=Tips for Sustainable Giving|work=Eartheasy
#cite web | author=House, Matthew | title=Metal Gear Solid – Overview | url=http://www.allgame.com/cg/agg.dll?p=agg&sql=1:14082 | publisher=Allgame | accessmonthday=October 22 | accessyear=2006Further reading
* — Different cardboard box fefco styles explained and with pictures
* — severalHalloween costumes that can be made with cardboard boxes andpaint
* — six projects using cardboard boxes as children's playthingsee also
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The Adventure of the Cardboard Box " (aSherlock Holmes story)
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