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Thinking AROUND the Box?

From Jeanette Torgerson on Wed, 29 Mar 2000

Could you please tell me who invented the cardboard box?

I presume this is a joke. I'll leave it to my readership to determine just who the joke is on.

In case you haven't actually read any of my work, I'm the Linux Gazette Answer Guy. I think you might have preferred to directed this to the "Georgia Pacific" Answer Guy if they had one.

However, I was curious if this could be obtained with a web search. The first promising link I found is apparently an audio file from the National Public Radio:

The Cardboard Box

http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/19991229.me.08.ram

... which I found referenced at:

AITLC Guide to Inventors & Inventions

http://tlc.ai.org/invent.htm

I also found this site:

National Inventors Hall of Fame Index to Inventions

http://www.invent.org/book/book-index.html

... but that doesn't list any inventor for the "cardboard box?"

Another good site might be:

Inventions & Inventors

http://inventors.about.com

... from which I learned that Johan Vaalar of Norway invented the paper clip in 1899

Oh well. That's as much searching as I'll do on that. Perhaps the joke is on me.

Copyright © 2000, James T. Dennis
Published in The Linux Gazette Issue 52 April 2000

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