Published by admin on Wed, 04/25/2018 - 9:00am
One look at a shelf in any grocery will tell you that packaging of products has become a science. In the cereal aisle the brightly colored cardboard boxes catch our children's attention and makes them beg for a product because of the picture on the front.
This was not always so. Let's look at the beginning of the cardboard box and how it affected Wilmington.
Cardboard was invented in the early 19th century. It was used for bookmaking and to stiffen gentlemen's hats. Almost every commodity at that time was sold in bulk, glass jars or steel cans.