065 - On Stuff - Corrugated Cardboard

Howdy Zengineers! Welcome to our new series, “On Stuff.” This week’s inspiration came from driving through a neighborhood and seeing the same thing on almost every porch…cardboard boxes. We take you through the history of paper, going all the way back to papyrus, and how that led to the invention of single-sheet cardboard, finally to corrugated cardboard, and making cool stuff out of it. Some links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus#/media/File:Papyrus_bill_of_sale_donkey.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_(typeface) http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/02/invention-cardboard-box/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01/07/the-fantastically-strange-origin-of-most-coal-on-earth/ https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/news/2018/creativity-curiosity-community-on-display-during-e-week-2018/ https://engineering.virginia.edu/news/2018/06/uva-posts-nation%E2%80%99s-highest-four-year-public-engineering-school-grad-rate Become a supporter of this podcast: https://anchor.fm/zengineering-podcast/support