the.com/corrugated cardboard
Paper that lifts weights by hiding muscle in its waves.
means Cardboard made from a fluted (wavy) paper layer glued between flat liners, which makes it stiff and strong without adding much weight.
from From Latin corrugare, 'to wrinkle together' (com- 'together' + rugare, 'to wrinkle,' from ruga, 'wrinkle'). The corrugating idea shows up in the 1800s, first as a way to stiffen fabric and hat linings, then paper — a patent for corrugated paper packaging material appeared in the mid-1800s in England, and the sturdier paperboard-lined version we know as cardboard boxes developed in the decades after in the US. The word just describes the ridges; the industry built an empire of shipping boxes on top of a wrinkle.
- invented for
- lining tall hats in 1856
- secret
- fluted middle layer resists crushing, not thickness
- flute sizes
- named A through F, oldest largest
- recyclability
- reusable up to seven times before fibers weaken