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<p><strong>From Jeanette Torgerson on Wed, 29 Mar 2000
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Could you please tell me who invented the cardboard box?
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I presume this is a joke. I'll leave it to my readership to
determine just who the joke is on.
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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.
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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:
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The Cardboard Box
<DD><A HREF="http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/19991229.me.08.ram"
>http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/19991229.me.08.ram</A>
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... which I found referenced at:
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AITLC Guide to Inventors & Inventions
<DD><A HREF="http://tlc.ai.org/invent.htm"
>http://tlc.ai.org/invent.htm</A>
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I also found this site:
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National Inventors Hall of Fame Index to Inventions
<DD><A HREF="http://www.invent.org/book/book-index.html"
>http://www.invent.org/book/book-index.html</A>
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... but that doesn't list any inventor for the "cardboard box?"
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Another good site might be:
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Inventions & Inventors
<DD><A HREF="http://inventors.about.com"
>http://inventors.about.com</A>
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... from which I learned that Johan Vaalar of Norway invented the
paper clip in 1899
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Oh well. That's as much searching as I'll do on that. Perhaps the
joke is on me.
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<em><p>[ The <strong>Straight Dope</strong>, which does answer those
kind of off the wall questions, is by Cecil Adams, not Jim
Dennis. And in the modern age, couldn't you guess his website
would be
<a href="http://www.straightdope.com/">www.straightdope.com</a> ?
</p><p>But the patent office actually has a search engine these days,
so maybe the search result on "cardboard box" there would be
useful to you:
</p><p><a href="http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=%22cardboard+box%22&d=pall"
>http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?
Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50
&Query=%22cardboard+box%22&d=pall</a>
</p><p>Um, and happy April. We really did receive this letter. I swear.
</p><p>-- Heather ]</p></em>
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