Editing Packaging (section)

====Paper-based packaging====
[[File:Packing salt packages.jpg|thumb|upright|Packing folding cartons of salt]]
Set-up boxes were first used in the 16th century and modern [[folding carton]]s date back to 1839.  The first [[corrugated box]] was produced commercially in 1817 in England. [[Corrugated paper|Corrugated (also called pleated) paper]] received a British patent in 1856 and was used as a liner for tall hats. Scottish-born [[Robert Gair]] invented the pre-cut [[paperboard]] box in 1890—flat pieces manufactured in bulk that folded into boxes. Gair's invention came about as a result of an accident: as a [[Brooklyn]] printer and paper-bag maker during the 1870s, he was once printing an order of seed bags, and the metal ruler, commonly used to crease bags, shifted in position and cut them. Gair discovered that by cutting and creasing in one operation he could make prefabricated paperboard boxes.<ref>{{cite book|title=Cartons, crates and corrugated board: handbook of paper and wood packaging technology|author1=Diana Twede  |author2=Susan E.M. Selke |name-list-style=amp |publisher=DEStech Publications|year=2005|isbn=978-1-932078-42-8|pages=41–42, 55–56|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kc0MSzFvrH8C}}</ref>

Commercial paper bags were first manufactured in [[Bristol]], [[England]], in 1844, and the American [[Francis Wolle]] patented a machine for automated bag-making in 1852.