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ubble wrap is a packing material made from sheets of plastic that are filled with air
bubbles. The air bubbles protect fragile
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items during shipping, making bubble wrap
and similar products popular for transporting
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everything from dishes to electronics. But it
had a very unusual start.
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variety of wallpaper. After that didn t work out, they tried to market
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their invention as
insulation
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for homes and greenhouses
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. This also failed.
The invention only took off
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thanks to computer giant IBM. When IBM started shipping
computers which were very expensive and very fragile they needed something to protect
the equipment
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. Bubble wrap was a much better alternative
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to anything else on the market,
so IBM started packing its computers in the material. More companies soon followed suit
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,
and bubble wrap became the packing material of choice
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for decades.
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