Who invented corrugated cardboard?

I don't know if you're like me but I'm curious by nature. Last week I came back from the SAQ with my purchases contained in a cardboard box printed with the colors of Liberty School and I asked myself the following question;Who invented the cardboard that now enables us to transport just about everything we consume? So I've done a little research and I'm sharing it with you: mid-19th-century American and British clothing fashions provide clues to the answer: ladies' pleated skirts and gentlemen's top hats had a direct and indirect influence on the history of corrugated cardboard. Albert L. Jones He soon realized that it would be impossible to use straw to absorb shocks during transport, and that wrapping the vials in miles of paper would be useless.Albert L. Joneswho has a penchant for the fairer sex, suddenly has an idea: Why not take inspiration from the skirts of these ladies and pleat the paper to give it more volume? No sooner said than done: he feeds a sheet of paper into a pleating machine. The result was hardly satisfactory, as the paper was too stiff. But chance had nothing to do with it: it was the end of the American Civil War, and bronze cannons littered the ground. Albert L. Jones picks up tubes and rolls them into grooves. A masterstroke: not only was the test conclusive, but our ingenious inventor also managed to glue the corrugated paper between two smooth strips.Albert L. Jones had no idea of the revolutionary impact his discovery would have on packaging, even though he filed a patent in 1871 for the use of corrugated paper to wrap fragile bottles. Oliver Long, another American, added laminated paper for added strength and patented the process. At around the same time, the English were thinking of ways to double top-hats. They came up with the idea of folding a sheet of paper and gluing it to the inside of the hat, and they too wondered how to give it a wavy shape. In 1856, the English were the first to patent a portable machine for making corrugated cardboard, and the new material soon fascinated industrialists, who sought to automate the machines. The first mechanized corrugated cardboard factory went into operation in 1881, and soon afterwards, the first machine-made corrugated cardboard boxes rolled off the production line, attracting a growing number of users. Whether for packaging foodstuffs or consumer goods, corrugated cardboard was appreciated for its versatility, lightness and low cost. But official recognition was slow in coming. It wasn't until 1903 that the United States recognized it as a regulatory transport packaging material, and corrugated board continued to be treated as the poor relation of the packaging world. It wasn't until 1957 that it became possible to print this product in color, when flexography replaced mechanical typesetting and holography.Like their competitors, folding cartons, corrugated transport packaging can now also be used as sales packaging. Not only do they come in a variety of colors, but they can also be covered with pre-printed paper, or fitted with state-of-the-art RFID tags.It's not just packaging professionals who are interested in corrugated board. Designers are seizing on it to create light, resistant and playful furniture displays. Children's houses and other unconventional accessories are all around us today. You can do it all with corrugated cardboard. Could the ancient Egyptians and Chinese even have imagined the impact that the invention of paper would have on today's world? In their day, paper was made from papyrus, mulberry bark and bamboo. Today, the raw materials used are plant fibers, notably wood, as well as waste paper & cardboard from our bins. It wasn't until 1400 AD that the first paper mills appeared in Spain, Italy and Germany, considerably simplifying paper manufacture.Source : http://www.123cartondemenagement.com/lhistoire-du-carton-de-demenagement,fr,8,22.cfm