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The egg carton traces its origins to the early 20th century

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33 pointsmagnifique5 comments

Our high school did the egg drop project (design a device to drop an egg from a certain height without breaking), and I won it trivially by cutting out one section of an egg carton and wedging it inside a cardboard tube from an empty paper towel roll, with fins on one end to make sure it landed on its end. I figured that egg carton manufacturers were the experts in preventing eggs from breaking.

I won ours using a very similar design: we were given a couple of sheets of paper and some tape. I rolled one of the sheets of paper into a tube the diameter of the egg, and placed the egg snugly near the bottom end of the tube so that it would have a low center of mass. I softly crumpled the other piece of paper into a small cylinder the diameter of the tube, and placed it under the egg in the tube to be used as cushioning.

I was honestly surprised to see that such little cushioning helped it survive three 2 m drops, although it did get a hairline crack after the third drop!

It's a great design & u may reuse them _many_ times if u vertically integrate in the egg laying hen market.

If u wanna build a chicken coop, I created an artistic documentary / musical style guide to show it:

https://youtu.be/eMYV34_zRSI 24m long over 3 months (procrastinator yakshaver)

Hope u naturally vertically integrate ur protein source too! <3

"Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952), chemist, bacteriologist, and refrigeration engineer. Denied a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1892 (women weren’t allowed to receive degrees, only certificates!), she would eventually earn a PhD in chemistry from Penn in 1895 "

Speak for yourself, UPenn! The University of Iowa admitted women and awarded degrees from the day it opened in 1847.

Which came first - mass produced eggs or the egg box?

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