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unusual facts about Robert Gair


1890 in the United States

The corrugated cardboard box is invented by Robert Gair, a Brooklyn printer who developed production of paper-board boxes in 1879.


Folding carton

Although Charles Henry Foyle is described by some as the "inventor" of the paper carton, mass production of the cartons was invented, partly by accident, at the Robert Gair Company in Brooklyn, New York.


see also

Clan Gayre

Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg (original name Robert Gair), the father of the present chief, created the clan after World War II.