Bubble Wrap Was a $10 Billion Mistake

In 1957, two engineers in a New Jersey garage sealed two sheets of plastic together and trapped air inside. They weren't making packaging. They were making wallpaper. It would later be called Bubble Wrap, heres how it was a $10 Billion Dollar Mistake... Nobody wanted it on their walls. Then it flopped again as greenhouse insulation. They came up with hundreds of other uses, and nobody wanted those either. So how did a failed wallpaper end up in every box on Earth, inside a company that sold for over $10 billion? And why was the satisfying pop never part of the plan? This is the story of bubble wrap, before it got boring. #bubblewrap #history #inventions