[1][2] The term cardboard may refer to a variety of heavy paper-like materials, including card stock, corrugated fiberboard,[3] and paperboard.

Broad divisions of paper-based packaging materials are: There are also multiple names for containers: The first commercial paperboard (not corrugated) box is sometimes credited to the firm M. Treverton & Son[9] in England in 1817.

Gair discovered that by cutting and creasing in one operation he could make prefabricated paperboard boxes.

Applying this idea to corrugated boxboard was a straightforward development when the material became available around the turn of the twentieth century.

The patent was issued to Albert Jones of New York City for single-sided (single-face) corrugated board.

can have a post-primary life as a cheap material for the construction of a range of projects, among them being science experiments, children's toys, costumes, or insulative lining.

The Metal Gear series of stealth video games has a running gag involving a cardboard box as an in-game item, which can be used by the player to try to sneak through places without getting caught by enemy sentries.

Mass and viscosity of the enclosed air help together with the limited stiffness of boxes to absorb the energy of oncoming objects.