[HN Gopher] The egg carton traces its origins to the early 20th ...
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       The egg carton traces its origins to the early 20th century
        
       Author : magnifique
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2022-03-10 20:03 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | rcthompson wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | avnigo wrote:
         | 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!
        
       | foxhop wrote:
       | 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
        
       | robga wrote:
       | Which came first - mass produced eggs or the egg box?
        
       | JoeAltmaier wrote:
       | "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.
        
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