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Summer 2020 | Volume 26, Issue 2
Marc Chavannes (above) and Alfred Fielding invented bubble wrap in 1957 as a high-end wallpaper.
Emily Prokop is the author of The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects (Mango Publishing), from which this essay was adapted.
When American soldiers returned…