They wrote: "Bubble wrap was invented by mistake, when an attempt to create textured wallpaper went wrong." Yep, imagine that on your walls. Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes developed the Bubble ...

BUBBLE WRAP . Engineers Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes came up the idea for bubble wrap while working on a new type of textured wallpaper in 1957.

There’s nothing that brings out the inner kid in all of us like bubble wrap. No one can resist squeezing those plastic bubbles until they burst. I particularly like twisting a group of them and ...

London - Forget the spaceship, the satnav or the iPad - the best inventions are so seamlessly absorbed into our lives that we forget how clever they are. On Tuesday, the Science Museum launched a ...

Bubble wrap, initially designed as wallpaper in the 1950s, has become a popular packaging material known for its protective ...

Before we wrap up, here are a couple of things you might not have known about Bubble Wrap: It was originally designed to be a plastic wallpaper. The product was not a success.

In recognition of Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day, celebrated for 15 years on the last Monday of January, we talked to Sealed Air Corp., the company behind the New Jersey invention.You can ...

Frederick Bowers, an employee of the engineers' fledgling company, pitched Bubble Wrap, originally called Air Cap, to IBM in 1960. A plastic icon was born when the company bought the package ...

They wrote: "Bubble wrap was invented by mistake, when an attempt to create textured wallpaper went wrong." Yep, imagine that on your walls. READ MORE LIFE HACKS ...

Yes, this video is a bit long, especially with the ads built in. We get it, they got bills to pay. But basically in 1957 there were two inventors named Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes.